Model actress Elizabeth Hurley is working on a reality television show in which viewers will join her and her non-resident Indian husband Arun Nayar on their 400-acre Gloucestershire farm.

"I know that people always imagine me with perfect hair and stuck in high heels since I was a child, but that is not who I am, at least not all the time," the 43-year-old Estee Lauder model said.

"Even my husband got a surprise the first time that he saw me in the country.

"He found me in some Wellingtons covered in mud, with holes in my jersey, and he thought that I was playing a joke on him.

"But we English are not as elegant as we seem," she said.

She had hosted the inaugural season of the fashion show Project Catwalk in 2006.