 “CAN we go next door to the bedroom?â€
That was Shane Warne’s question to the Ultimo bra tycoon Michelle Mone in her suite in London’s five-star Dorchester Hotel on February 15 last year.
Mone told Daily Mail that she was “fixed up†with Warne, now 45, through a mutual friend, cricket commentator and former England cricket captain Michael Vaughan.
She also shares details in her soon-to-be published memoir My Fight To The Top,
“Since Shane was in Australia and I was in the UK, we couldn’t meet straight away and spent two months constantly texting and chatting over the phone,†43-year-old Mone, who is stepping down as CEO of MJM International, writes in the extracts published in the Daily Mail.
“He was good fun, and although I felt the odd text message from him was a bit too explicit, I was excited about seeing him when he flew to London in February 2014.â€
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Mone, who had just ended her 22-year marriage to Michael, said she received a text message from Warne that he had arrived a day early to “sort some things out†with former fiancee Liz Hurley.
“That happened to be Valentine’s Day, so my mind raced as I wondered whether he was two-timing me,†writes Mone.
“The following evening, I got all dressed up in my suite at the Dorchester Hotel, before receiving a text at 7.45pm, 15 minutes after he was supposed to meet me, saying he couldn’t make it.â€
Mone said she was furious and her anger only increased when she saw pictures of Warne and Hurley in the morning newspapers.
“Later that day, when he asked if he could come and see me, I almost said no, but he insisted so vehemently that nothing was going on between them that I gave him the benefit of the doubt.â€
Mone agreed to meet Warne in her suite in the hotel.
“Finally, after all that build-up, he walked in. We opened a bottle of champagne and talked, but it wasn’t the sort of conversation I’d expected. He chain-smoked about 35 cigarettes — and I hate smoking — and after about an hour he got restless.â€
“Can we go next door to the bedroom?†he asked suggestively.
“I made it clear that I was not that kind of girl and, besides, though he’s a nice, fun guy, he wasn’t my type in the end. He was a bit too wild for me.â€
Mone said the Warne episode taught her something.
“Never again will I start texting a guy without meeting him first because, quite frankly, Shane wasted two months of my life.â€
