Liz Hurley's in-laws fuming over shabby treatment

By Stone Martindale Apr 8, 2007, 17:38 GMT

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Has Arun Nayar's Father disowned his son for daughter-in-law Liz Hurley's alleged bad behavior?  Apparently the answer is yes, revealed in a report in the DNA After Hours report of India, and an interview with the elder Nayar's in the UK Mail.

The wealthy Mumbai businessman Vinod Nayar has reportedly decided to disown his sons Nikhil and Arun after the perceived "shabby treatment" he and his wife received from new daughter-in-law, Elizabeth Hurley.

“My wife and I were publicly humiliated and treated like social outcasts for the sake of a £2 million (Hello) magazine deal. We were pushed into the background like poor relations,” says Nayar.

“I believe it was expressly done on Elizabeth’s orders,” he says in an exclusive interview with the Mail.

Nayar and his second wife Joanne blame Liz for what they deem her "obsessive appetite for lucrative publicity" as to the incorrect protocol and insulting manners that they claim they suffered, due to Hurley's behavior in her multi-wedding extravaganzas in two separate countries.

“Maybe they didn’t really want my side of the family there. They didn’t even have the good manners to invite my 87-year-old mother,” says the 66-year-old Nayar. “I once thought Liz was a lovely, unspoiled woman, but now I see that she is a very hard person. It was important for her to get celebrity faces there. That’s what the Hello! deal was about. She was fulfilling her contractual obligation,” he said to the Sunday Mail.

The bad blood seem to lay the most between Mother-in-law Joanne and Liz. 

“...Liz and Arun have treated us very shabbily. I once had a very good relationship with my sons. When Liz came along, I happily welcomed her into the fold and this is the way she has repaid me,” said Nayar.

Nayar cites Liz's preference for her European friends, and the ultmate insult of being physically ejected from the mandap in front of all the wedding guests. Allegedly he was led away by son Nikhil, who threatened to call security guards if he didn’t leave.

“There was some pushing and shoving, then I saw him collapse on a chair. I thought he might be having a heart attack and rushed over. I begged him not to make a scene and tried to calm him down. Then he was asked to leave by Arun’s brother,” says Joanne to the Mail.

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