{"id":374079,"date":"2025-08-26T04:50:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T04:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/374079\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T04:50:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T04:50:27","slug":"elizabeth-hurley-breaks-her-silence-on-maya-jamas-odd-decision-to-copy-her-iconic-versace-safety-pin-dress-at-the-mtv-europe-music-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/374079\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Hurley breaks her silence\u00a0 on Maya Jama’s ‘odd’ decision to copy her iconic Versace safety pin dress at the MTV Europe Music Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elizabeth Hurley has admitted she found it ‘odd’ when Maya Jama<\/a> ‘copied’ her\u00a0iconic Versace safety pin dress for the 2024 MTV Europe Music Awards<\/a> in November.<\/p>\n

Maya’s racy dress boasted cut-outs, held together with giant gold safety pins, and almost identical to the iconic Versace number that shot Elizabeth<\/a>\u00a0to fame.<\/p>\n

Elizabeth<\/a>, 60, went from an unknown star to making\u00a0headlines around the world, when she wore the \u00a33,000 plunging gown to the 1994 premiere of Four Weddings And A Funeral, with then-boyfriend Hugh Grant<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And exactly three decades later, Maya brought the career-making gown back to the red carpet, ensuring she stood out from the crowd.<\/p>\n

Learning of the link, Liz, 60, told the Sun: ‘I mean, to me, it’s really odd but it’s actually kind of fabulous.<\/p>\n

‘Over the years, people have said to me, it’s the dress’s 20th birthday, or it’s the dress’s 25th, and I’m like, this is insane.’<\/p>\n

\"Elizabeth \"Her <\/p>\n

Elizabeth Hurley has admitted she found it ‘odd’ when Maya Jama ‘copied’ her iconic Versace safety pin dress for the 2024 MTV European Music Awards in November\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Maya's <\/p>\n

Maya’s racy dress boasted cut-outs, held together with giant gold safety pins, and almost identical to the iconic Versace number that shot Elizabeth to fame\u00a0<\/p>\n

The dress hugged the presenter’s statuesque frame as she posed up a storm for the cameras, teaming it with pair strappy stilettos.<\/p>\n

Allowing her eye-catching outfit to do all the work, Maya opted for no jewellery, and styled her raven hair in soft waves.<\/p>\n

Completing her striking look, the beauty sported a flawless palette of makeup, including winged eyeliner and a pink lip.<\/p>\n

Speaking in a Disney+ Vogue documentary airing last year, Liz shared how she came to wear such a risque dress for the evening – and how she dealt with the huge reaction.<\/p>\n

She said: ‘I must have been photographed 800,000 billion times that night. The next day we were on the front page of every newspaper, we were like ‘What the hell is this?’.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘I remember I was just looking at it thinking ‘What’ then going ‘Well it was actually a pretty daring dress wasn’t it?’.’<\/p>\n

On how she came to wear such a huge designer so early in her career, Liz explained: ‘I knew I had to have a dress and somebody said ‘I know someone who’s got a PR firm and they might be able to help you’ so on the day of we rang and said ‘Do you have anything’ and they said ‘We’ve got one dress’.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘And I was like ‘Well alright I’d love to borrow it, if I can get into it.’ So I went on the tube to get the dress, which was handed to me in a little white plastic bag.’<\/p>\n

\"Learning <\/p>\n

Learning of the link, Liz, 60, told the Sun: ‘I mean, to me, it’s really odd but it’s actually kind of fabulous’\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"The <\/p>\n

The British actress (pictured in October 2022), 59, made headlines when she stepped out for the 1994 premiere with her then-boyfriend Hugh Grant in a daring cut-out dress<\/p>\n

The actress and model took the Tube to pick up her infamous black Versace number held together with large gold safety pieces.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She said: ‘I’d never heard the name Versace before and it looked pretty precarious.<\/p>\n

‘But I remember touching my toes and stretching up in it, and nothing moved, so I galloped down the stairs and that was that.’<\/p>\n

She adds: ‘The next day we were on the front page of every newspaper and I’m like, ‘What the hell is this?’.<\/p>\n

‘I hadn’t really realised how daring a dress it was.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Hurley has admitted she found it ‘odd’ when Maya Jama ‘copied’ her\u00a0iconic Versace safety pin dress for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[92,29986,2000,299,5187,1995,10219,813],"class_list":{"0":"post-374079","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-dailymail","9":"tag-elizabeth-hurley","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-hugh-grant","14":"tag-maya-jama","15":"tag-tvshowbiz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115093269743209407","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}