Liz Hurley held up a ferry for 20 minutes – because she threw a strop when staff told her she couldn’t take her booze on board. The actress was attending a celebration party for ooet champagne’s 120th anniversary on Liberty Island in New York when she joined other guests trying to get a ferry back to oanhatten. According to an insider, the `Austin Powers’ star refused to give up her magnum of bubbly and three glasses, before finally relenting. “Everyone else graciously agreed to abide by the rules,” the source adds. [4 october 2006]