The Welsh beauty has had to order her 67-year-old spouse away from her clothes and jewellery while he is preparing for his new role as gay entertainer Liberace.

The `Intolerable Cruelty` actress said: "Michael has been in the bedroom and started putting on my diamonds and things.

"I`m like, `Michael, please take off those pants. Take `em off baby. Come on, give me back my rocks.`"

Michael - who battled throat cancer in late 2010 has been going to great lengths to prepare for playing Liberace in Steve Soderbergh`s `Behind the Candelabra` and though his wife is enjoying his playing of the piano, she is tired of the way he has rearranged their home.

Catherine - who has children Dylan, 11, and nine-year-old Carys with the star - is quoted by the Daily Star newspaper as saying: "He winks at me while he plays. But I`m sick of having breakfast by candelabra."

Matt Damon will star as Liberace`s gay lover in the forthcoming biopic.
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