Hugh Grant
- Profession: Actor
- Place/Date of Birth: Hammersmith, London, 09 September 2020
- Assiociated with: Jemima Khan, Liz Hurley
The actor has enjoyed a successful year, with his comedy About A Boy earning a Golden Globe nomination.
Hungry Hugh - 19/11/02 Courtesy of Heat Magazine.
Hugh Grant has a cunning way of getting his favourite takeaway without getting vaught by the paparazzi. He calls his local Chinese restaurant and says. "You know the arrangement." Then they leave it at the backdoor of his house.
Hugh’s a stylish man then! - 17/10/02
Hugh Grant has picked up the award for Best dressed Leading Man at the VH1 Fashion Awards 2002.
As he stood up to collect the trophy - made in the shape of an upside-down fashion model, he made a startling admission. "I’ve never been aroused by an award before, but I am semi-aroused..."
"I’d like to say this is great, I’m very pleased, I feel guilty - I feel like a fraud really. I’ve never felt I had any style at all."
The glitzy bash was held at New York’s famous Radio City Music Hall.
About a bra - 03/09/02
Hugh Grant says he can’t stand women wearing shawls because "men can’t see their shoulders and breasts, and that’s what we want to see". Another no - no is skin coloured bras and knickers. "I can hardly forgive women who wear skin-coloured underwears." He reveals. Courtesy of Heat Magazine.
Hugh-different film same character-26/04/01
Hugh Grant surprisingly is to star in a romantic comedy co-starring Cameron Diaz. The film will be based around and about Wimbledon entitled Two Weeks in Love, it will be made by Working Title, the production company responsible for Notting Hill and Bridget Jones’s Diary. Cameron Diaz will star as the English actor’s romantic interest. Grant is to play an ageing journeyman pro who enjoys a relationship with an Anna Kournikova-style tennis nymph. Grant will play a British player who miraculously finds his way to the final as his girlfriend’s form falters causing major friction in the relationship.
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In 1995, Hugh became the scandal of the year by hiring a prostitute, Divine Brown, to perform certain acts in the privacy of his automobile. His girlfriend, Liz Hurley was not amused and although she stuck by him through the scandal they finally called it quits in 2000 after 13 years together. The Divine Brown incident could well have been the making of Hugh Grant though, after this mishap he was cast in many more films and became a British icon here and in the States.
Although many of his films at this time were dubious to say the least, their ratings were bouyed by his popularity and in 1999 he made a real comeback. Notting Hill was a return to form for Grant, made by the same team that first shot to fame with Four Weddings...it confirmed his status and saw his star on the rise again. Following up his success with About A boy and Bridget Jone’s Diary which saw him departing from his usual role as bumbling English fool and made him a whole new type of heartthrob.
He has also starred in Love Actually as the Prime Minister, which saw much speculation as to whether Brits would actually prefer Grant as the leader of their country. Hugh remains a bachelor, despite rumours of a fling with co-star Sandra Bullock, and remains very close friends with Liz Hurley with whom he owns Simian Productions.
(Updated April 04)
August 2007