Hugh Grant

'A very poor idea': Julia Roberts rejected Richard Curtis's proposed Notting Hill divorce sequel

While Roberts put the kibosh on Richard Curtis's proposal, Hugh Grant was happy to prove the lie of a happy ending for his 'despicable' character.

New Bridget Jones film very sad, says Hugh Grant

Bridget Jones fans have long adored the films for their cringe-worthy, hilarious and heartwarming scenes. But Hugh Grant has warned that the fourth instalment in the franchise - due out on Valentine's Day next year - will have a very different tone.

Hugh Grant had one condition for starring in new Bridget Jones movie

Hugh Grant has revealed he only agreed to be in Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy after rewriting his part.

The actor, 64, is set to reprise his role as the titular character's womanising ex-boyfriend Daniel Cleaver in the fourth installment of the rom-com franchise based on the books by Helen Fielding, but says he "wasn't crazy" about what script writers originally had planned for him.

Rewatching Notting Hill, the truly unbelievable part is Hugh Grant's house

The social world that the film depicted has not aged well.

The very specific appeal of Hugh Grant's romantic declarations

To celebrate 25 years of Notting Hill, Yasmin Omar looks back at how its star has delivered heart-soaring amorous speeches over the years, with all the attendant fumbling and eyelash-fluttering.

Review: Death To 2021, Netflix

Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe end-of-year reports for the BBC were essential viewing. Last year though he did a caustic commentary for Netflix, Death To 2020, without appearing onscreen himself, which didn't quite have the same sardonic sucker punches. Not for English viewers anyway. It seemed to be aimed at an American audience. And now with Death To 2021, there is a further shift.

Where are the cast of Bridget Jones are now?

It's exactly 20 years since Renée Zellweger burst on to our screens as our favourite chain-smoking, big-knicker-wearing 'thirty-something' singleton in Bridget Jones's Diary. And while film sequels Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason and Bridget Jones's Baby went on to reveal what happened to hapless Bridget and her love interests Mark Darcy, played by Colin Firth, and Daniel Cleaver, played by Hugh Grant, just where are the original blockbuster's cast now?

Hugh Grant keen on Paddington 3 baddie team-up

Hugh Grant envisions a Big Bad team-up between himself and Nicole Kidman in Paddington 3.

Hugh Grant almost played PM in The National Anthem

Hugh Grant, who played the Prime Minister in Love Actually, almost played Black Mirror's Prime Minister who has sex with a pig.

Many had high hopes when they saw the name Charlie Brooker linked to Netflix and a review of 2020: hopes of a Screenwipe of sorts, with frissons of Black Mirror. What we got in Death To 2020 was what some might call politely a salmagundi; what others might describe rudely as a mess.

One problem was that, for all the talent involved, there was no Charlie Brooker talking us drily through. It was as if a Netflix algorithm had somehow conflated this with the US show Saturday Night Live, which, through repetitively pointing out weekly since 2016 that Donald Trump was thick and nasty, famously brought about his 2018 impeachment and subsequent bell tower death.

Lisa Kudrow, Samuel L Jackson, Hugh Grant - all terrific, given the bad lines they were given. Kudrow's spokesperson was funny the first time she challenged with an airy defiance the existence of recorded facts. By the seventh repetition of exactly the same gag... not so much. How many ways are there to say that Joe Biden is "old", and how screamingly amusing will that saying-so of an established fact ever have been in the first place? After the year we wish never was, the recap we wish never was.