1. Hugh Grant is patron of the Fynvola Foundation, named after his late mother; the foundation supports the Lady Dane Farmhouse, a home in Faversham for adults with learning disabilities.
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2. In 2011, the BBC apologised after Hugh Grant made an offhand joke about homosexuality and rugby when he was invited into the commentary box during coverage of an England vs Scotland game at Twickenham Stadium.
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4. In 2011, Hugh Grant appeared at the Liberal Democrats' conference on the News International phone-hacking scandal, where he briefly met then-party leader Nick Clegg.
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11. Hugh Grant said, in a written statement, that he took the action because: "I was tired of the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday papers publishing almost entirely fictional articles about my private life for their own financial gain.
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17. The New Yorker stated "Hugh Grant gives a brilliant performance as Thorpe, whose arrogance, charm, and profoundly evasive nature he captures with subtlety.
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19. In 2016, Hugh Grant played St Clair Bayfield, partner of the title character, in the film Florence Foster Jenkins, directed by Stephen Frears and starring Meryl Streep.
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21. Hugh Grant starred as the acerbic host of an American Idol-like reality show where, according to Caryn James of the New York Times, "nothing is real.
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22. Hugh Grant was, according to the Washington Post, fitting as "a cruel, manipulative cad, hiding behind the male god's countenance that he knows all too well".
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23. Roger Ebert thought, "Hugh Grant is wrong for the role [and] strikes one wrong note and then another", whereas Kenneth Turan, writing in the Los Angeles Times, said, "If he'd been on the Titanic, fewer lives would have been lost.
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26. Hugh Grant portrayed a bitchy, supercilious director of a repertory company in post-World War II Liverpool.
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28. Hugh Grant appointed his then-girlfriend, Elizabeth Hurley, as the head of development to look for prospective projects.
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33. Hugh Grant spent his childhood summers shooting and hunting with his grandfather in Scotland.
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34. Hugh Grant emerged as a prominent critic of the conduct of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation during the News International phone hacking scandal.
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35. Hugh Grant is known for appearing in period pieces such as The Remains of the Day, Sense and Sensibility (1995) and Florence Foster Jenkins (2016).
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