Hugh Grant takes swipe at the British press

Hugh Grant takes swipe at the British press

After allegedly claiming that the Bristish newpaper have been creeping into his private life, Hugh Grant has finally testified and ensured that he goes down with a fight.

The phone-hacking saga is set to roll on with the actor claiming that his he is livid with the amount of non sense he has taken over the years, which consequently also led him to break off his relationship with Jemima Khan due to constant media attention.

While the defunct News of the World refuting the claims, Grant took a scathing attack the Mail and wants to hear their side as well – the source which they claim to have used rather than phone hacking.

"I’d love to hear what their source was if it wasn’t phone hacking," he said.

After all he himself later admitted that he does not have to protect himself after being involved in high- profile blunders over the years.

“I don’t have a good name to protect. I’m the man who was arrested with a prostitute and the film (Four Weddings) still made lots of money.”

“It’s fine to hate me. It’s been extremely fashionable for a long time and that’s what I expect in this country. All the campaigning I have done recently about the abuse by some sections of the British press is emphatically not motivated by when I was arrested
in 1995. I expected there to be a press storm and I have no quarrel with it.”

“They have no mercy and no ethics. The bounty is high.”

With privacy invasion still high in British, the Actor has called on the support for his endeavors against the Media and hopes to ensure that justice prevails in what he deems as unfair and illegal.

"Most shocking is that this has been allowed to go on for so long with no one putting their hand up and saying stop," he said,  

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Posted by Zubair Saleem on Nov 23 2011. Filed under Entertainment. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry