From a bachelor to a household man! Hugh Grant as soon as stated he didn’t consider in monogamy — however that was earlier than he married Anna Eberstein.
The Love Actually star tied the knot in 2018, however his love life has been a subject of dialog for the reason that Nineteen Eighties. Grant made headlines in 1987 when he and Remando Al Viento costar Elizabeth Hurley started relationship — and once more in 1995 when he cheated on her.
The duo had been one in all the hottest couples in England earlier than they known as it quits in 2000 after 13 years collectively. Their relationship, nonetheless, wasn’t with out its faults. In 1995, Grant was caught having an affair with intercourse employee Divine Brown, which he later attributed to his insecurity as an actor. (He and Hurley overcame the dishonest scandal however in the end known as it quits in 2000.)
“I was about to launch my first Hollywood film – my timing was impeccable. My problem was – that was my first Hollywood film and I’d just been to see it,” the Rewrite actor defined throughout a March 2021 appearance on Marc Maron’s “WTF” podcast. “The film was about to come out a week or two after that, and I had a bad feeling about it. I went to see a screening. Everyone in it was brilliant, but I was so atrocious that I was not in a good frame of mind.”
Regardless of Grant’s indiscretion — and their break up — the U.Ok. native “remains my best friend to this day, but … he really used to annoy me,” Hurley stated throughout a March 2015 look on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen. “I love him, but he’s very annoying.”
Grant echoed his ex’s sentiments during a 2018 interview on The Jess Cagle show. “We’re like brother and sister,” he confessed. “I think it’s partly because we went from zero to somewhere together, and we went through terrible years at the beginning when neither of us had any work, living in a tiny flat. It was quite bonding.”
Whereas Grant’s relationship with Hurley has stayed intact through the years, his street to being a married man was a bit of extra advanced. The Notting Hill actor raised eyebrows within the mid-2000s when he welcomed three youngsters again to again with two completely different ladies.
The 2-time Emmy nominee turned a first-time dad to daughter Tabitha in fall 2011 together with his then ex-girlfriend Tinglan Hong. One 12 months later, he and Eberstein welcomed their son, John. Just a few brief months after that, Grant and Hong turned mother and father to son Felix in February 2013.
Regardless of being in his 50s, the Gents actor selected to embrace fatherhood and all it needed to supply.
“It’s made me much nicer,” Grant exclusively told Us Weekly in February 2015 of turning into a dad or mum. “One of my kids is very obsessed with saying goodbye — he’s only 2 — to everyone, including the man who delivers the groceries, whoever he might be. He has to have a hug and a kiss and I find that very charming.”
Whereas the Paddington star was excited to be a dad, he was nonetheless not sure about saying “I do” to associate Eberstein, whom he went on to welcome two more children with between 2015 and 2018.
“If you ask me the question, ‘Do I think human beings are meant to be in 40-year-long monogamous, faithful relationships?’ No, no,” Grant told Howard Stern on his SiriusXM radio show in August 2016. “Whoever said they were? I think there’s something unromantic about marriage. You’re closing yourself off.”
Two years later, the Undoing alum wed Eberstein. He confessed throughout a June 2018 Today show appearance that marriage is “really nice. I can’t pretend it isn’t.” Grant added: “I should have done it before! But I’m just lucky, I’m lucky. I’ve got a great wife. I love her, yeah.”
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