#63: Hugh Grant Busted For Soliciting Prostitute
By the mid-1990s, Hugh Grant had weaseled his way into our hearts, thanks to his bumbling courtship of Andie MacDowell in Four Weddings and a Funeral. Throw bombshell girlfriend Liz Hurley into the mix, and Hugh had it all. Imagine the shock when he stopped stammering long enough to be arrested in the company of Hollywood sex worker Divine Brown in June 1995. She was polishing Mr. Grant’s knob at the time. Overnight, he went from Hugh Star to Lewd Grant–but his Oxford education didn’t go to waste.
Grant went on Jay Leno to tell all. “I think you know in life what’s a good thing to do and what’s a bad thing, and I did a bad thing,” he said. “And there you have it.” Hugh also served up mea-culpa on Larry King. “I don’t have excuses,” he shrugged. The PR offensive worked. Fans held up billboards reading, “I would have paid you, Hugh.”
Still reeling from the incident, Grant and Hurley split up five years later. Grant’s career hasn’t been the same since, and he still cries himself to sleep thinking about films like About a Boy, Love Actually, and Bridget Jones’s Diary. Last year, Hugh had another run-in with the law after he attacked the paparazzi with baked beans. — Charles Bottomley
After the jump, watch Hugh sing.
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August 14th, 2008 at 9:07 am
I am a fan of Hugh Grant, the person, the actor. This whole scandal list thing is CRAP, okay? But I do admit to enjoying watching the YouTube of ‘POP GOES MY HEART’ which has made me literally laugh out loud every single time I’ve ever seen it. It’s such a hilarious (and accurate) send up of all those silly MTV music videos from the 80s.
I have no clue as to why the nimrod who wrote the “scandal” description about Hugh says he “cries every night” over his films ‘About A Boy’ and ‘Love Actually’, etc. Those are WONDERFUL films, both of them—as well as the Bridget Jones duo, and personally, I loved the satire in ‘American Dreamz’.
Critics are just soooooooooooooooooo LAME. You can’t CREATE anything YOURSELF, can you, but you can sit on your !@&!$@+*^&*)_+* es and criticize. Go get stuffed, critics. And the same goes for AOL, period. Shame on you for this entire “scandal list” BS.
There are Terrible, truly ATROCIOUS things happening in our world—-yet we’re all supposed to sit around dwelling on the ups and downs and human error of celebrities?
That makes US pathetic.
I looked this up just to add my statement that making entertainment out of people’s mistakes and shadow sides is no great reflection on the intelligence or hearts and souls of any of us.