Celebrity comebacks Hugh Grant Piers Morgan Piers Morgan picked a fight with Hugh Grant and suffered a humiliating technical knock-out John Plunkett . Updated January 27th, 2025 Share Tweet As well as being a fabulous actor and (surely confirmed by now?) national treasure, Hugh Grant is also well known for his work as a press reform campaigner. Grant, criminally overlooked for an Oscar nomination for his most recent role in horror flick Heretic, called for a criminal investigation into the owner of the Sun after Prince Harry’s recent legal settlement in which it agreed to pay “substantial damages” and admitted, for the first time, ‘incidents of unlawful activity’ at the paper.
“I have some sympathy, when I’m in a generous mood, for politicians terrified of the Murdochs.” Actor Hugh Grant, who settled a privacy case against NGN last year, reacts to the Culture Secretary's comments that the government will rule out a reopening of the Leveson Inquiry. — BBC Radio 4 Today (@BBCr4today) January 24, 2025 This sort of thing doesn’t go down well with former tabloid editor Piers Morgan, who’s had been with Grant for some time now and accused the actor of ‘hypocrisy’.
REMINDER: Hugh Grant took many millions of pounds from Rupert Murdoch to make movies for him. #hypocrite https://t.co/sJ7NpcPrSW — Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) January 24, 2025 To which Grant, as we’ve already written about , had the perfect response.
Bullshit. The last time I worked for a Mur.
