Posted by: Husam Asi on 2012-03-08
As I wait for Huge Grant in a room in Las Vegas’s Treasure Island Hotel, I hear a commotion in the outside hall. Stepping out of the room to investigate, I see a bemused Huge Grant surrounded by a crowd of excited middle-age women, who have apparently stormed out of their breast cancer conference when they glimpsed him passing by.
Remarkably, the star of Bridget Jones Diaries, who’s known of his disdain of the culture of celebrity, poses cheerfully for photographs with his swooning fans as his face is showered by their flashing cameras. Grant has been making bold headlines recently, not for starring in movies, but for his relentless campaign against the British tabloids and becoming the unofficial spokesman for the universal outrage directed at them.
After a decades-long combative, and sometimes litigious, relationship with the tabloid press, Grant turned the table against them by discreetly recording incriminating admissions by former journalist, Paul McMullen, which he penned in an article for The New Statesman last April. Titled “The Bugger, Bugged”, the article exposed long-standing ethical violations, including phone hacking, committed by the News of the World and other media outlets, allegedly with the knowledge of politicians and even the police.
“All the phone hacking stuff has been swept under the carpet because everyone’s been too frightened either politically or in terms of their personal reputation to confront the power of those tabloid beasts,” he says.
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