Things have not always run smoothly in the glittering career of Hugh Grant. He tells an Oxford literary magazine about five embarrassing failures in his life.
When he was 12 he tried to throw a cricket ball back to the bowler at Lord’s but it flew backwards into the crowd. Later he wore his mother’s red anorak when he was a teenage motorbike messenger and no one would talk to him. He once failed in a TV adaptation of a Barbara Cartland novel because he had a squeaky voice, and in a Spanish- made film about Lord Byron his hair perm was too curly.
But the worst disaster occurred when Liz Hurley made him sing a duet with her, as Frank and Nancy Sinatra, while they were on holiday in the South of France.
“A band was playing to a large crowd,” he tells the autumn edition of Arete, a learned quarterly for Oxford graduates such as himself. “It’s hard now to imagine how I allowed myself to be persuaded by my then girlfriend to go up with her and sing Something Stupid. In harmony. I might have been fractionally drunk but I remember a moment of sudden and terrifying sobriety, followed by blind panic, and then us starting so far off key that the band had to stop and start again.
“This happened three times. In the end we were told to leave the stage. When we got back to our friends we found they’d fled.”
Arete’s editor Craig Raine writes encouragingly: “Hugh recently starred in the Leveson Inquiry into phone hacking with great success.”
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