Hugh Grant & ‘Bridget Jones’

Hugh Grant & ‘Bridget Jones’, Hugh Grant has admitted the third Bridget Jones movie is still in doubt because a number of screenplays have failed to hit the “bullseye”.

The Brit showed off his nasty side playing Daniel Cleaver opposite Renee Zellweger and Colin Firth in the first two films, which were both huge hits at the box office.

Reports have suggested all three stars are gearing up for a third installment, but Grant reveals they are still to sign any contracts as the draft storylines have not been up to scratch.

He tells Total Film magazine, “I did like playing Daniel Cleaver, but there is no definite part three. None of the three of us have signed up yet. There’s been a number of drafts that have had great things in them but haven’t quite hit the bullseye.

“But they’re working on it again now with yet another writer, as soon as they get to a good point we will do it, I’m sure. It’s just that it does have to be significantly reinvented.”

Hugh Grant

Hugh Grant, Actor Hugh Grant told a London courtroom on Monday about the dark side of celebrity life, describing mysterious break-ins, leaked medical details and hacked voice mails – and laying blame on the entire tabloid press, not just the now-shuttered News of the World.

Grant’s testimony to a judge-led media ethics inquiry capped a tough day for Britain’s beleaguered press. Earlier, the parents of a murdered schoolgirl whose phone was targeted by the tabloid described how the hacking had given them false hope that their daughter was still alive.

Grant said he believes his phone was hacked by Britain’s Mail on Sunday tabloid – the first time he has implicated a newspaper not owned by media mogul Rupert Murdoch in the wrongdoing.

The actor said a 2007 story about his romantic life in the paper, owned by Murdoch rival Associated Newspapers Ltd., could only have been obtained through eavesdropping on his voice mails.

He said he could not think of any other way the newspaper could have obtained the story alleging that his romance with Jemima Khan was on the rocks because of his conversations with a “plummy voiced” woman the paper identified as a film studio executive.

Grant said there was no such woman, but he did receive voice messages from the assistant of a movie producer friend.

“She would leave charming, joking messages … and she had a voice that can only be described as plummy,” he said.

Grant sued the newspaper for libel and won.

Challenged about whether he had hard evidence, Grant acknowledged he was speculating.

“But … I’d love to hear what the Daily Mail or the Sunday Mail’s explanation of what that source was if it wasn’t phone hacking,” he said.

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Hugh Grant & Phone Hack

Hugh Grant & Phone Hack, Hugh Grant is more involved in tabloid scandal of piracy in the UK. The actor says that the police have been asked to testify in an investigation into allegations that a tabloid hacks into the phones of the subjects of news, including celebrities and a murder victim.

In an interview with “The Early Show” on Wednesday, Grant said: “This is the moment when, finally, the public begins to see and feel, especially the low and disgusting methods of this newspaper in particular were. What little is emerging that was not only this newspaper. ”

The actor has often said he believes his phone was hacked by News of the World. He told Sky News on Wednesday he was happy to work with the police, but also calls for support for an independent investigation.

In “The Early Show” interview, Grant said: “[B] asically all our ministers going back to Margaret Thatcher, we all realized that can not be elected unless the man who controls 37 percent of our print media powerful in the country is on their side. And they will go through humiliating hoops to keep Rupert [Murdoch] and his puppeteer. ”

News of the World is part of News Corp. Murdoch’s News Corp president and CEO.

Grant wrote an article in The New Statesman earlier this year revealed that secretly recorded a conversation with a former news reporter Paul McMullan of the world, who admitted that the tabloids used to get into mobile phones. (Listen to the conversation here.)

The scandal has accelerated this week with the news that the News of the World allegedly broke into a missing 13-year-old cell phone. Milly Dowler was abducted in 2002 in Surrey, England, was found dead six months later.

The police concluded that some of the messages on the phone Dowler had been removed shortly after her disappearance, her family wrong impression that may still be alive.