Hugh Grant Gets Very Graphic About Accidentally Giving His Family Food Poisoning (Twice)

Hugh Grant has admitted his foray into cooking hasn’t been entirely successful.

The British actor recently interviewed his Bridget Jones co-star Renée Zellweger for a feature in British Vogue, during which she was left stunned by the news that he’d recently started cooking for himself and his family.

“Do you know I’ve started cooking for the first time in 64 years,” he shared, to which Renée responded: “What, toast?”

He revealed: “I can’t stop barbecuing. Can’t stop buying barbecue equipment. And now that it’s winter, I’ve moved indoors and I can’t stop buying Le Creuset.”

Unfortunately, he then disclosed that he’s “poisoned my family twice” by “[giving] them worms” as a result of “undercooked chicken”.

“It was dark, you see,” Hugh explained. “It was on the barbecue and I stuck my Heston Blumenthal prod into it. I couldn’t quite read it. So I served it out – worms all round.

“And the children now beg me not to cook.”

This isn’t the first time Hugh has lifted the lid on his family life, since becoming a father in his 50s.

Back in 2021, he opened up about how his children had to be home-schooled during the pandemic, recalling how his son had “stabbed himself in the face with a Biro” after one particular frustrating incident.

More recently, he told the SmartLess podcast that fatherhood had changed him from “a “dried-up, middle-aged, golf-addicted Englishman” to someone with “heart” and “more layers or something”.

During a different interview on Kelly Clarkson’s US talk show, the Since U Been Gone singer questioned the Heretic star about whether he is a “jungle gym dad” who has kids “crawling all over” him, prompting a surprisingly sincere response.

He said with a smile: “I love a bit of that, yeah. I mean, there’s a lot to dread [about fatherhood], because I’m old and it’s noisy and it’s unbearable and I do a lot of hiding in the loo. I do a lot of sleeping in there now! There’s a lock, but they’ve pretty much broken it now… but it is nice.”

“I’m going home tonight, and let’s face it, the bit where they jump in your arms, the six-year-old, you know. She calls it her chimpanzee hug. I quite like that,” he added.

Read Hugh Grant and Renée Zellweger’s full interview in the latest issue of British Vogue.

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This Renée Zellweger Oscars Wardrobe Malfunction Could Have Been Lifted From Bridget Jones

During the chat, Renée was shown a photo from the 2005 Oscars, a year after her first win, where she presented the award for Best Supporting Actor to Morgan Freeman.

Looking at a photo of her red carpet ensemble, the two-time Oscar winner revealed that her night at that year’s ceremony involved a comedy of errors that could have been lifted straight from a Bridget Jones movie.

“As we were leaving that night, a gentleman stepped on the train [of my dress], and I kept walking in the other direction, and it ripped it right off my dress, from right beneath my booty,” she recalled with a laugh.

Renée continued: “There were parties and things afterwards, but I needed to go home and do a little bit of a costume change.”

Unfortunately, when she got there, she realised she’d come to the Oscars without taking her house key with her, leaving her “climbing up the balcony to the second floor” so she could enter through a bathroom window – all while still wearing her ruined dress “with a hole under my booty”.

Read Renée Zellweger’s full British Vogue interview here.

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Graham Norton Reveals Surprising Origin Story Of The Iconic ‘Big Red Chair’

There are a few things Graham Norton’s BBC talk show has become synonymous with in the last 18 years – namely its eclectic mix of guests on the sofa, the host’s (often cutting) opening monologues, unpredictable audience interactions and, of course, the “big red chair”.

At the end of each episode, Graham invites members of the studio audience to tell different stories from their lives in a cosy-looking armchair, only to tip them out with the aid of a lever once they start to bore him.

But what might surprise you to hear is that the “big red chair” was never intended to be a permanent fixture.

In fact, Graham told Seth Meyers during a recent episode of his US talk show that the whole thing “happened by accident”.

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The “big red chair” segment was actually intended as a one-off for when Ronnie Corbett was a guest during the fifth season back in 2009 (the late comedian was known for sharing anecdotes and jokes from his own armchair as part of the Two Ronnies sketch show).

“A couple of weeks later we got a call from our line producer going, ‘you know that chair you had built? Turns out, that was quite expensive! So if you could use it again…’,” Graham recalled.

“So it must be about 12 years now, and we use it every week.”

The Irish presenter also shared one behind-the-scenes tidbit about the “red chair”, when Seth pointed out how much he loves watching audience’s members legs fly up when they’re tipped backwards.

He enthused: “They flip straight back, and it’s like they have puppet legs! It’s so delightful.”

Graham then revealed: “You are such a television professional, because we brief them to throw their legs up!”

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