The actor said he wanted to fight on – but the size of a settlement offer from News Group made it financially risky to proceed further

Why did Hugh Grant settle his legal case against the Sun – even though he wanted to fight on?
The actor has accepted an “enormous” settlement from the Sun in return for dropping his claim that he was illegally targeted by the newspaper’s journalists.

Grant said he had wanted to fight the case and go to trial, where the Sun’s top executives could be called to give evidence. But he has instead concluded he cannot afford to turn down the payout from the Murdoch-owned newspaper – which he will be donating to press regulation charities.

Actor brought legal action against News Group Newspapers over allegations of unlawful information gathering

Hugh Grant has settled a high court claim against the publisher of the Sun newspaper over allegations of unlawful information gathering, a judge has been told.

The actor brought legal action against News Group Newspapers (NGN) in relation to the Sun, alleging he was targeted by journalists and private investigators, having previously settled a claim with the publisher in 2012 relating to the News of the World. He is among a number of individuals, including the Duke of Sussex, bringing claims against NGN.

One Day actor who has been cast in next Bridget Jones film has an appeal that spans generations, say pop culture experts

You’d probably never heard of him two years ago and now his blue eyes and floppy sandy hair are everywhere – from magazine covers to TikTok montages.

Searches for Leo Woodall multiplied this week with the announcement that the actor has been cast in the fourth Bridget Jones film , Mad About the Boy, crowning a whirlwind few months for the man who has stolen hearts and become one of Britain’s hottest exports.

They were the box-office titans behind sumptuous period masterpieces. Yet underneath, reveals a new warts-and-all film, they were skint, stressed, prone to blood-curdling bustups – and ping-ponging between lovers

If you were asked to guess which prestigious film-making duo had spent their career scratching around desperately for cash, trying to wriggle out of paying their cast and crew, ping-ponging between lovers, and having such blood-curdling bust-ups that their neighbours called the police, it might be some time before “Merchant Ivory” sprang to mind. But a new warts-and-all documentary about the Indian producer Ismail Merchant and the US director James Ivory makes it clear that the simmering passions in their films, such as the EM Forster trilogy of A Room With a View , Maurice and Howards End , were nothing compared to the scalding, volatile ones behind the camera.

From their initial meeting in New York in 1961 to Merchant’s death during surgery in 2005 , the pair were as inseparable as their brand name, with its absence of any hyphen or ampersand, might suggest. Their output was always more eclectic than they got credit for. They began with a clutch of insightful Indian-set dramas including Shakespeare-Wallah , their 1965 study of a troupe of travelling actors, featuring a young, pixieish Felicity Kendal. From there, they moved on to Savages , a satire on civilisation and primitivism, and The Wild Party , a skewering of 1920s Hollywood excess that pipped Damien Chazelle’s Babylon to the post by nearly half a century.

La démission de Johnson a trouvé sa chanson et c'est grâce à Hugh Grant (Hugh Grant le 2 février 2020 à Londres par Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)

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Morning @snb19692 Glad you have your speakers back. Do you by any chance have the Benny Hill music to hand?

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Just for @HackedOffHugh as requested here today at the media circus… College Green. The Benny Hill theme tune. pic.twitter.com/Tazb57gT8e

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