Hugh Grant has angrily shared an “insulting and creepy” encounter he had at Heathrow Airport together with his spouse and kids.
The Notting Hill and Bridget Jones’s Diary actor, who was Bafta nominated earlier this yr for his uncommon scary flip in 2024 horror movie Heretic, was travelling by means of the airport on Friday (4 April) the place he claimed that his three kids have been unnecessarily questioned by an immigration officer.
He wrote on X/Twitter: “Simply got here by means of Heathrow with spouse and kids. All of us have the identical final identify (Grant) on our passports.
“Immigration officer engages my kids in chit chat then whispers to them ‘Are these your Mum and Dad?’”
Grant described the encounter as “intrusive, insulting and creepy”.
The actor was travelling together with his three kids – aged 12, eight and 6– that he shares together with his spouse Anna Elisabet Eberstein. He additionally has a 13 and 11-year-old with ex Tinglan Hong.
The actor, who’s non-public when it comes household affairs, didn’t say the place he was travelling to or from.
Immigration officers – also called Border Drive officers – are employed by Residence Workplace, not the airport.
Official authorities steering notes that officers “could ask” travellers “a number of questions” in the event that they “are usually not the kid’s guardian” or “when you have a distinct household identify” to “set up your relationship with the kid” in a means that “is delicate to the pursuits of the kid and the grownup concerned”.
The Impartial has contacted the Residence Workplace for remark.
Whereas Grant not often discusses his kids, he just lately revealed that his youngest daughter’s center identify is a hilarious reference to Austin Powers.
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The British movie star mentioned that the choice got here after discovering himself “in a little bit of a panic” together with his spouse, whom he married in 2018.
Grant mentioned of his six-year-old, who was born in March 2018: “We thought it may be good for her when she was older if she may say in bars that her center identify is Hazard. So her identify is Lulu Hazard Grant. Austin Powers, ?”
Within the first Austin Powers movie, Worldwide Man of Thriller (1997), Powers (Mike Myers) corrects a person who asks him if his identify is Hazard Powers. When he tells him his identify is, in actual fact, Austin Powers, the person replies: “It says right here Hazard Powers,” to which Austin flirtily appears at Elizabeth Hurley’s Vanessa Kensington and says: “No, no, no – Hazard’s my center identify.”
Grant additionally revealed that he virtually named his different daughter after his son’s favorite Despicable Me character – the Minion known as Kevin.
“We requested her elder brother when she was on the best way, ‘There’s a brand new child coming alongside, what we could name her?’ and he mentioned ‘Kevin’, as a result of that was his favorite Minion.
Grant continued: “And we did take into consideration calling her Kevin, however then we mentioned, ‘You’d higher consider one thing else’, and he mentioned ‘Blue’ as a result of that was his favorite color.”
The actor was in a relationship with Austin Powers star Elizabeth Hurley from 1987 to 2000, and the pair have remained shut pals since their cut up. Grant, who has 5 kids, is godfather to Hurley’s son, Damian.
Talking about Grant in 2021, Hurley mentioned: “He’s very fortunately married. I spent a while with him and his spouse a number of weeks in the past at a birthday celebration. He has 5 kids. He’s an incredible daddy.
“His profession is through-the-roof implausible in the mean time. Greatest evaluations of his life, good provides on the desk. We’re good pals and I hope it all the time stays that means.”
