Do we like Hugh Grant at the moment? I’m never sure. We do!. Because of his prowess as a nuanced character actor, evidenced in the recent film Heretic?. No. Because he hates backpacks. Sorry?. And frontpacks. What’s a fr…. And water bottles. The snappy sourpuss appears to have dropped his former foppishness. Or is it all just an act?.
It sounds as though he’s got a few pet peeves. A few? He’s got hundreds. ‘I am one enormous pet peeve,’ he said in a TikTok for Absolute Radio. ‘That’s all I do. I walk around the streets peeving.’. Is his ire reserved exclusively for outdoor equipment?.
No. In fact the 64-year-old actor told Vanity Fair that the historical figure he most identified with was Scott of the Antarctic. And how does he view the great explorer?. As ‘an angry, disappointed little man’. Who is Grant angry and disappointed with, then?.
Anyone who works in private equity, tech or London traffic planning, apparently, alongside slow walkers. So if I really want to annoy Hugh Grant I should amble about with a backpack (on my front), brandishing a water bottle and a copy of The Private Equity Playbook.
But why would you want to annoy Hugh?. . I’m upset that he’s morphed from leading man into Victor Meldrew-meets-Larry David. That’s why we love him! ‘Thinly veiled fury’ is, he says, his most marked characteristic. What happened to the floppy-fringed guy who said ‘bugger’ a lot?.
