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Hugh Grant - not interviewed by the Mail
So today’s news - that Grant had given an interview to the Mail’s Weekend magazine - was, well, unexpected. Had Geordie Greig’s mission to make the Mail a “force for good” (no laughing at the back) come so far, so soon? And then came the first line of the “interview”: “Hugh Grant has revealed how life as an older father has saved him from being a ‘scary old’ bachelor addicted to golf”. Hugh Grant talking about golf? Eh?
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A kinder, gentler editor? Not as such
There was more. “In an interview with the Daily Mail’s Weekend magazine he admits he has never been ‘Mr Nice Guy’ and adds: ‘I think I turned into a slightly scary old golf-addicted bachelor, and to tell you the truth I’m glad to see the back of him.’” I can't imagine Hugh Grant said that to the Mail. And there is a good reason for that - he didn’t. There was no interview. He did not sit down with the Mail’s “Showbusiness News Editor”.
We know this as he has said so: “Astonished and revolted to see [Daily Mail] has a prominent ‘interview’ with me today. Never spoke to them. Yuk”. So how did the paper get all those quotes? “Am told the piece is cobbled together from quotes I gave to a press conference of journalists from many countries that I did in America in January. None of them declared they were from the Mail”. But one of them presumably was.
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What recourse does Grant have? I suspect that, providing the Mail’s showbiz person introduced herself as such, even fleetingly, at the press conference he mentions, very little. What was that about Greig creating a kinder, gentler Daily Mail, a force for good? Nothing more than flannel, a little braggadocio to wind up Dacre, who was kicked upstairs after he vacated the editor’s chair. The Daily Mail is still a devious and spiteful beast.
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