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Hugh Grant: Sex on the Sunset Strip, Assault with a Non-Deadly Weapon, and Cracking Open
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Hugh Grant infamously almost tanked his budding movie career when he was caught with a sex worker on the Sunset Strip. He was arrested a second time when he assaulted paparazzi outside his house…with a Tupperware container full of baked beans. But perhaps most shocking of all, he wore a wire to interview a tabloid reporter and wound up cracking open a phone-hacking case that implicated both the London police and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Sources
Hugh Grant arrested with sex worker 20 years ago (The Guardian)
‘What the hell were you thinking?’: How Hugh Grant’s arrest for ‘lewd conduct’ changed the way celebrities say sorry (The Independent)
As Hugh Grant hits 50, we track down Divine Brown - the LA hooker with whom he wrecked his image and lost Liz Hurley (Daily Mail)
Hugh Grant’s Bean Attack Best of 2007 (Lainey Gossip)
Hugh Grant Arrested for Attacking Paparazzi (Alan Carr: Chatty Man)
Drew Barrymore and Hugh Grant make out at the Waverly (Lainey Gossip)
Drew Barrymore and Hugh Grant revisit the 'bizarre' time they made out for 10 minutes (EW)
The bugger, bugged (New Statesman)
Police failure to investigate Milly Dowler phone hacking 'unacceptable' (The Guardian)
Credits
Hosted by Jake Brennan.
Written by Bob Proehl.
Copy edited by James Sullivan.
Scored and mixed by Colin Fleming.
Additional music and score elements by Ryan Spraker.
*illustrations by Avi Spivak @avispivak