Good-natured, bumbling cad Hugh Grant isn't always a charming aggregate of clotted cream, Weetabix, and rakish good looks. No, gentle reader, even Hugh can be goaded into smacking a bitch down when the prying lens of the Pavarotti disturbs his morning stroll. Only instead of freaking out and turning into a whirling, Taz-like tornado of scratching and hair-pulling a la Cameron Diaz, he cheekily swatted the snapper with a folder and then kicked him in the bum. He even throws a hissy in a highly English fashion. Pip pip!
On Tuesday, Mr. Grant was enjoying a leisurely jaunt alone through Central Park in New York when a man with a cam approached and began furiously taking photos. Grant whipped out his cell phone–er, mobile–and pulled a Lohan, taking pictures back and asking, "How do you like it, mate?" The pap wasn't deterred, and kept shooting Grant, so the star had no other recourse except to call him a "pussy" and then wallop him with a manilla folder. Former New York Daily News spokesman Ken Frydman watched the whole thing go down, and said,
"The photographer kept smirking at him. He said, 'I don't know what you're so mad about.' [Grant then replied,] 'You're invading my privacy. This is your last warning, you cunt.' The photographer kept taunting him. That's when Grant kicked him in the butt. Not hard–he was just trying to shove him away."
It should be interesting to read the legal papers when the photographer sues Hugh Grant for assault. Ass-kicking aside, being boxed about the ears with a manilla folder is harsh. Paper cuts hurt! Was it a Smead folder? An Office Depot? A Pentab? God, we hope it wasn't a Pentab. They're legal sized.
