Notting Hill part 2, Hugh? It’d be a nice little gurner
HE’S back in the West London district with which he will be forever linked – but Hugh Grant could hardly look less delighted to have returned to Notting Hill.
The star pulled a most peculiar face last week as he stood outside the famous blue door that played such a pivotal part in the 1999 romcom.
In the Richard Curtis movie, his character – a bookshop owner – opened the door to find a crowd of paparazzi because of his romance with a Hollywood star, played by Julia Roberts.
Rhys Ifans also appeared outside the same door – gyrating in only his underpants for the photographers’ benefit. The door has been a tourist attraction ever since.
But last week, 57-year-old Grant faced just a small film crew on the very same spot.
And as he emerged, he acknowledged: ‘The last time I came through this door there was rather a lot of press people outside.’
At one stage, the actor was spotted holding up a sign which read: ‘Picnic with me.’
Curtis’s partner Emma Freud says that it’s a clue to a new celebrity charity project being launched next month.