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happy endings, sadly, are hardly credible even for the actors who star in them. Notting Hill’s Hugh Grant, whose bookshop-owning alterego, William Thacker, ends up with glamorous actress Anna Scott — aka Julia Roberts — claims their relationship would not have lasted the 21 years since the romcom hit our screens. ‘I’m sure my character and that of Julia Roberts’ would have been through the ugliest imaginable divorce with really expensive, nasty lawyers,’ he says.