Hugh Grant keeps getting spotted in the most unlikely of places
Fans have been left gobsmacked after discovering one wild detail about beloved British movie star Hugh Grant.
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Fans are losing their minds after spotting the Love Actually star in some of the most unlikely of places.
The British movie icon was recently seen enjoying a wallet-friendly cup of coffee inside UK budget cafe chain Pret-a-Manger.
The 64-year-old king of romantic comedies has millions in the bank and could undoubtedly afford to get thousands of cups of premium coffee at any fancy restaurant he desired.
Yet the award-winning actor is reportedly quite the regular at the national chain and can often be seen enjoying £2 lattes by the window.
“POV: Hugh Grant just casually sat in Pret and no one else cares?!” one fan shared to TikTok alongside a short clip of the star in London.
“Not on my Thursday bingo card.”
“This is what I love about London,” one commented.
“Celebrities are just normal people there. It’s so different to the US.”
“I love that he just hangs out like the rest of us,” another shared.
“You wouldn’t even know he is famous by how he acts.”
“I swear he’s always in that Pret,” another pointed out.
“I see him more times than I see my own family.”
It is not the first time that Grant – who won hearts with his loveable roles in classics like Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), Notting Hill (1999), Bridget Jones’ Diary (2001), About a Boy (2002) and Love Actually (2003) – has been seen chowing down in Pret.
In 2020, he was spotted taking a big sip of coffee inside another London location.
“Sharing a Pret with Hugh Grant, this vid is so British is hurts,” the poster captioned the clip.
Grant was spotted again at another Pret spot, delighting fans as he nonchalantly waffled down a sandwich and coffee.
“Having a Pret with Hugh Grant, this is such a British video,” it was captioned.
In what has been described as Grant “turning into Will” – his grumpy ‘man-child’ character from About A Boy – he actually called out his favourite cafe for getting into the Christmas spirit too early.
“Christmas hats and music off please @Pret. Try again in four weeks,” he angrily blasted on Twitter back in 2019.
“It doesn’t make us merry or spend more. It makes us GNASH.”
The movie star is no stranger to public transport either, with another lucky fan recently finding herself sitting opposite Grant and his wife Anna on the London tube.
“I see him on the tube all the time, his son goes to school near where I live,” one commented.
“Hugh Grant just jumping on the tube is so iconic,” another said.
In a different clip, he can be seen casually eating carrots while enjoying Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour concert in London.
“He has big dad energy and I love it,” said one.
“I’d be more excited about seeing him than Taylor,” another said.
In an interview with Drew Barrymore on her talk show last year, Grant revealed the reason he thinks he is no longer cast in romantic comedies.
“I got too old and fat and ugly to do romantic comedies, obviously,” he laughed.
“So I got offered more interesting things.”
Despite his pleasure at finally starting to focus on character roles, Barrymore is reportedly holding out hope that he will soon return to the realm of rom-coms.
“I got a bit better,” the British native said regarding his acting abilities. “I got a little less bad after I had children, got married, got happier.”
“We should do another one,” the “Charlie’s Angels” alum, who worked with Grant in 2007’s “Music and Lyrics,” said.
Grant opened up about how he thought his return to rom-coms is unlikely as he was never a huge fan of the genre in the first place.
“I love those films. I love the fact that people still like them, but I never felt comfortable really doing them,” he told Barrymore.
“I don’t know about you, but I prefer more of a mask. I want to be someone else.
“Then it frees me up and then I quite like acting.”
However last month, Grant announced that he shed a tear when reading the script for the fourth instalment of Bridget Jones’s Diary and could not say no to returning to the franchise.
“I loved the script. It made me cry and I wanted to help with this one,” Grant told Vanity Fair.
“But really there’s no part for Daniel Cleaver in it at all.
“They wanted him in it, and in the end, they’d done something I wasn’t crazy about.”
Grant reportedly “wrote some scenes” that director Michael Morris approved and placed into the plot.
He will star alongside Renée Zellweger, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Emma Thompson and Leo Woodall, Bridget’s newest rumoured love interest.
“There are people in my life who have always said, ‘Oh, that’s much more like the real Hugh,’” Grant said of Daniel, who ended up seducing Bridget with his devilish charm in the first two films.
The actor, who once called himself a “grumpy old man,” was excited to join Mad About the Boy, which is due for release in February 2025.
“It’s absolutely the best [Bridget Jones book], and I think it’s very funny and very, very moving,” he admitted.
“I’m not in a lot, I did a week’s work, that’s it. … But when you see the film, you’ll be very moved.”
The film’s poster was unveiled in August with the tagline: “New decade. New diary.”
The shot featured Zellweger, 55, donning a pink cardigan with her character’s iconic red diary once again in hand.
Bridget Jones’s Diary first hit theatres in 2001 based on the book of the same name by author Helen Fielding.
The series follows Bridget as she finds herself in a love triangle between sworn enemies Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant) and Mark Darcy (Colin Firth), who ultimately wins her heart.
In Bridget Jones’s Baby, the two are married with a son.
But Mad About the Boy follows the third novel, which captures Bridget navigating being a single mother and dating after Mark’s unexpected death.
-With the New York Post
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