Grant us peace, Hugh……

Hugh Grant told the Leveson Inquiry into phone hacking that the Mail On Sunday must have bugged his phone, as there’s no other explanation as to how they could have known about his conversation with a ‘plummy-voiced’ woman in 2007. Personally I reckon the MoS needn’t have acquired this information via a phone hack, it’s more likely they thought back to 1995 when Grant was arrested while a prostitute performed a sex act on him. I imagine that they made an assumption that he was still in contact with the woman, and that she called him while in the middle of performing her specialism, hence the ‘plummy voice’. On a serious note, Grant’s posturing and attention seeking in this inquiry threatens to engulf the evidence of the genuine victims of the phone hacking, victims such as the Dowler’s who, unlike Grant, have conducted themselves with a quiet dignity.