Hugh Grant pulls out of 'Bridget Jones 3',

Hugh Grant has revealed that he no longer intends to appear in the upcoming third Bridget Jones film.

Radio Times review

He's not actually made a romcom since 2009, but it's still impossible to imagine Hugh Grant starring in any other kind of film. Tonight he talks to Graham Norton about The Rewrite, in which he plays an anti-heroic cad akin to his roles in About a Boy and Bridget Jones's Diary.

Joining him on the sofa is Emma Thompson, who was persuaded to write a sequel to Beatrix Potter's story about Peter Rabbit when the publishers cleverly sent her a package containing a half-eaten radish and a letter from Peter himself. She couldn't refuse, she said, because "it was such a witty invitation".

Well, what else would you watch on Valentine's Day night? Whether you're a singleton or smug married, grab that tub of ice cream and snuggle down with this loveably rewatchable Brit comedy.

Bridget Jones, for anyone who's just arrived in Britain, is a mildly weight-obsessed, thirtysomething single woman with big mummy pants looking for love through a glass of Chardonnay.

She is portrayed, surprisingly well, by the normally size-zero US actress Renée Zellweger, who womanned up for the role by stuffing her face with pizza, Guinness, milk shakes and doughnuts. Talk about sacrifice for her art.

Anyway, the joy of this is watching Bridget's various, entirely relatable, mishaps and her mistakes with men, the lead contenders for her heart being Hugh Grant (dashing cad) and Colin Firth (uptight, haughty, dull).

The scene where they get it on - as in Hugh and Colin, as in having a big girlie fist fight - is a hands-down classic. YouTube it if you need a giggle.

Comparisons with About A Boy are inevitable but - with the undeniable boon of there being nary a Hugh Grant in sight - this tale of an unlikely friendship struck between Nick Helm's suicidal, solipsistic and rather dickish Andy and his nerdy, timid and rather dickish nephew Errol is, in turns, awkward, hilarious, surreal and poignant. But never too poignant. Ideal for filling any Him And Her-shaped hole in your life.

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The second of Richard Curtis's romcoms, following Four Weddings, about bumbling good eggs and frightfully pretty girls. Hugh Grant plays a bookseller who pulls a film star (Julia Roberts) - it's amusing, in particular when Grant's character ineptly poses as a journalist from Horse & Hound at a press junket for a sci-fi movie.

Hugh Grant is impossibly perfect casting as an eternal bachelor boy in this Oscar-nominated adaptation of Nick Hornby's unusual coming-of-age comedy-drama. He's Will, a happily superficial chap whose inherited wealth (from his dad's Christmas novelty pop single) means he never needs to work again. Will is disconnected from the world until a chance encounter with a depressed single mum (Toni Collette) and her precocious son Marcus, played by a pre-hottie, pudding-bowled Nicholas Hoult.

Hugh Grant turned away from Edinburgh comedy show

Actor refused entry by bouncers after some members of his party were unable to provide proof of age.

Hugh Grant barred from Fringe venue

Hugh Grant was turned away from a comedy show at the Edinburgh Fringe last night - thanks to overzealous bouncers.