In between FX Documentary Framing Britney Spears and Meghan Markle interview with Oprah Winfrey, people are finally accepting the long-term damage done by the tabloid press and the paparazzi. Celebrities are also people – no one deserves to be harassed and harassed. And this tabloid behavior is not just limited to women. As we learned in the last episode of WTF with Marc MaronBritish gossip subjected Hugh Grant to some horrible things early in his career.
Maron brought up in the interview that he had heard that the British tabloids were somehow worse than the Americans, and Grant mentioned that, interestingly, he recently discovered that the tabloids did not tap his phone just to get access to text messages – they they also tapped his landline. “For years and years they listened, and my medical records [were stolen] and my car had errors placed in it so they would know where I was, ”he said. “Many of the guys who did this job – private investigators hired by tabloid newspapers – are now coming to our side,” said Gramt, referring to Hacked Off, the “campaign for a free and responsible press” that he joined in the wake of the News Corp. phone hacking scandal. in 2011. “They are now so angry that the editors, senior executives and owners of these newspapers have escaped with impunity while some of these ‘private soldiers’ went to prison. They are now coming to our side and spilling the beans. In addition to being something fascinating and horrible, it is also quite exciting and strange in a way. “
He also said that he hosts a birthday party every year with Hacked Off, and the group loves to invite “people who did terrible things to” Grant – like the person who snooped on his apartment after breaking down the door on its hinges. “So they love to say at these parties, ‘Now, Hugh, I don’t think you met Knobby, he broke into your apartment in 1999’, and I have to say, ‘Oh, hi Knob, welcome. I think you know where everything is. ‘”Good for him for having a sense of humor about it – but damn, we probably wouldn’t be that cool.
[via The Hollywood Reporter]