to think this is not nice of Richard E Grant

@WizardOfAus That photo is scaring me but I can't take my eyes off it 🙈

Indeed. Imagine the responses on here if someone posted "My DW has sadly passed away. I put a tribute on Instagram and just included our shared DD, not my SS. AIBU?".

Apparently he was really weird/prickly on the Richard Herring podcast (RHLSTP, RHLSTP) and forbade Richard from releasing it despite being offered option to edit out any part he didn't like. It remains unreleased.

What a wanker 😡
I wouldn’t wipe my backside on him if he was bog roll.

I follow him on Insta and had no idea he had a stepson. It's like he's written him out his wife's life!

I’ve always wanted to like him but something stops me.

I now have a very good reason to believe he’s a prick.

Photo here

I saw him live at his Fane shows and he came across as lovely and kind and extremely self-deprecating. I also read his book, which made me cry when he talked about his wife dying. I too read the article today and was shocked by that part. He doesn’t come across well in the interview at all. What a shame.

Is the Queen at Balmoral comment a reference to the silly photo he’s taken for the article?

I'm a bit surprised at all the comments who can't believe he can be a dick because they've met him or only heard nice things. It's not like most people don't have multiple sides to them. And an professional actor even more so.

I know nothing about this woman's work, but we only have her word about this, and I wouldn't take it as gospel.

I presume she recorded the interview to write up later and that REG would've been fully aware of that rather than she sat there rubbing her hands together with glee at fabricating this to make him look bad, not least because he could sue the arse off her.

And god forbid we take a woman's comments as gospel. Whatever next!

Not great. I met him once and found him very charming. But apparently not. He’s estranged from his brother because they have ‘nothing in common’. 🙄 Says a lot.

So you admit you know nothing about “this woman’s” work and have never met REG yourself but you choose to single her out as the one whose word we shouldn’t take as gospel. Another example of our celebrity obsessed culture 🙄.

Also, how does the fact that REG talked about receiving uncomplimentary comments about his looks, makes it not one way?! Your comment would only make sense if the journalist had actually made a derogatory comment herself also which she did not. And as a journalist with a reputation to uphold, why on earth would she even want to? But why let common sense get in the way huh?

Oh. My. God.

He's not the man that I thought he was.

I know several people who have dealt with REG over the years and have never had anything but praise for him, and they have all said how utterly lovely he his.

In the article he describes some of the uncomplimentary reviews he has had about his looks over the years, so it's not all one way for a start.

I know nothing about this woman's work, but we only have her word about this, and I wouldn't take it as gospel.

I went to a Q&A with him. He was completely lovely

Yeah, I dont get those posts either- she did not say "hey Richard, what do you think of my face- is it attractive to you?" she asked him for a diary entry he would make when talking to his wife which he apparently does every day. WTF has her face and the fact she's had cancer got to do with his diary to his wife?

It was a horrible thing to say.

teo or three posters have said don’t ask questions/feedback if you don’t want it.

she didn’t ask please describe my face, she asked for a diary entry, any normal none twat person, who is at an interview to advertise themselves and his most recent movie would be like blah blah I talked to a wonderful journalist about my new movie/book/whatever he’s hawking, it’s great it’s about x and y and it’s out on this date

I obviously don’t know this man, but what I see of him, his rictus grin, his over confidence, his superiority makes me exit the screen, page whatever he’s on. What is it about him that gives me the absolute dislike of him?

Yes it didnt sound like they gelled did it, I mean before the comment at the end. She asks him a question and he asks her one back.

They seem spiky with each other. However, he would never know that stuff about her not being able to have plastic surgery if she had t told him so is he playing her words back to her? He does say about having his own face commented on negatively. It’s her “ouch” at the end that seems to infer he’s being a horrible rather than joking. But then again don’t ask for feedback if you don’t want it. But like the photo posts on here, the how old do I look ones.

And a level of arrogance his career does not warrant. Spice world not included.

I've always thought there was something off about him. A sort of nastiness that came across even when acting. I'm not surprised by what he said really.

I know people in the team that cared for his late wife. They said the whole family was lovely and that he was very kind and appreciative. He is well known and liked locally.

Lol! God yes, of course I mean Clarkson . Sorry @ Jeremy Paxman!

Think more context is needed here.

He never came across as cruel in his shows (watched him on that hotel thing he did, plus seen him in interviews).

He is a witty man.