AIBU to feel sorry for Hugh Grant's daughter who he reportedly 'likes very much'?

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What a complete tit. Who honestly says that about a new baby child. I hope to God she never hears these words uttered by her emotionally incompetent father

Soooooo you're basing his emotional apptitude as a father on one interview and sentence.

Have you spent time with him observing his fathering skills?

You know maybe he was just deflecting the media obsession with a tiny girl who deserves some privacy.

I'm sure he's as besotted as any new Dad. He just talks a bit funny.

That's sort of his way though isn't it, his humour. I can imagine him saying it but I'm sure he loves her very much. I'd take it with a pinch of salt.
His daughter will judge him on the way he brings her up, not on one off the cuff comment.

Surely it's obvious that comment was made tongue in cheek tho? I sometimes tell dd's I like them very much too, doesn't mean I also don't love them!

Oh, come along now. Probably just being wry/humble with interviewers.

Hugh is hardly known for his openness with the media.

He's probably been asked a thousand times over how he feels about his baby girl so I don't blame him for saying something like that.

I thought that was just the way he talked to the press anyway as if keeping them at arms length and not letting on as to how he really feels.

Bad choice of words, time will tell, at least he emotionally engages and financially supports her.

Gosh

The Guardian interviewed him at the weekend, and said it was an agonising experience: he's so anxious about saying anything, in the light of the Leveson inquiry and with the tabloids after his guts and the fear that he'll inadvertantly fuel that, that he can almost say nothing at all.

I think it might be an appropriate time to cut him a bit of slack.

I said I was reasonably fond of my children today.

In their hearing.
Shoot me now.

He's notorious for understatement, and even if he weren't, lots of fathers take a whole to get their heads around newborn babies.

He's said all the right things about his baby's mother IME, which is a really good start.

Given that his daughter and the child's mother have been subjected to pretty invasive press behaviour, I can understand him not wanting to go on and on about her and give the press more titbits about her life so they can go on a fishing exhibition.

Sounds like a way of playing down a topic he didn't want to discuss.

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'likes very' ???

I think he was being quite sweet tbh. He took the LO to visit his dad in hospital, didn't he? And he was saying how the nurses were fussing over her.

Sounded like a proud dad to me.

It reminded me of my uncle- also rather British and understated- totally besotted with his new baby son and he said 'You know, I think we'll keep him'

Are you taking issue with the saying it or the feeling it? Because you can't make yourself feel something. Besides, it's about time this myth that even if you dislike and don't want children, you will suddenly adore your own child and love being a parent, is broken down. Because clearly looking at the world, it doesn't always happen like that.

I say I love you to DH

He will reply ' don't tell my wife' or 'thanks' or 'i have moderate affection for you' on occasion 'I love you too'

It's just his humour op chill out

That's such a 'Hugh Grant' thing to say though!

It took us 7 years of shit and a v stressful pg to get the dtwins.I remember when twin 1 was born dp was dp -no tears, drama or flowery words.

You couldn't get a more besotted and hands on father.

I admittedly don't know HG at all, but this does sound like his brand of English humour.

We can all 'love' some one - but liking them is very different.

He's educated and has a markedly different vocabulary to the rank and file plebs that hang on to tabloid press. Fortunately he's not given to the hysterical Diana-esque outpouring of emotion that is just so unbecoming.

I've seen the interview - he marvelled in his daughter

I'm sure it would have been tongue-in-cheek. It's perfectly reasonable to decline to gush in public :)

They'd better take DD away from me then. Whenever a stranger tells me how lovely she is, I tell them 'yes, she's alright'.

Obviously I don't deserve to have her if I don't go into raptures over how she amazes me every second of the day just by doing the inane stuff that toddlers do, or how my heart could burst just from her throwing bricks at the telly smiling at me.

What do you expect him to feel about a small baby whose mother he has not had much to do with?