Live webchat with Hugh Grant (!!!) about the Leveson report and press reform, Monday 10 December, 8pm

[JustineMumsnet]

We're delighted to announce that sleb-actor-turned-campaigner Hugh Grant (yes it's Hugh ) is joining us for a webchat tonight, Monday, December 10 at 8pm.

Hugh keen to talk to us about the Leveson report and press reform. As you probably know he's been a prominent member of Hacked Off, and before that was best known for his quintessential English gent roles in movies such as Four Weddings and a Funeral and Love Actually.

Hacked Off is an alliance of victims of press abuse, journalists, academics, lawyers and others who successfully campaigned for a public inquiry into the phone hacking scandal.

And now that the inquiry's been held (by Lord Leveson), Hacked Off wants all Leveson's recommendations for press reform implemented.

(This webchat is focused on Leveson, so we hope you'll understand that Hugh will prioritising Qs about that ahead of Qs about his career/personal life/choice of biscuits - although, if there's time, he will do his best to address a few of those too.)

So, join us and Hugh, online at 8pm tonight. If you can't make it then, you can post up advance questions on this thread.

Not any scrotum that I've ever seen...

C'mon Hugh - whizz thro some of my our questions; i am ignoring dh to read what you have to say!

Who said that Hugh? MN has a huge Twitter presence...we'll bury them...

Oh wait...then we'd be acting like the press...

Major lawsuit pending I can guess which paper. I HOPE YOU WIN!

Isn't it enough that we can take the papers to the courts and also to the police? why do we need a third agency?

That makes it sound like I have inspected many scrotums...

Pfffft.

I just want to say that this has been much better than the webchat we had with Maria Miller useless individual recently.

Baubles is a liar

Oh Hugh, if my DH had a scrotum that looked remotely like you, I'd spend more time down there

Aha! A Toffee Penny Man. I knew it .

Ha !

Was thinking the same, Minge.

never seen such a lovely scrotum...

TeeElfOnTeeShelf American news isn't even in the same universe compared to the UK for sleb gossip. I couldn't beilve the shit that gets plastered on the front of papers when I first came to England.

@SPsFanjoIsSantasLittleHoHoHo

You are old enough to be my dad I think. Still you made some decent films.

Just would like to ask why you decided MumsNet was the place to come and more importantly. Do you love my name?

That is all.

To be honest, this whole issue rests on a knife edge. You've got the prime minister and the press barons trying preserve the cosy status quo. And then you've got 80% of the public, the Labour party, the lib dems and the victims trying to make Leveson meaningful I'm just trying to gather more support for our side to tip the balance and I though the people of Mumsnet might help. I also have a mother fixation...

It's after 9pm so I guess scrotum talk is sanctioned?

Oooh, I'm a mum.

So basically you knew that the ladies of MN would be all over you like a tramp's overcoat thus getting lots of signatures? That's genius!

And I have never seen a "I shagged such and such and it was amzing/disgusting/tiny" on the cover of a paper in my life before the UK

I'm a mum too

Me too Minge!

DoingitOnTheRoofTopWithHugh You've obviously never lived in California. It's just as bad, if not worse.

The difference is, I think, there are a lot fewer newspapers in the US. Each city has one, maybe two, major papers. Not like here where there are, it seems, hundreds. So the English papers have to be as outrageous as possible to get readers.

Mother fixation. Ooooooooo

and bless 'im!

Yes! I got orange boxed! I'm happy now thank you for that!

I feel so used

Do you really think 'we' can make a difference though ? Scameron and pals have listened to no-one on anything else, so why should this be any different ?

It seems like while they are in power, and because they know they have limited time, they will screw the country over to suit themselves and their pals, and leave a bloody great mess for others to clear up.

I wish 'we' the public would find our voices and unite over lots of issues, not just this, but it feels like it's hopeless.

I'm quite pleased Max Clifford might be off the scene soon.

Just saying...