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.

He is looking everyone of those 52 years on that video (see Hugh - THIS is what happens when you ignore my questions)

Ooooh he is naughty!

Who is the giggling interviewer? She sounds worse that us lot, trying to ask important questions while failing miserably to get past the fact IT'S HUGH GRANT talking to us!

I'm thinking of getting a t-shirt printed that says 'I've been orange-boxed by Hugh Grant'. No one will have a clue what I'm talking about.

Thank you Justine.

After watching that video, I'm very much in need of a biscuit for some reason.

In the video he says he likes biting the end off a crunchie and getting his tongue right inside it!! Oh Lordie!!

Ahh, he liked my questions. {sobs} I still don't have his number.

bunch I will be wearing a matching one

LadyMary, keep an eye on that inbox of yours.

I wish! It'll be another Christmas day, just ds and I. He'll open his presents and play whilst I clean up and cook.

LadyMary

It did seem to me as if he wholeheartedly was going to take up your kind offer.

I think you DO need to ring him. Maybe someone at MNHQ can give you his number ?

Can you imagine how awful it would be if he did arrive Christmas Day and you didn't have the goose ready for him ?

Stranger things have happened !

I have a tendency to over-think things and be a little delusional at this time of night....

I didn't knoooooooow!! I didn't know!

We'll be cooking a goose anyway, so it's no bother. DS would love someone to play on his xbox with him whilst I cook for hours. It would be incredibly crazy though.

Hugh Grants tongue

I'd love to see the youtube clip if he did arrive !

Ahh. Don't encourage me to imagine.

Actually, I'm surprised that MNHQ weren't most miffed that he thought they were all "old ladies like the WI".

I think my t-shirt will say "I've been boxed by Hugh Grant".

(Does 'boxed' have any sexual connatations ?)

Sadly it would appear not.

I shall have to think of something else for mine.

We should get some printed.

Only if you want it to Vamos

Nah, if it doesn't have underlying rude tones, I'm not interested.

Hmmm.

Would it be stretching it too far to have "Fingered by Hugh Grant" ?

He must have been typing earlier. No MNHQ member would admit to being so unprofessionally slow, surely ?

Oh, that's bad!

I know.

I was a good girl for Hugh earlier, and he said THANK YOU. So now I can be norty.