Hugh Grant Likes His Daughter Okay
Hugh Grant (or "Dayum That Bitch Got Old" as you're calling him right now) accidentally made a baby with Chinese actress Tinglan Hong (Tinglin' Dong would be a really good porn name, by the way) last year and he hasn't really talked about his 6-month-old daughter Tabitha, because he's been too busy deciding if he likes her or not. It's good to know that he does! Hugh told The Guardian (via People) that he likes Tabitha and he likes her so much that he's not going to set up a trust fund for her. Oh, Hugh, you've officially transformed into your About a Boy character:
On being a father to a baby: "Lots of people warned me [that] the baby period is not that exciting. But I am excited, actually. I thought, well, I'll bluff through — but very little bluffing has been required."On if he thinks his daughter is an asshole or not: "I like my daughter very much. Has she changed my life? I'm not sure. Not yet. Not massively, no. But I'm absolutely thrilled to have had her, I really am. And I feel a better person."
On why he won't let his daughter become a trustafarian: "I see nothing but fuck-ups among my trust-fund friends. It's like 99% fuck-ups. So I would not want to do that to my children, no."
So many people slobber on and on about how perfect their babies are, and how their perfect babies shit perfect shits and are perfect this, perfect that, perfect, perfect, perfect. So it's kind of refreshing that Hugh says in a British way that if his daughter had a Facebook page, he might like it if he was under the influence or feeling charitable. But about that trust fund thing...
I'd be pissed off if my dad was in Did You Hear About the Morgans? and I couldn't even use my trust fund money to buy a $2,000 Hermes scarf to hide my embarrassment in. Well, at least if Tabitha ever needs cash and Hugh refuses to give it to her, she can use the line: "How do you expect me to pay my rent? Sell my ass on the corner of Sunset and Courtney?"
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Whamo: Maybe it's just the people I know, but the mother usually does the majority of the work and adjusting her life. The men work just as late, go out with their buddies, watch football on Sundays, etc. What stops? Maybe sex. (Which, admittedly, is a big deal to you people.) I know very few dads who fully participate in the baby/child care - and I'm very fond of them.
ETA: It's a familiar refrain among many moms I know that the dads' lives don't change, but the womens' lives suffer a great deal of upheaval. Do MEN have to worry what having a child will do to their careers? NO. Do they worry about being more financially vulnerable now that they have a kid? NO. They know if they leave the family, they'll be on the hook for, what?, a couple hundred dollars every month? Pffft.
Hugh doesn't even LIVE with them, so having a baby is just another monthly check to write and another bi-weekly social obligation.
Feh.
Submitted by NOT IMPRESSED on Tue, 03/20/2012 - 1:11pm.
About A Boy is one of my favorite movies. That is all.
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One of mine as well. I loved Hugh in that. And Toni Collette. It's a Christmas movie staple of mine, and I hate Christmas movies.
So glad his has not gone the route Bruce Jenner and Kenny Rodgers did and got a stretched to the max facelift.
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Submitted by ISprainedMyUvula on Tue, 03/20/2012 - 1:04pm.
I agree.
I do feel sorry for the child though because she is going to know her father didn't really want her and that's not her fault. If he didn't want a child he could have done more to prevent it (as she could the mother). Shit happens though and he doesn't have to pretend he is ecstatic about it.
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he looks oooooooooooooold! but better than before, imo
Adding to the consensus. Very refreshing to hear someone be honest about how spawning hasn't been the life-altering event new parents like to make it out to be. Babies, poop, barf, wail, and require constant attention. Pardon Hugh if he's not thrilled.
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Submitted by Hekki on Tue, 03/20/2012 - 1:10pm.
Well, since having a baby doesn't usually affect the lives of their dads in any material way
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Hekki my friend I'm usually with you on most things you throw out here but I have to give a you a WHAT!!!??? on this one LOL!!
While I don't have kids myself I have lots of friends that do and I think they'd beg to differ big time.
I will just have to say.....
MYSOGINY...REPORTED!!!! :)
Also: I have known a few trust fund kids. The fucked up ones have certain kinds of parents. The "good" ones have another kind of parent.
IMO, it's not the amount of money they have, it's how they were raised. To me, it sounds like he doesn't want to give the baby mama and baby any of his money.
Well, this is what happens when you don't use protection Hugh. Hopefully he has some involvement in his daughter's life.
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About A Boy is one of my favorite movies. That is all.
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Well, since having a baby doesn't usually affect the lives of their dads in any material way (especially if they're not really into being a dad, or living in the same household), why should he have answered any differently? He's probably not breastfeeding her or changing her diapers or worrying about the nanny calling in sick.
Submitted by IrishFury on Tue, 03/20/2012 - 12:32pm.
Before Hugh gets slated for saying what he said, this is how he talks. I think he thinks he sounds all British and eccentric and artsy. But the American way of fawning is as bad "when I see my baby, it's like stars in the sky and sunshine on a dewy morn...".
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Exactly. When you compare US talkshows to British ones it is so different. The conversation is different, the openness of people that come on shows here is different. Less scripted. What is so bad with what he said? Do we really need an "over the moon" comment?
As for him looking beat. He is into his 50s people. That is what happens. You age. Damned if you get a lift damned if you don't.
I don't see anything wrong with what he said. I'd rather an honest, real response than some PR bullshit about a kid he didn't plan on having. I couldn't have said as a new parent that I was 100% comfortable with my oldest or understood right away how he would change me. It has to be even more that way for a father who, if I understand, isn't with the mother and doesn't have a full time relationship anyway.
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I still say that a trust fund with certain conditions should still be established just in case something happens to him before she reaches age of majority.
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Submitted by IrishFury on Tue, 03/20/2012 - 12:32pm.
Before Hugh gets slated for saying what he said, this is how he talks. I think he thinks he sounds all British and eccentric and artsy. But the American way of fawning is as bad "when I see my baby, it's like stars in the sky and sunshine on a dewy morn...".
They should all just shut the fuck up.
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AMEN! So he's honest/sarcastic, so what? I am so burnt out on Stepford hussies bugging me about when I'm going to "take on the most important job of your life - MOMMYHOOD which is all rainbows and sparkles but harder than anything else on the whole planet and popping something out your vajayjay is the equivalent of being 20 different stressful degree-requiring occupations!" that I can't get all riled up about Hugh. That kid is still a lot better off than many others.
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Oh my God! Seriously people. Hugh is NOT one of the bad guys. Maybe in the US you don't know much about him but I have a massive amount of respect how he has dealt with the phone tapping scandal here and his testimony at the Levenson inquiry. The guy set up a journalist who had taped him by taping the journalist revealing all sorts of shit. I LOVE HUGH.
As for not setting up a trustfund. Good for him. Chelsea and Kensington etc are full of these morons. You only have to look around you in London to know that that kind of privilege should be earned not given.
Christ no hate from me at all. The man is funny, and I liked him in a lot of movies. So GO HUGH.
He's right about the trust fund useless thing. I just hope he's not using it as an excuse to be a cheap ass where his daughter is concerned.
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and as for Hugh, not everuone has to be overtly over the moon about their crotchfruits, ya know, people, esp one you had with a fling
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Submitted by DirtyWhoreMouth on Sat, 06/11/2011 - 9:32am.
It's ok to be a redneck by the way.. just don't yell git 'er done because we all hate that.
He was surprisingly good in "Sense and Sensibility" with Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, and the always sexay Alan Rickman.
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I dunno, he always seemed to be much like his Daniel Cleaver character from Bridget Jones - the cowardly cad who seems to only care about himself.
I have a feeling Daniel Cleaver is more likable than Hugh.
This idiot never wanted kids so why didn't he just get a V like Clooney did and be done with it? He was cute for five minutes in Four Weddings. Now he looks like a beat old drunken mouf breedah.
Oh Hugh. You do know that you're not obligated to heap millions into your daughter's trust fund, right? And that you can have full control on how/where/when she spends the trust, like on her education? And that a trust will guarantee that the money will go to your daughter, and not into the (presumably) gold-digging hands of the baby mama?
Oh Hugh. I've loved you since Champagne Charlie. Not so much anymore.
He should have stuck to hooker head in the alley way. Some people don't know how to parent.
Submitted by Dog on Tue, 03/20/2012 - 12:42pm.
Could he possibly sound more like a bloody Pom?
Nope.
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He knows it, too. I saw him on the Graham Norton Show, and he was talking about his posh accent and way of speaking. He said that it gets worse when he's annoyed. Hmmmmmm. Bet he was annoyed with the interviewer.
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Hugh cannot possibly be 'over the moon' with saddlebags like that. He needs to call up George Clooney's plastic surgeon and get an eye job too.
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this is like Johnny Depp, only chix like his dumb not hot face because chix are gay.
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Submitted by stinkbutt on Mon, 03/29/2010 - 5:47pm.
suckandfuck, do us all a favor, and hang yourself. Oh, and your parents should be shot for raising a disgusting pig like yourself.
Dayum, he looks tired! Leading a decadent, smarmy lifestyle will do that. I used to like him in his 4 Weddings/Love Actually but I would NOT hit it nowadays given his history of smarm.
He sounds peeved at being a babydaddy.
Well that's what happens when you have bareback sex with some random slut - parenthood! Next time wrap that willy.
And this little girl will have daddy issues, for sure. Grrrrreat. Kids can be fucked up even without trust funds, Hugh. If, for example, their fathers regard them as nuisances they can barely muster any "like" for.
Also if she has hardly changed his life, how can her existence have made him a "better person"? Better how? That "better" line sounds like some BS thrown in there because it is expected to say something like that.
No more floppy hair. The greys have set in :-(
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makes me wanna email him offering to be his "sugar momma cougar beard"
He should set up a trust fund for his daughter.
He can make having a job (or actively seeking a job) or being school to learn a trade or career as a condition of receiving trust money.
Failure to do so for more than a year would result in the trust fund being given over to a charity such as OxFam.
Thus, he can ensure that his daughter is taken care of without her being another Parasite.
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I absolutely adore Hugh... whether he is rockin' that what time does cocktail hour start here? party face, or not.
He looks beat because this is how REAL people age sans botox and plastic surgery. That baby is better off with him in the distance.
Before Hugh gets slated for saying what he said, this is how he talks. I think he thinks he sounds all British and eccentric and artsy. But the American way of fawning is as bad "when I see my baby, it's like stars in the sky and sunshine on a dewy morn...".
They should all just shut the fuck up.
And the reason the child hasn't affected him is because he pretty much has nothing to do with the little girl. Pays Mama and shows up a few times a month. Any hands on father will tell you that a new baby totally changes their lives.
He has and always will be a smart-assed little boy-man. The only role he can play is "charming English rascal" and is as annoying as HELL in interviews.
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Damn, he looks beat! I used to think he was soooo cute too. :(