Hugh Grant’s Dating History Over the Years

From bachelor to family man! Hugh Grant he once said he didn’t believe in monogamy – but that was before his marriage Anna Eberstein.
THE True love star tied the knot in 2018, but his love life has been a topic of conversation since the eighties. Grant made headlines in 1987 when he and Remando Al Viento costar Elizabeth Hurley started dating – and again in 1995 when he cheated on her.
The pair were one of England’s hottest couples before they called it quits in 2000 after 13 years together. However, their relationship was not without flaws. In 1995, Grant was caught having an affair with a sex worker Divine brunette, which he later attributed to his lack of self-confidence as an actor. (She and Hurley weathered the cheating scandal, but eventually called it quits in 2000.)
“I was preparing to release my first Hollywood film – my timing was impeccable. My problem was that it was my first Hollywood movie and I was new to it Rewrite explained the actor during an appearance in March 2021 Marc MaronHis “WTF” podcast. “The film came out a week or two after that and I had a bad feeling about it. I went to see a screening. Everyone was brilliant in it, but I was so terrible that I wasn’t in the right frame of mind.”
Despite Grant’s indiscretions — and their breakup — the U.K. native “remains my best friend to this day, but … he used to annoy me a lot,” Hurley said on the show in March 2015. Watch What Happens With Andy Cohen live. “I love him, but he’s really annoying.”
Grant echoed his ex’s sentiments during a 2018 interview The Jess Cagle lecture. “We’re like brothers and sisters,” he admitted. “I think it’s partly because we went from nothing to somewhere together, and we went through some terrible years at the beginning, when neither of us had a job, we lived in a tiny apartment. I was quite impressed.”
While Grant and Hurley’s relationship has remained intact over the years, the road to marriage was a little more complex. THE Notting Hill The actor raised eyebrows in the mid-2000s when he welcomed three children back-to-back with two different women.
The two-time Emmy nominee fathered his daughter Tabitha with his girlfriend for the first time in the fall of 2011. Tinglan Hong. A year later, she and Eberstein welcomed their son, John. A few months later, Grant and Hong became parents to son Felix in February 2013.
Despite being in his 50s, a Gentlemen actor has decided to embrace fatherhood and all that it has to offer.
“It made me a lot nicer,” Grant said Us Weekly He became a parent in February 2015. “One of my children is very obsessive about saying goodbye – he’s only 2 years old – to everyone, including the man who delivers the groceries, whoever he is. He has to hug and kiss me and I find that very charming.”
Until the Paddington star was excited to be a father, he still wasn’t sure if he would say “I do” to partner Eberstein, with whom he had two more children between 2015 and 2018.
“If you ask me, ‘Do I think human beings should be in monogamous, committed relationships for 40 years?’ No, no, Grant said Howard Stern on his SiriusXM radio show in August 2016. “Who said they were? I think there is something romantic about marriage. You shut yourself down.”
Two years later the Withdrawal alum sze Eberstein. He confessed in June 2018 Today they show that marriage is “really beautiful. I can’t pretend it isn’t.” Grant added: “I should have done it earlier! But I’m just lucky, I’m lucky. I have a great wife. I love him, yes.”
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