Hugh Grant has not less than one particular person in his nook amid the backlash over his awkward AF interview with Ashley Graham!
For those that don’t know, the Notting Hill star had a cringe-worthy interview with the 35-year-old mannequin throughout ABC’s Oscars pre-show on Sunday. Hugh gave a number of curt responses to her questions, principally giving her little or no to work with, after which he rolled his eyes at Ashley when their dialog was performed!
Although many individuals thought the 62-year-old actor was being impolite in direction of Ashley, his longtime pal and former Music and Lyrics co-star Drew Barrymore noticed it as Hugh being his basic “grumpy” self. While speaking about how Hugh stated “her singing is just horrendous” in a video interview for WIRED’s Autocomplete Interview, the 48-year-old actress got here to his protection over his purple carpet interview. She stated on Friday’s episode of The Drew Barrymore Show:
“If you know Hugh, that is his way of loving you. It’s funny too because there’s this thing going around with like him and Ashley Graham on the red carpet and people are like ‘Oh he’s such a curmudgeon and she’s so thrown,’ and I’m like ‘No, that is Hugh Grant.’”
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The Never Been Kissed star continued:
“You think you’re getting this charming movie star and what you really get is grumpy Hugh. And then you fall in love with grumpy Hugh. When he says that, I’m telling you, he is being absolutely funny. He doesn’t mean one negative thing about it. The person that Ashley Graham met on that carpet is the real Hugh.”
Yeah… We don’t know if that could be a good factor. Drew then famous that it even took her a “second” to get used to Hugh’s persona and habits earlier than rising to “love” him:
“Probably like Ashley Graham on the carpet, like, ‘who am I dealing with?’ And then I was like, oh, no, I love you. I want to love you. You’re not letting me love you. As I got to know him, I was like I do love you. I love you for the real you. He is a hilarious, good human being.”
While he may very well be a “good human being,” that doesn’t imply he wasn’t appearing very impolite towards Ashley. Just saying! But the momma of three doesn’t appear to be letting his poor angle trouble her proper now! You can ch-ch-check out her total dialogue on the Hugh and Ashley scenario (under):
Drew responds to Hugh Grant’s feedback about her singing in “Music and Lyrics.” pic.twitter.com/ato2vAauOt
— The Drew Barrymore Show (@DrewBarrymoreTV) March 17, 2023
As for her response to Hugh calling her singing “horrendous?” Drew additionally shared a hilarious video on Instagram of herself with a hairbrush in hand as she sings Way Back to Love – the tune their characters write in Music and Lyrics. Watch it (under):
What do YOU assume, Perezcious readers? Do you are feeling Hugh was being impolite to Ashley? Or do you assume it was only a basic Hugh second, as Drew stated? Sound OFF within the feedback under.
[Image via The Drew Barrymore Show/Twitter, ABC/YouTube, WENN/Avalon]