A Quote by – Hugh Grant

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Author Name:

Hugh Grant

Born As:

Hugh John Mungo Grant.

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Born:

09 Sep 1960

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Grant published an article in the New Statesman entitled "The Bugger, Bugged" - April, 2011.                          
                          
News of the World phone hacking affair:

In April 2011 Grant published an article in the New Statesman entitled "The Bugger, Bugged", about a conversation following a chance encounter with Paul McMullan, former journalist and paparazzo for News of the World. In unguarded comments which were secretly taped by Grant, McMullan alleged that editors at the Daily Mail and News of the World, particularly Andy Coulson, had ordered journalists to engage in illegal phone tapping and had done so with the full knowledge of senior British politicians. McMullan also said that every British Prime Minister from Margaret Thatcher onwards had cultivated a close relationship with Rupert Murdoch and his senior executives. He stressed the friendship between David Cameron and Rebekah Brooks (née Wade), agreeing when asked that both of them must have been aware of illegal phone tapping, and asserting that Cameron's inaction could be explained by self-interest.