English actor, Hugh Grant revealed about his previous condition that contracted Covid-19 in the early this year. The actor shared his experience and detailing his battled with the disease and his role being a father during quarantine.
In his first appearance on a virtual talk show since Covid-19, Hugh Grant and his wife, Anna Eberstein, had contracted corona virus while in London. The couple had not been tested at the time, the Golden Globe winner, Hugh Grant, revealed he had some serious symptoms.
“It started as just a very strange syndrome where I kept breaking into a terrible sweat. It was like a poncho of sweat, embarrassing really.”
“Then my eyeballs felt about three sizes too big and this feeling as though some enormous man was sitting on my chest, sort of Harvey Weinstein or someone,” Grant jokingly, referring to the disgraced movie mogul.
“I thought, ‘I don’t know what this is,’ and then I was walking down the street one day and I thought ‘I can’t smell a damn thing,’ and you start to panic, cause by then people were just starting to talk about this as a symptom,”
“And I start sniffing flowers, nothing. And then you get more and more desperate. I started sniffing garbage cans and then you want to sniff strangers’ armpits because you can’t smell anything. I eventually went home and sprayed my wifes’ Chanel no.5 directly into my face.”
And most fun and enjoy things during quarantine with his toddlers, Hugh Grant told to Stephen Colbert about Barbie Girls in his funny way.
“It’s been all about barbies.” At one point he realized, “even after my girls went to be I was still playing with the Barbies… and I enjoyed making them fall in love.”
The actor continues, “Well, one of them was Barbie and one of them was Elsa, I think, from Frozen.” Hugh Grant recalled, “And they developed an affair. I took photographs of them kissing each other and sent them to friends. That’s what happens in a really long lockdown.”
The 60-years-old actor, Hugh Grant is a daddy to Tabitha, 9, Felix, 7, from his realtionship with Tinglan Hong and John, 8 and two more kids with his wife, Anna Eberstein.
As an actor who expanding his talent during quarantine, Hugh Grant not only best with creating Barbie doll love scenario, but also good hair stylist.
“I started by cutting my daughter’s Barbies’ hair out of sheer boredom,” he said Good Morning America. “And then I discovered I was extremely talented.
“Then I started cutting my children’s hair, whether they wanted a haircut or not. I just strapped them to a chair and cut their hair.”
Just like any father, being a dad is not just as easy and has always right parenting. Hugh Grant who became a father at 51, admitted that his parenting can be taken the wrong time. But overall, he said, “I have no complaints; I’m one of the lucky ones. Having said that, I’m quite old and my children are very young and I can’t say that’s entirely easy.”
Other celebrities and famous people who had contracted the corona virus include Tom Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson, British actor Idris Elba, the Rock Dwayne Johnson, Twilight star Robert Pattinson, Braveheart actor Mel Gibson, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau‘s wife, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, Antonio Banderas, Singer Pink and the Bond girl Olga Kurylenko.
