Two of my favorite people in the world were in the same room together, and one of them was drunk! So says Hugh Grant (the drunk one), who told Access Hollywood a fabulous little story about the Queen. Apparently, he had a few and decided to ask Her Majesty about her true feelings on the paparazzi, and whether she ever felt like giving a photographer a good smack. Her reaction? “No, I don’t and don’t tell Harry.” Ha! To be fair to the Queen, it’s not like she gets photographed coming out some hip club in the middle of the night (although, how cool would that be?). Prince Harry’s relationship to the paparazzi is entirely different than the Queen’s. The Queen is not only protected 24 hours a day by lots of armed guards, she doesn’t really go to places where the hot celebrities are.

In “Did You Hear About The Morgans?,” the normally well-dressed Hugh Grant strips down to a very uncharacteristic shorts and T-shirt look. Hugh shows off some toned legs and fit forearms in his new film, and Access Hollywood’s Billy Bush found out how the heartthrob got them in shape.

“I have a wonderful Swedish girl, she’s a model, who takes me to the park, thrice a week,” Hugh told Billy of his workout routine.

Hugh said his toned frame is the result of a blood pumping workout.

”[She] throws sticks for me like a dog and makes me pick up heavy things and it has made me a bit butcher than I used to be,” he explained.

While workouts get the Brit revved up, it’s something else entirely that gets his blood boiling – the paparazzi. In fact, Hugh revealed he once badmouthed the snappers during a chat with Britain’s Queen.

“I was introduced to The Queen. She was charming and I said — I was a bit drunk – I said, ‘Do you ever get annoyed by paparazzi? Do you ever get tempted to whack them with your bag?’” he revealed. “And she said (in a Queen-style voice), ‘No I don’t and don’t tell Harry.’ Because of course, her grandson, Harry, feels the same way as I do about paps and often gives them a whack.”

Hugh expressed sympathy with the Royal Family, who are increasing paparazzi targets, due in part to the love lives of The Queen’s grandsons, William and Harry.

“They’ve certainly made the life of her family a bit of a misery,” Hugh said of the paps Royal Family focus. “She’s just got tough about it recently because one of her homes out in Kent, they put their long lenses over the walls and take pictures.They’re really just trying to get Prince William and [his longtime girlfriend], Kate Middleton.”

As for his own troubles with the paparazzi, Hugh made light of some of the things he’s done in the past when he’s found photographers in places he didn’t quite expect.

“Well our understanding is that I hit them, I kick them and then I get arrested. It’s happened twice in the last two years. That works quite well,” he told Billy sarcastically.

[From Access Hollywood]

I always thought Hugh was a monarchist, bless his heart. He probably gets weepy for the Queen’s Christmas address, and ten bucks says he’s had at least one sex dream about Her Majesty. Ah, Hugh. I’d love to get drunk with him. I imagine it would involve a lot of prank phone calls, celebrity impressions and breast fondling. I’m totally game for that.

Speaking of Hugh and drinking, over the weekend he told another funny story about one liquor-soaked night in which he ended up buying a famous Andy Warhol painting on a whim:

Hugh Grant has confessed he was drunk when he bought a painting of Elizabeth Taylor that later made him an £11million profit.

The actor was lauded as an art connoisseur when he bought the work by Andy Warhol for £2million. And he was praised as a master of timing when he sold it six years later for £13million. But the star has now admitted that his windfall had little to do with an eye for art.

Grant, 49, had been on a two-day drinking spree when he ordered an assistant to bid for the painting at an auction in New York. He said: ‘And to my horror, she did, and even worse, got it.’

He added: ‘It all began with drink. I’d been having a drunken dinner with my father the night before, and I said, “We ought to go see my brother Jamie. You know, the Concorde’s amazing. And he said, “I hear it is.” So I bought him a Concorde ticket and we went. We had lunch, drank a lot of beer. And I was thinking about some stuff in the Sotheby’s auction and I saw the Liz Taylor. I slightly regret selling it now, even though it made me rich.’

The actor admitted not all of his drunken gestures were as well rewarded. Far from enjoying the supersonic trip to New York, his father was unimpressed. Grant said: ‘Halfway across the Atlantic, he’s saying, “Well, it’s all very nice, but frankly I prefer Air Kuwait” – his usual way of getting to New York.’

[From The Daily Mail]

Now I really want to get drunk with him! He buys art and chats with the Queen when he’s wasted! He’s so classy! And it sounds like he gets a lot of his spunk from his dad, too.

Hugh Grant (and Sarah Jessica Parker) at the New York premiere of ‘Did You Hear About the Morgans?’ on December 14, 2009.

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