It looks like British heiress Jemima Khan is not dating Guy Ritchie. Khan was spotted out with her former (and current?) lover Hugh Grant. They went to dinner, and Hugh apparently tried to get her loaded. Yep, sounds right. I totally buy that Hugh Grant is the kind of date to try to get the girl drunk. That being said, I would still want to go on at least one date with him… weird, I know. The Telegraph has details about the latest in the Hugh Grant-Jemima Khan are-they or are-they-not together already saga:

When Hugh Grant announced that he was separating from Jemima Khan in 2007 after a three-year relationship, his spokesman was keen to stress that the break-up was “amicable”. Since Mandrake disclosed last month that the pair had enjoyed a cosy meal at Bentley’s restaurant in Mayfair, their friendship seems to be regaining its old spark.

…Last week, Grant, 48, took the daughter of the late tycoon Sir James Goldsmith out to celebrate her 35th birthday, which had been a few days earlier. The pair indulged in another intimate lunch à deux, this time at Olivomare, a fashionable Italian restaurant in Belgravia.

“You would never guess that they had ever split up,” says a fellow diner. “Jemima looked radiant and very relaxed in his company. He seemed his usual diffident self, but kept pouring her wine and she kept laughing at his jokes.”

Demurely, Jemima, who has two sons from her nine-year marriage to Imran Khan, the former Pakistan cricket captain, declines to comment. She and Grant have always avoided talking about their relationship, which once appeared to be going so well that there was speculation they would marry.

The actor, who remains best known for his role as a reluctant groom in Four Weddings and a Funeral, has never married.

“I’d like to get married but I’m horrified by the lack of passion that can result from the passing of time,” he once remarked. “Nine out of 10 of my friends’ marriages are a f—— mess.” He has, however, also remained close to Elizabeth Hurley, with whom he had a 13-year relationship.

From The Sunday Telegraph

Hugh gets a bad rap – most of it totally deserved. But I give him a lot of credit for maintaining a seemingly solid relationship with Liz Hurley, and even being one of many surrogate fathers for her son Damien. It wouldn’t surprise me if he and Jemima Khan are back together, but they’ll probably split up again, and do the whole thing all over.

I sometimes wonder if such “established bachelors” like Hugh Grant and George Clooney will ever marry. Maybe they’re doing the honorable thing, not getting hitched – they’re both pretty screwed up about women and commitment in general, maybe it’s best they just leave it to other people.

Hugh Grant and Jemima Khan are shown out together on 9/9/08. Credit: Bauergriffinonline

I know who Jemima Khan is for two reasons: she dated Hugh Grant and Vanity Fair won’t shut up about her family, The Goldsmiths. Seriously, Vanity Fair has been stuck on them for a couple of years- there’s been several articles about the passing of her father, Sir James Goldsmith, and his various restaurants, properties, affairs, personal issues. So by this rationale, I’m thinking the late Sir James Goldsmith was like the English landed-gentry version of Donald Trump. And my idea of knights and lords is stuck in Jane Austen-ville, by the way.

Apparently Jemima Khan is more than a Vanity Fair’s fetish and “one of the best-dressed women in the world”. She’s also making eyes at Madonna’s ex, Guy Ritchie. Judging solely from Khan’s general prettiness, I’d say she is a vast improvement for Guy.

Guy Ritchie is shown on the set of Sherlock Holmes on 12/21/08. Jemima Khan is shown on 10/15/08 at the London Film Festival. Credit: WENN

Just as their divorce settlement was making news, Madonna’s ex-husband, Guy Ritchie, appeared to be celebrating his freedom and the holidays with someone new – millionaire heiress Jemima Khan.

The two attended a London dinner party together earlier this month at the home public-relations honcho Matthew Freud and his wife, Elisabeth Murdoch, daughter of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, reports London’s Telegraph newspaper.

Khan, 33, is the socialite daughter of Lady Annabel Goldsmith (for whom the London nightclub was named) and the late financier Sir James Goldsmith. In 1995, she married Pakistani cricket player (now retired) Imran Khan, and they had two sons, now 12 and 9. The couple divorced in 2004, and she was later attached to actor Hugh Grant, though that relationship has ended, say British newspapers.

Returning to the Freuds’ home for a Christmas party this weekend, Ritchie and Khan joined such other holiday revelers as Stella and Mary McCartney, Lily Allen, Mick Jagger and Kevin Spacey, reports the Mirror.

At that earlier dinner party at the Freuds’ Notting Hill home, says the Telegraph, another of the guests was Trudie Styler, wife of Sting – and the matchmaker who had first introduced Ritchie and Madonna in 1999.

[From People]

Is this definitive proof? Absolutely not. But it makes some kind of sense. We know Guy has a type – rich women who behave like aristocrats. It’s Guy’s Achilles heel. Flash some cash and throw a drink in someone’s face, and Guy will be trying to get into your pants. We need to save him from himself. I’ll give him credit, though – at least he chose an authentic “aristocrat” (my Class-Warrior Meter is going crazy, by the way), rather than some chick from Detroit with bigger (gristlier) muscles than him.

I’m also going to go out on a limb and say that I want to be invited to these cool parties. Guy Ritchie, Mick Jagger, Lily Allen and Kevin Spacey? Who will go home with whom at the end of the night? I wonder if “matchmaker” Trudie Styler was working that night.

Wow, can you believe that Hugh Grant and Jemima Khan have broken up? I guess I can…their three year relationship in which Hugh was domesticated by Jemima and primped to be a doting husband ended amicably– even despite the fact that Hugh has a roving eye and was a total douche. Hell, if I was Jemima, I would have put blinders on that horse face.

When Barbara Walters noted that he’d been “domesticated” by Khan, whom she described as “pretty attractive and pretty intelligent,” Grant said, “I agree with you, I think she’s a cracker. She doesn’t need my help anyway.”

According to Treebeard’s Concise Dictionary of British Slang, it means, “splendid and wonderful.”

I’m glad that Jemima finally dumped this loser. She seems like a really nice lady (see, you don’t have to call people, cracker, Hugh). I mean, she’s a UN Ambassador for Unicef and donates to a cancer hospital– she even started her own brand of ketchup! What do you do, Hugh? Spread diseases.

Photos courtesy of Style.com and Fametastic.

The amusing evil that is the 3am Girls at The Daily Mirror add some catchy lyrics to the ho-hum music of Hugh Grant’s love life

HUGH Grant’s roving eye has sparked another public spat with Jemima Khan – their second in as many weeks. While Hugh schmoozed the ladies at the post-premiere party of his latest film, Music And Lyrics, on Monday night, his girlfriend of three years was left alone and stony-faced sitting in the corner.

Now stony faced is really one of the better looks on Jemima Khan, whose face is not really her best asset. She occupies that odd rarefied position of the resident hugely horse-faced British IT girl — of some years standing with no discernible talent, charm or accomplishment. Jemima does possess a posh background, money, and has one interesting marriage to a cricket star behind her: this somehow equals tabloid glamour in the UK.

The last few years she has been working as the monogamy placeholder for Hugh Grant … the sort of post-Hurley girly that he walks around while getting up to all sorts of mischief in his doddering confirmed bachelor way

At one point, 46-year-old Hugh was overheard saying: “I can’t kiss too many more women tonight as I’ve already had a row with Jemima!” Oops…

Not that surprising when you realize their last public row was when he took her out on a tour of his old Divine Brown haunts. Almost like he’s asking for trouble … or the Universe is delivering it free of charge … surely he should be permanently avoiding Sunset Boulevard

This isn’t the only time the couple have fallen out in public. Last month, Hugh yelled at Jemima after they were left stranded on LA’s Sunset Boulevard – the very spot where he picked up hooker Divine Brown – because their car didn’t turn up after lunch.

And just last week, guests at Jemima’s 33rd birthday party at The George in Mayfair were astounded to hear Hugh accuse her of being a “dictator” and a nag – after Jemima had made a joke about him being a commitment-phobe.

Given that he blew up on a talk show yesterday when the “When you gonna marry Jemima” Question was asked …doesnt seem like she was wrong … doesnt seem like she should hang around much longer. Why the long face Jemima … is it Hugh or were you just born that way.

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