Hugh Grant is a father for the fourth time in four years, by his second baby-mama

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We knew it was happening! In October, the Daily Mail (and other outlets) reported that Hugh Grant was expecting his fourth child in four years… with his second baby-mama. Tinglan Hong was his first baby-mama, and she gave birth to Tabitha and Felix, born in 2011 and 2013 respectively. At the same time as Hugh was dealing with Tinglan, he also knocked up his more “official” girlfriend, Anna Eberstein. Eberstein gave birth to son John Mungo Grant in 2012. And now Anna has given birth again, and yet again it’s another Grant baby.

Hugh Grant has become a father for the fourth time after his Swedish girlfriend Anna Eberstein gave birth, MailOnline can reveal. The 55-year-old actor has gone from having no children to being a father of four in just four years. His fourth love child was born to Ms Eberstein, 37, on Wednesday, Swedish regional newspaper Sundsvall Tinding reported.

‘Anna Eberstein from Sundsvall has had her second child with film star Hugh Grant,’ it said. ‘The newest member of the family saw the light of day for the first time last Wednesday.’

Ms Eberstein, who is mother to Mr Grant’s second child, John, and the wider family are said to be overjoyed by the birth. Her delighted mother Susanne, a judge and prominent left-wing politician, confirmed to Swedish newspaper Örnsköldsviks Allehanda the baby, her second grandchild, had been born.

‘I can confirm that I have another grandchild,’ she said. ‘It is wonderful that we now have grandchildren [more than one grandchild].’

In October it emerged that Ms Eberstein, 37, was pregnant for a second time, although neither party have responded to questions about the paternity of the child. The couple have bought a villa on the Sweden’s south coast to be close to Ms Eberstein’s family, according to Sundsvall Tinding. The Four Weddings and a Funeral actor’s name appears alongside hers on the top line of a publicly available purchase letter for a £600,000 seaside home in Havskontakt in the south-west of Sweden.

[From The Daily Mail]

While this is one of the most unconventional arrangements I’ve ever witnessed, it doesn’t seem like any of the legal adults have any problems with the strangeness of the situation. And in case you’re wondering if poor Tinglan got the short end of the stick (so to speak) because she’s never been trotted out as Hugh’s official girlfriend… well, Hugh did buy Tinglan a house, allegedly. He apparently bought her a luxurious townhouse close to his home, and to hear him tell it, he’s welcome over at Tinglan’s house all the time, and he sees Felix and Tabitha often. I’m guessing Tinglan got a nice financial settlement and everyone gets along… for now. But Anna might be getting some ideas about finally “landing” England’s version of George Clooney.

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  1. suze says:

    The new late middle age rich man’s hobby! Maybe he should just set up his own sperm bank?

    I’m sure it’s all fine and good among the participants involved. Money is spread around and all the adults are getting what they want, and the kids are probably fine.

    So, congrats. I guess. Good on ya, Hugh, keep procreating. Pull a couple of other women into the process, while you are at it. I want to see a baby a year until you’re sixty.

    • Original T.C. says:

      Suze it’s more like what older men used to do. Since Biblical times the practice of taking financial care of multiple female partners and their children otherwise known as polygamy! Different households and the same Dad.

      It always goes well until the kids start getting into their teens then jealous begins. Tale as old as time.

  2. Sochan says:

    And yet he wouldn’t have even one baby with Liz Hurley in the 13 years they were together. Wow.

    • Zip says:

      So what? Why should he have a baby when he (or she? or both?) does not want one? Just because they have been together for some years?

    • Jayna says:

      They were both heavy into their careers. You say wouldn’t even have one with Liz. What makes you think at the time she wanted one?

      • Kristen says:

        C’mon, you guys. Don’t play dumb. You know that all women want tons of babies. If only our men would give us more of them 🙁 🙁 🙁

    • Ethelreda says:

      Aside from the fact that there’s no reason to believe Liz even wanted a baby at the time, men don’t ‘owe’ women children. I’m sure all of us would be very much against the notion that a woman should have a baby just to please the man in her life. So surely we should extend the same courtesy to men?

      • Minxx says:

        Maybe she didn’t want a baby at the time but then soon after she went on to have a baby with someone who denied paternity. Who remembers that scandal?

      • Ethelreda says:

        Yes, she just so happened to get pregnant with the billionaire Steve Bing!

        And I don’t think he denied paternity. He just said that Liz and he didn’t have an ‘exclusive relationship’ (ouch!) but that if paternity tests proved he was the father – as indeed they did – he would be happy to support his child. That sounds reasonable enough to me tbh. Bing could hardly deny paternity in any case – the boy is the image of him!

      • anna says:

        come on though do you really think he truly desires to have one. Or he is feeling his age at 55 and instead of buying a sports car, makes some babies.

  3. Danielle says:

    Who says she’s trying to “land” him. He seems like a pill, and I bet he’d be a pain to live with full time. This way she gets financial help, cute kids, and hopefully small doses of hugh.

  4. GoodNamesAllTaken says:

    Good grief.

    • Locke Lamora says:

      Why? He seems happy, the women seem happy, the kids seem happy, everyone’s happy. If it works for them, God bless.

      I like Hugh, he’s a lot of fun in interviews, but he strikes me as someone who would be a hard guy to date.

      • suze says:

        Do we know if anyone is happy? You certainly can’t tell from photos. No one is putting out any “happy statements”.

        We just know it keeps happening, so we assume it benefits the participants.

      • GoodNamesAllTaken says:

        That wasn’t a big judgment of any kind. Just a lot of kids in a short time, a lot of changes for him in four years. It sort of amazes me since I couldn’t manage to squeeze out one baby in twenty years. Lol

      • Locke Lamora says:

        I guess everyone is happy because usually the media woukd report something. Who knows, but it LOOKS like it’s working.
        And yeah, GNAT, that’s a lot of kids in a short time

      • suze says:

        Well, and also, if this were a woman, or a man with fewer resources or a less “irascible yet lovable” persona, judgement would be a flying all over.

        Grant can do what he wants. No, he isn’t hurting anyone. But we can snark because it’s just a snarkable situation.

      • Pinky says:

        @suze “It keeps happening” Lol!

        This man managed to free willy with a vengeance. He never wanted kids or to get married, which, yes, did contribute to the Hurley breakup, and now he’s spraying sperm all over the place. Plug your hose, Hugh. The lawn’s watered and there’s a drought in California. Wastrel.

      • PrincessMe says:

        OMG, Pinky. My eyes are watering and I’m trying to contain my laughter (I am at work after all). That description is… bwahahahaha.

      • AnotherDirtyMartini says:

        @Pinky – dying laughing!!! 😆😂😆 The mental images flying through my brain!!

    • Sixer says:

      GNAT – I think he’s building up an anti-hacking descendant army for the next generation. The fight against Rupert MUST go on!

    • Ennie says:

      GNAT, I’m in the same situation as you, and seeing this I bet if we walked past Hugh and he looked at us, we probably could end up pregnant! Guy is dangerous.
      He really wants to have those babies, he managed to dodge paternity for a long time.

  5. Jayna says:

    Well, it seems like he and Anna are in a relationship as they are seen together a lot, and she wanted a second child, not just an arrangement to have another of his babies or an oops, like the first one with her.

    I love the name John, the name of their first child.

    But he spends a lot of time with his children at his age,not acting as much year round, so if it works, who am I to judge? But it is a riot that he had no children all of these years and now four so close together by two different women.

  6. OSTONE says:

    Most Powerful Sperm: Hugh or Jude Law? Discuss.

  7. Jayna says:

    I find it amazing how he keeps his children out of paparazzi photos. John, the son with Anna, is the only one to actually be seen facewise when he was out with mom and dad, and that was only once. Three kids and none of them are papped often or at all. Anna was pushing him in a stroller in the early months, but no photo of the child in the stroller. The other two I’ve never seen.

    I commend him for that and the women.

  8. Dash says:

    This is such a strange situation. The way he goes back and forth between the two in terms of when the babies have been born… Fascinating.

    • Jayna says:

      What is really strange is I assumed that Hugh was so happy with his first child and has praised Tinglan as such a good mother and they got along that why not have a second with her at his age, not getting any younger, since the arrangement with them worked. Then I figured Anna came into his life and got knocked up.

      But actually Anna got pregnant before Tinglan did by like three months.

      Very strange overlap indeed with those two pregnancies but vice versa of what I had assumed.

    • GingerCrunch says:

      I think he’s set it up this way purposely so he doesn’t have to commit all his time to one wife and family. I’d venture to say he never has the kids by himself, for any significant amount of time anyway. Just pops in til he’s had enough. No different than all these baby daddies running around today and everyone’s extremely well taken care of. The new fatherhood, huh?

      • Jayna says:

        They all live within walking distance. Liz Hurley I thought said he has the kids over to his house all the time. I’m sure with a nanny from the mom’s house, though.

      • GingerCrunch says:

        Must be nice! Especially in the neighborhood he can afford! Sheesh

  9. LAK says:

    Reading this post, i’m strongly reminded of Jimmy Goldsmith the billionaire and his trail of women and children from South America to France via a pitstop in London.

    • Natalie says:

      Yes, I was thinking the same thing. Hugh did date Jemima Khan for years. Maybe that’s where he picked up the idea.

    • Ennie says:

      He (Goldsmith) was credited with the quote that goes something like this: “When you marry your mistress, you create a new job vacancy”.
      If everyone is an adult and happy… Besides the Goldsmiths, see also the Borromeo family.

  10. Eleonor says:

    This is fun.
    He wasn’t into babies at all, and after the first one he can’t stop himself.

    • SloaneY says:

      Well, yeah. I mean, kids are easy when you don’t live with them and can just “visit whenever you want”. 🙄

      • snowflake says:

        Exactly.

      • Ethelreda says:

        Yeah, from what I gather, Hugh’s relationship to the kids is more like that of an uncle than a traditional father. For a very wealthy man like Hugh, having kids is no big deal. It’s not like he had to go through pregancy and childbirth (obviously) and he’s so rich that he can afford to have them raised in luxury and not miss the money. And given that he doesn’t live with the children, it appears they don’t impinge too much on his lifestyle either.

        What’s not to like, I suppose?

    • Janis says:

      I wonder if spending time with Liz Hurley’s son and seeing parenthood through her eyes made him change is mind about becoming a Dad himself. Also, I wonder if the half-sibs know about each other and spend time together. Strange, and potentially awkward, if they don’t.

  11. Sarah01 says:

    I think definition of family is ever changing. He has created a family that works for him, the partners are aware that he’s not going to run off, but likes his freedom he takes financial care of his family and is probably around enough for the kids to be giddy that daddy is here let the fun begin! If all involved are happy and content then it’s a good situation for all.
    I’ve seen miserable parents who are not engaging with their kids that bothers me.

  12. Wren33 says:

    Well it is certainly odd, but also given their respective ages and maybe a desire for him/her and her to give their children full blood siblings, I guess it makes sense. I mean, if you want four kids right in a row, spreading out the job between multiple women might be a blessing in disguise.

  13. Em' says:

    He spent time vacationing near my home town, this summer, with Tinglan and their two kids. I saw them.
    They were with someone else, but I can’t tell if it was Anna, though there were 3 kids.

  14. Christin says:

    If this works for all of them, then great. It will be interesting to see how things are in 5 to 10 years. Will he have more kids, maybe one or two more mothers involved, or will one or both mothers be less receptive to the arrangement?

    So many possibilities…

  15. boredblond says:

    How about this—the women have their separate fully staffed big houses, and the four kids live with this oh so devoted daddy…moms can stop by and spend a few minutes with the kids each day.

    • Janis says:

      LOL! Sounds like heaven actually especially since the kids are on Christmas vacation right now and are bouncing off the walls. Oh, my sanity!

    • suze says:

      I think this is a splendid scenario!

      Or better yet, the moms can have the kids over “all the time!” to visit. Or Liz Hurley can – at the very least – report to the media that the kids “are at the mothers houses super frequently and the moms are very involved”!

      Bet they would be handing out mom of the year awards to both of them.

  16. Minxx says:

    So Hugh has a harem and everyone is (supposedly) happy. OK. I’m not sure how the first (unofficial) baby-mama feels about the second (official) baby mama. The overlap between the two is a bit much for me but then it’s their lives, they can do whatever they want. He surely has enough money to make it interesting and worthwhile.

    • Ennie says:

      This reminds me a bit of the rumor about Tilda Swinton and her husband, their twins, and her lover.
      She has said that not all of them were together, she was separated, but that there was an arrangement.

  17. Miran says:

    If liz hurley couldnt land him, this chick isnt going to.

  18. Tiara says:

    I know everybody thinks because he has money this is an ok situation but it just doesn’t sit right with me. There’s no way he can be a daily hands on dad with all these kids with 2 different mothers. The mothers don’t decide when they want to drop in and stop by, like a family friend. They are with these children day in and day out. Money doesn’t solve all problems.

  19. Holmes says:

    My knee-jerk response was “wrap it up, man, for god’s sake”, but the more I think about it…meh. These people are adults, and it sounds like the children are well-loved. It’s not a situation I would choose, but if it works for the involved parties, who am I to judge?

  20. Caz says:

    I think Hugh’s character in About A Boy struck a chord with him. A meaningless existence now has more fulfilment…on his terms.

  21. Nouveau says:

    He’s VERY rich and getting to that stage where you start thinking about mortality. It’s so unfair that men get to delay reproduction until whenever they want. Having kids in your 50s is the best thing – as long as you’re a very healthy person who has a good chance of staying around to see them into their 20s at the least – because you’ve had your fun and don’t need to balance babies with career. Women don’t get that choice unless they plan to adopt.

    • Ethelreda says:

      Most men don’t get the choice either. Your average bloke in his 50s – ie not a multi-millionaire actor – is going to have a tough time finding a woman at least 15 years his junior willing to have his babies, much less be able to afford to enjoy a fatherhood at ‘one remove’ experience.

      Besides, what’s so great about having kids in your 50s? Is it really such fun to wake up for night feeds and run after toddlers when you are well into middle age? Of course, Hugh won’t be doing any of those things but like I say, that’s not the case for your average man who can’t afford to buy seperate luxury homes for his ‘families’ and only see them when he feels like it. Dealing with sullen teenagers in your 70s? I’ll pass, thanks.

      • Nouveau says:

        “when you are well into middle age”

        I firmly believe many are worn out by that so-called middle age precisely because they have kids in their mid-30s. I still believe you can be insanely healthful and energetic if you’re not working yourself and eating yourself into the status quo idea of being 60 or 70.

  22. Notthemafia says:

    I met with Hugh at a Sarah Silverman show in London a couple of years ago so probably while one or both of these women were pregnant or had recently given birth. Suffice to say he was VERY interested in my (happily married friend). I don’t think that he has a conventional relationship with anyone here. If it works for him- great. Wouldn’t work for me though. Also he looked OLD. Was v sad all round.

    • Nouveau says:

      I’m pretty sure he’s always had open relationships. Even with Liz Hurley. You can look up that very old interview where she was trying to pick up some guy journalist while still attached to Hugh.

      • Jayna says:

        And I remember that hasbeen actor Tom Sizemore spilling the beans that back when he was considered talented and still in the biz he and Liz hooked up while on a movie and when she was in California when Hugh was over in England.

        They probably had an agreement that when off on location for long periods away from each other it was don’t ask, don’t tell..

    • Jayna says:

      Yeah, I don’t think he’s settled down with Anna either. She accepts him as he is. They get along and he adores his son. So why not a sibling for him. She gets another baby she probably wants at her age, which I think is 37. I saw on her Instagram some offices she was renovating for her business. He’s probably footing the bill for that, too.

      As he got older, he seemed to be drinking a lot, in bars a lot. I think the children do make him happy. Someone on here on a thread about him with his three kids a year ago or more said her sister lives in his neighborhood and saw him out often at parks, etc., with his children and that he looked like an involved father. So maybe he found the perfect women for him, that don’t ask much of him, but he got beautiful children from the relationships that will balance out his life more, instead of just an aging bachelor, drinking all the time at bars, career winding down. The responsibility for other human beings beyond himself is probably good for him..

      He and Liz were such a beautiful couple back in the day.

      http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/multimedia/archive/00091/2912675_LizHurley_91015b.jpg

      • Nouveau says:

        It’s amazing how Liz launched her career with that safety pin dress and sustained it with pretty much the same look for decades: push up bra, glossy lips, tawny hair, perfect skin, etc. Stunning still today but kind of frozen in time.

      • SloaneY says:

        He reall seems like his Bridget Jones character.

      • LAK says:

        Going by Liz Hurley’s comments since she had her kid, Hugh is great with kids. The interviews he gave whilst he was dating Jemima Khan also had throw away comments that indicated he was great with kids and was involved with her kids as well as Liz’s kid.

        Therefore it doesn’t surprise me that he is great with kids.

  23. Citresse says:

    Better late than never?

  24. anna says:

    i truly feel for women who struggle because of age to have a child even in their late 30s and men like this can make multiple in their 50s. ugh

  25. Bread and Circuses says:

    I wonder whether he had the first child by accident, but then fell in love with his baby and suddenly wanted a bunch more?

    I mean, to go from zero and a confirmed bachelor to having four kids in four years flat seems like it was intentional, and not, for example, a copy of Jude Law and his serial oopsies.