Leveson Inquiry: Hugh Grant Lays Into The Mail On Sunday

Описание: Leveson Inquiry: Hugh Grant Lays Into The Mail On Sunday [21.11.2011]

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Actor Hugh Grant has said he suspects his voicemail messages were hacked by The Mail on Sunday.

He told the Leveson Inquiry into media standards there was "no conceivable" way a story the newspaper published in 2007 about a Warner Brothers employee could have been written without his messages being listened to.

Grant sued the newspaper for libel over the story and won.

It is the first time the actor has implicated a newspaper not owned by Rupert Murdoch.

When pressed, Grant admitted he did not have solid proof of any wrongdoing by The Mail on Sunday, but added: "I would love to hear what the explanation of that is, if it wasn't phone hacking."

A spokesman for The Mail on Sunday said: "Mail on Sunday utterly refutes Hugh Grant's claim that they got any story as a result of phone hacking.

"In fact in the case of the story Mr Grant refers to the information came from a freelance journalist who had been told by a source who was regularly speaking to Jemima Khan.

"Mr Grant's allegations are mendacious smears driven by his hatred of the media."

The statement prompted a response from Ms Khan on Twitter denying she had any part in the story.

"MoS say a freeland journo heard story about "plummy voiced woman" from a source close to me. That's not true as the first time I heard anything about this was when I read about it in the MoS," she wrote.

The 51-year-old actor's comments come as part of his evidence about invasions into his privacy at the hands of tabloid journalists.

Monday 21st November 2011