Drew Barrymore Defends ‘Grumpy’ Hugh Grant After Oscars Red Carpet Backlash (Video)
thewrap.commaking things awkward during a red carpet interview with ABC’s pre-show host Ashley Graham.In the now-viral video, things went south when the model-actress missed his joke about the novel “Vanity Fair,” attributing the reference to the magazine of the same name’s famous Oscars after-party.
He refused to appease her follow-up questions with more than a few words, answering that he was rooting for “no one in particular” and was wearing “just my suit.” Though the internet accused him of being “shady,” his friend Barrymore wrote it off as a classic Grant moment.“There’s this thing going around with him and Ashley Graham on the red carpet.
People are like, ‘Oh, he’s such a curmudgeon, and she’s so thrown’ – I’m like, ‘No, that is Hugh Grant,'” she said on Friday’s episode of her talk show “The Drew Barrymore Show.”“You think you’re getting this charming movie star, and what you really get is grumpy Hugh.
And then you fall in love with grumpy Hugh,” she continued. “When he says that, I’m telling you, he is being absolutely funny, he doesn’t mean one negative thing about it.
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