Hugh Grant werd deze week gehoord door de commissie Leveson, die in Engeland onderzoek doet naar het phone hacking schandaal. Dit is een fragment van zijn getuigenis. Grant verdedigt “the British instinct to be sceptical, irreverant, difficult and to take the piss; a free press is of course the cornerstone of democracy, there is no question about that. I just think there has been a section of our press that has been allowed to become toxic over the last 20 or 30 years.”