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Speaker 1: And Amanda jam Nas.

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Speaker 2: We've spoken to Hugh Grant a few times in our career.

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Speaker 2: He's a very he.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't tolerate fools, which is where we feel.

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Speaker 2: To turn individual.

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Speaker 1: He's a bit prickly, isn't he. But through the years

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Speaker 1: I've come to admire that he hasn't changed for anybody.

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Speaker 1: I've come to admire the Hugh Grant nature of him. Really.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And he's been in battle with Murdoch Press for

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Speaker 2: many years now, after a defamation case that's gone on

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Speaker 2: for a long long time.

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Speaker 1: He says that they have hacked his home, his car,

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Speaker 1: his office. They were getting a whole lot of information

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Speaker 1: and he wondered, how are they doing this? And he

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Speaker 1: thinks it's because he's been hacked. And not only that,

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Speaker 1: he and Prince Harry and a number of others are

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Speaker 1: in a deformation case against Murdoch, claiming I think the

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Speaker 1: words blagging that they have through nefarious means gleaned medical

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Speaker 1: information about them and printed it. So it's been horrendous stuff.

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Speaker 2: And also, in a nice bit of self awareness that

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Speaker 2: a lot of celebrities don't have, Hugh admitted back in

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Speaker 2: the old days when the Vine Brown encounter happened why

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Speaker 2: he was.

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Speaker 3: Newsworthy the Tymelroy started writing about me in when I

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Speaker 3: suddenly had some success, which was in nineteen ninety four,

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Speaker 3: after four weddings and a funeral in the wake of

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Speaker 3: my Divine Brown escapade.

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Speaker 4: I kind of knew the bit storm, so in a

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Speaker 4: way I think I thought, well, this is all part

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Speaker 4: of my punishment. But wherever you went, bang out came

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Speaker 4: a pap and he thought, how do they know where

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Speaker 4: I am?

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Speaker 2: So that's a different kettle.

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Speaker 1: Of fish, that's right. And he has fought for twelve

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Speaker 1: years and he's been very vocal about this and it's

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Speaker 1: not easy to take on the Murdoch Press. He finally

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Speaker 1: settled yesterday. He didn't want to, but he said that

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Speaker 1: even if he won, he would have to pay the

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Speaker 1: legal fees of both sides, so that would is going

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Speaker 1: to come to ten ten million pounds and he figured

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Speaker 1: I had to pull out at that. I'll read you

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Speaker 1: what he wrote. He wrote this thread yesterday on Twitter.

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Speaker 1: For anyone who's been interested in my lawsuit against the Sun,

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Speaker 1: the news is that I've had to settle my claim

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Speaker 1: out of court before it gets to a trial. Newsgroup

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Speaker 1: are claiming they are entirely innocent of the things I

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Speaker 1: had accused the son of doing phone hacking, unlawful information gathering,

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Speaker 1: landline tapping, the burglary of my flat and office, the

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Speaker 1: bugging of my car, the illegal blagging of medical records, lies, perjury,

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Speaker 1: and the destruction of evidence. Rupert Murdock is spent over

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Speaker 1: one billion pounds in damages to claimants and in lawyer's fees,

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Speaker 1: settling over fifteen hundred claims. In this way, he seems

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Speaker 1: remarkably determined that there shouldn't be a trial of the facts.

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Speaker 1: Murdock settlement money has a stink, and are refused to

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Speaker 1: let this be hush money. I've spent the best part

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Speaker 1: of twelve years fighting for a free press that does

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Speaker 1: not distort the truth, does not abuse ordinary members of

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Speaker 1: the public or hold elected MPs to ransom in pursuit

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Speaker 1: of newspaper baron's personal profit and political power. So this

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Speaker 1: money will be repurposed via groups like hacked Off, into

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Speaker 1: the general campaign to expose the worst excesses of our

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Speaker 1: oligarch owned press, as is common with entirely innocent people.

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Speaker 1: They are offering me in an enormous sum of money

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Speaker 1: to keep this matter out of court. I don't want

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Speaker 1: to accept this money or settle. I'd love to see

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Speaker 1: the allegations that they deny tested in court. But the

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Speaker 1: rules around civil litigation mean that if I proceed to

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Speaker 1: trial and the court awards me damages that are even

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Speaker 1: a penny lesson the settlement offer, I'd have to pay

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Speaker 1: the legal costs of both sides. My lawyers tell me

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Speaker 1: that's exactly what would most likely happen here. Ribert Murdock's

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Speaker 1: lawyers are very expensive, so even if every allegation is

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Speaker 1: proven in court, I would still be liable for something

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Speaker 1: approaching ten million pounds in costs. I'm afraid I'm shying

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Speaker 1: at that fence. And then he goes on to thank

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Speaker 1: his legal team, the whistleblowers who have helped him, and

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Speaker 1: the innocent, and there's everyday people who've supported him. I

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Speaker 1: have utmost respect for him. So here he is saying,

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Speaker 1: I'm settling, but this won't be hush money. I still

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Speaker 1: believe these accusations, and I'm going to use this money

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Speaker 1: to help fund groups that are looking further into it.

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Speaker 2: I guess look for a more reliable new source like X,

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Speaker 2: like X that's right, or social media,