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Topics: Celebrity, Hugh Grant, Jimmy Kimmel, Parenting
Britt Jones
Topics: Celebrity, Hugh Grant, Jimmy Kimmel, Parenting
Hugh Grant, who is notoriously private when it comes to talking about his children, has finally shared the names of his two youngest daughters.
The 64-year-old opened up when it came to their given names when he appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Tuesday, 29 October.
It all began while discussing his own strange middle name, which he then went on to bestow on to one of his sons.
Kimmel asked the actor: “I must ask you about your middle name, because this is a little detail and I don’t know how it slipped past me the last time. But, Mungo is one of your middle names, yes?”
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“Yes,” the actor admitted, and shared that his full name is Hugh John Mungo Grant.
He then joked that he had ‘very unkind parents’ and decided to give his own kids even ‘worse’ names because of it.
The Love Actually actor has five children in total.
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He has daughter Tabitha Xiao Xi, 13, and son Felix Chang Hong, 11, who he shares with ex Tinglan Hong.
He also has son John Mungo, 12, with his current wife Anna Eberstein.
Eberstein and the actor also went on to have an 8-year-old and a 5-year-old daughter, and they’ve been very private about their names.
During his time on the talk show, Grant explained: “I have a daughter who I named…I was in a bit of a panic with my wife on the day we named her and we thought it might be nice for her when she was older if she could say in bars that her middle name was Danger.”
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“So her name is Lulu Danger Grant,” he said of the 8-year-old.
His youngest, however, was named by his son.
He admitted: “[She was] named Blue because, again, I panicked about names with my wife so we asked her elder brother when she was on the way.
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“We said, ‘There’s a new baby coming along, what should we call her?’ And he said, ‘Kevin,’ because that was his favourite Minion.
“And we did think about calling her Kevin but then we said, ‘You better think of something else.’ So he said Blue, because it was his favourite colour.”
The Notting Hill actor has always been private about his life at home, but a few years ago, he uncharacteristically spoke about being a father and what it meant for him in terms of personal growth.
Speaking to the LA Times in 2020, he said that having children has made him emotional.
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He shared: “When you say how have I changed as an actor, I strongly suspect that having these children has really helped.
He added: “Because suddenly, instead of being a half-atrophied, middle-aged golfer, I’m a man with a life full of love.”
Grant continued, “I love my wife, I love my children. They love me. And, suddenly — very unusual for an Englishman — I have all this access to emotion. Almost too much access. Sometimes it’s hard to keep it down.”