please welcome back to "the late show," hugh grant. [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ there it is. e you. >> stephen: thank you. hello and welcome back. >> hugh: thank you, stephen. nice to be back. >> stephen: we spoke, we did one interview over covid. during that dark time. you haven't been physically here since 2018. we did run into each other this summer. do you remember me running into you? >> hugh: it has come back to me. i was very drunk. >> stephen: i was on my way. >> hugh: yeah, more than that. you were embarrassing. >> stephen: okay. that's what evie says, but go on. >> hugh: you weren't at all. i felt bad because you didn't recognize you because you were so preposterously out of context. >> stephen: we were at a restaurant in france. >> hugh: the deepest, most obscure corner of the south of france. >> a tiny restaurant and everyone was dining alfresco and my wife is sitting across from me and looks over my head as somebody walks into the dining room area and she goes, don't look now. but hugh grant just walked in. and i went... she goes, "and don't go over there." and i

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the ad loan has hosted hollywood royalty like hugh grant sarah jessica parker making folks steven spielberg, tom hanks and leonardo dicaprio, best buy if we are, the police used to be the same as good a gun. the i looked on fountain was in this bottle. it was a place where people would meet and relax is going to be here for house. while numerous celebrities have stayed at the ad lawn, not all of them check into the most luxury a suite which costs up 224000 euros per night. it's pure a luxury with a view of the front of the gate and its own private butler coming to the royal suite. i'm glad to have you here. ricardo is available 24 hours a day, both days and nights. enough to just keep this all my occasionally there's a cool night, but in the years i've worked here and i've only been working up 2 or 3 times this hosting stuff could make one request was to have 4 meals with honey. hi somebody me . tony was evian, i did that gladly and then went back to sleep. going to be there for the record. i won't say who made this request, but we know that the rock obama spent the night in the royal suite

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i'm grant lotus kron. 4 news, ken and pam, back to hugh grant. thank you. while many would think today's ruling would have the most >> effect on california, which is known for its liberal politics sense not necessarily the case. yeah, that's because back in 1996, california voters approved prop 209, which prevented california public universities from considering race as one of the factors for admission tonight, kron four's kerman has a look at the law's impact and what it means for california's private universities going forward. >> public universities in california have been banned from using race, ethnicity and gender as factors to be considered for admission. >> since voters approved prop 209, in 1996, o'clock tonight is at a very chilling >> on the ability of the eu seasons, the u.s. used to recruit under represented historically underrepresented minority students. >> kathleen lau is the diversity officer at cal state east bay. >> it was a 40% drop of black and latinx students across the uc system. that is significant. >> california's public universitie

ken pam, now back to hugh grant. thank you. >> leftist policies are to blame for san francisco's woes. well, so says republican presidential candidate ron desantis said a new twitter video as kron four's dan kerman tells us tonight the florida governor film that video and san francisco's tenderloin neighborhood while he was on a fundraising swing through northern california, republican presidential candidate in florida, governor ron desantis is the latest to jump on the so-called. >> san francisco failed city bandwagon filming a twitter video in the city's tenderloin neighborhood. >> the city is not vibrant anymore. it's really collapse because of leftist policies and these policies have caused people to flee this area. they don't prosecute criminals like they do in most parts of the country in the wreckage has really, really been to see. i think we need to focus on the work. we need to focus on the data. we need to focus on all the great things that we're trying to do to combat this problem because that's the hard p

ashley: >> and bridget jones diary, hugh grant takes on colin firth in the street kind of thing.n front of the water fountain. ashley: they would make so much money. lauren: everybody and their mother would watch this. then give that to charity. i say do it. ashley: thank you. now this. the house weaponization subcommittee says the administration colluded with big tech to censor americans during the 2020 elections and the 2022 midterms. will anyone be held accountable? we have that story. the top russian general reportedly had advance knowledge of the wagoner mercenary chief's rebellion. we hear the kremlin's former senior general may have conspired, we have details on that story. despite days of turmoil surrounding a thwarted uprising, putin remains committed to the war in ukraine. russian military strike hitting restaurants in ukraine. killing at least we 10 people including 14-year-old twin girls. the latest from kyiv next. bridgett is here. she has no clue that i'm here. she has no clue who's in the helmet. are you ready? -i'm ready! alright. xfinity rewards creates experienc

. >> on the july 10th of 1995, you have hugh grant as a guest, and this is just after he was arrestede moment. >> let me start with question number one. what the hell were you thinking? [ laughter ] >> as someone who asks questions for a living. >> yeah. >> how did you come up with that? it's just perfect? >> just off the top of my head. >> really? >> yeah. you know, he was great. nowadays you'd have a hundred handlers. i called him up and said are you still in for tomorrow? he said yeah. he said i effed up, it's my fault. i said i have to ask you a question, he said i get it. he was great. he showed up, didn't have a publicist, none of that nonsense, and he was honest about it. >> then in 2009, all planned, conan replaces you. nbc puts you on at five nights a week at 10:00 p.m. which turns out to be a terrible idea, and within eight months, conan is out, you're back on, and you're the villain again. >> to me it's like any athletic event. you have two teams or two boxers. you can still be friends and punch each other in the face. but you know, i let them just, everybody attacked me an

. >> on july 10th of 1995, you have hugh grant as a guest. >> right. >> this is just after he's beenp a sex worker. >> right, right. >> and this is the moment. >> right, right. >>> question number one. [ laughter ] what the hell were you thinking? [ laughter and applause ] >> as someone who asks questions for a living, how did you come up with that because it was just perfect. >> off the top of my head. >> really? >> he was great. nowadays you'd have 100 handlers. i called him up and i said, you still in for tomorrow? he said, yeah. he said, you know, i effed up and it's my fault. i said, okay, i got to ask -- i get it, okay. so -- you know, he was great. he showed up. didn't have a publicist now adas explaining i was on xanax. he was honest about it. >> then in 2009 conan o'brien replaces you doing "the tonight show" and nbc puts you on five nights a week at 10:00 p.m. which turns out to be a terrible idea. >> terrible idea. >> and within eight months, conan is out, you're back on "the tonight show" and you're the villain again. so what would you have us understand about that. >> to

and of course, this is all related to the wider press battles that hugh grant and others have been withe next couple of days.i everywhere. the next couple of days. i won't say g word days. i won't say the g word because it's because apparently it's offensive . kyiv. yeah right. the offensive. kyiv. yeah right. the prime minister is in washington today to seek a military style economic alliance with the us to counter the rise china. and counter the rise of china. and bizarrely , the risk of i. he bizarrely, the risk of i. he will also speak to congressional and business leaders about more support for ukraine. so joining us now is foreign minister and labour mp dennis mcshane. good morning first all, morning, dennis. first of all, could i just have any reaction from you about the news that this court case we're this court case that we're looking at london is looking at in london is significant? of course it is. but equally significant one, but an equally significant one, arguably america, arguably going on in america, which might harry's visa to which might see harry's visa to rescinded .

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