{"id":677957,"date":"2026-07-07T05:57:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T05:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/677957\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T05:57:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T05:57:23","slug":"hugh-grant-corrects-martin-brundle-during-awkward-f1-gridwalk-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/677957\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugh Grant Corrects Martin Brundle During Awkward F1 Gridwalk Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_png_20260706_1215d66b0ab8456ea8dc4def87f8d05e\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:87c463c2-484c-4149-a030-3c34fbb6459e\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1215d66b0ab8456ea8dc4def87f8d05e_md.png\" alt=\"main hugh grant martin brundle getty\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/hugh-grant\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hugh Grant<\/a> had to pump the brakes on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/martin-brundle\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Brundle<\/a> during his latest F1 gridwalk &#8230; after the longtime broadcaster tried to chat him up about a TV show he wasn&#8217;t even in.<\/p>\n<p>Waiting for your permission to load the Twitter Tweet.<\/p>\n<p>The hilariously awkward exchange went down before the British Grand Prix, when Brundle spotted Hugh, who came as a guest of Ferrari, and asked about his allegiance to the Italian racing team.<\/p>\n<p>Check it out &#8230; Hugh explained he&#8217;s a big Ferrari fan and said the team had invited him and two of his sons to the race.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_png_20260706_c5d0cc6dcd8c410aa68c0f81bab0f034\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:87c463c2-484c-4149-a030-3c34fbb6459e\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/c5d0cc6dcd8c410aa68c0f81bab0f034_md.png\" alt=\"sub hugh grant the gentleman alamy\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Things went sideways when Brundle asked Hugh if he was returning for another season of &#8220;The Gentlemen&#8221; &#8230; telling the actor he loved the show. Problem is &#8230; Hugh starred in the 2019 movie &#8220;The Gentlemen,&#8221; not the Netflix series of the same name.<\/p>\n<p>Brundle then abruptly wrapped the interview, saying he had about 10 seconds left before the national anthem &#8230; and just like that, he was off to find his next target.<\/p>\n<p>No hard feelings, though &#8230; Hugh kept his cool through the whole thing, while Brundle proved even a veteran interviewer can take a wrong turn on the grid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hugh Grant had to pump the brakes on Martin Brundle during his latest F1 gridwalk &#8230; after the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,50,101,1386,14472,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-677957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-tmz-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}