{"id":678466,"date":"2026-07-07T12:23:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T12:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/678466\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T12:23:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T12:23:15","slug":"hugh-grant-forced-to-correct-martin-brundle-during-awkward-f1-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/678466\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugh Grant forced to correct Martin Brundle during awkward F1 interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hugh Grant<\/a> was forced to correct Martin Brundle<\/a> live on TV after the Formula 1 presenter praised him for a TV series he was never in.<\/p>\n

Sunday (5 July) saw the British Grand Prix take place at Silverstone<\/a>, with a wave of British stars among the 600,000 attendees at the Northamptonshire circuit.<\/p>\n

Ahead of the race, presenter and former driver Brundle, 67, interviewed the biggest names in attendance on his legendary Sky Sports grid walk, where he stopped to speak to celebrities including Lewis Capaldi, Phil Foden and Hannah Waddingham.<\/p>\n

Brundle\u2019s last interview was with Grant, 65, who shook Brundle\u2019s hand and explained that he was there with his sons, John, 13, and Felix, 11, as a guest of Ferrari. \u201cI\u2019m a big Ferrari fan,\u201d Grant said.<\/p>\n

\"BrundleBrundle interviewed Grant during his Silverstone grid walk (Sky Sports\/YouTube)<\/p>\n

Brundle then used his time with Grant to ask him about the highly anticipated second season of Guy Ritchie\u2019s Netflix crime series The Gentlemen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cAre you doing another round of The Gentlemen soon, because I really loved that,\u201d he asked Grant, repeating himself when the Notting Hill star didn\u2019t hear him the first time around.<\/p>\n

However, this forced Grant to point out Brundle\u2019s mistake \u2013 that he wasn\u2019t actually in Netflix<\/a>\u2019s series The Gentlemen, but Ritchie\u2019s original film of the same name, released in 2019.<\/p>\n

\"HughHugh Grant at Silverstone (PA)<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, I did the film of The Gentlemen. I haven\u2019t seen the TV series,\u201d he replied, to which Brundle awkwardly riffed: \u201cOh, right. It\u2019s really good, you really must.\u201d<\/p>\n

Released in 2019, The Gentlemen movie centred upon a wealthy American drug dealer (played by Matthew McConaughey) looking to sell his marijuana business in the UK. Charlie Hunnam, Henry Golding and Michelle Dockery were amongst the film\u2019s British cast.<\/p>\n

The film then spawned a spin-off series for Netflix starring Theo James and Kaya Scodelario, which was released in 2024.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe TV cast of \u2018The Gentlemen\u2019 (Getty)<\/p>\n

But while Netflix announced that filming had begun on season two in August 2024, it only wrapped in October 2025, with James confirming in April that the show would be hitting the streamer this autumn.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s still tweaks to be done, but it will be in the fall, coming out. And it\u2019s fun. It\u2019s still funny, but it\u2019s darker. Goes a little wild,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

In addition to James and Scodelario, cast members Daniel Ings, Ray Winstone, Joely Richardson, Vinnie Jones, Giancarlo Esposito, Michael Vu and Pearce Quigley will all be returning.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ll also be joined by Hugh Bonneville and, somewhat unexpectedly, Love Island presenter Maya Jama<\/a> in one of her first acting roles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11671,226638,96,1687,7318,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-678466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-11671","tag-british-grand-prix-2026-practice-and-qualifying-silverstone-circuit-pa2026","tag-entertainment","tag-f1","tag-formula-one","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678466","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=678466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}