Grant accused of making false claims against paper

HUGH GRANT made false allegations that the Mail on Sunday hacked his phone on the basis of “thin” evidence, a lawyer for the paper’s publishers said.

Grant told the Leveson Inquiry in November that a “bizarre” article suggesting he had “late-night phone calls with a plummy-voiced studio executive” could only have come from listening to his voicemails.

“I cannot for the life of me think of any conceivable source for this story in the Mail on Sunday except those voice messages on my mobile telephone,” he said.