At 64, Hugh Grant admits he became a father 'much too old' in life

If becoming a father gave him a “heart”, Hugh Grant nevertheless regrets today having had his children late. In 2011, when he was 52 years old, he became a father for the very first time. Now 64, he now has five children, from two different relationships.

The actor with multiple conquests today shares three of his children, his daughters Blue (6 years old) and Lulu (8 years old) as well as his son John Mungo (12 years old), with his wife, Anna Eberstein, of more than twenty years his junior. But he also has two older children, Tabitha (13 years old) and Felix (11 years old) with his ex-partner, Tinglan Hong.

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The actor made some rare confidences about his little troupe and his role as a late-born dad, “Well, we think it’s five,” he admitted in a joking tone, when the host of the podcast SmartLess asked him how many children he had. “But I got them way too old in life. You know, I started when I was 52,” he added.

“I hide in the toilet”

And being a late father is obviously not easy on a daily basis for the actor of Love Actually. “I often look at the abbey where Maria lives in The Sound of Music and I would like to live there. I need a long stay in a sanatorium or an abbey,” he joked. “I’m old, it’s noisy and it’s unbearable. I hide in the toilets a lot. I sleep in there a lot now.”

Despite the jokes, he mainly admits that this role changed him for the better, making him go from the inveterate heartthrob of Hollywood to a good father of a large family. “I think I was a dried-up, middle-aged Englishman who was addicted to golf,” he said on the podcast. Then I had kids, and suddenly I had a heart, and I had more diapers, or something like that.”