He shares two daughters and a son with his current partner.

“I had them much too old in life I started when I was 52,” Grant said.

At the same time, however, he credited his kids for making him a much deeper human being.

Hugh Grant smiling

“I think I was a dried-up, middle-aged, golf-addicted Englishman.

“Ten years ago, I wouldn’t have thought about having children at all.

“But that’s on the basis that I can leave after 10 minutes.

Hugh Grant smirking

I don’t know what it would be like 24 hours a day.

I think I’d have a lot of nannies.”

“I like my daughter very much.

Has she changed my life?

I’m not sure.

Not massively, no.

But I’m absolutely thrilled to have had her, I really am.

And I feel a better person,” he said.