Move over Ryan Lochte – Hugh Grant wants to put on hisdancing shoes on Dancing with the Stars. During an interview with W magazine,the British actor admitted that he is a fan of the competition show.
“Secretly, deep down, I’d love todo that show—it’s superb,” he said. “But—damn it—I consider myself too classy.”
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The rigorous rehearsals on the ABC show would be a breezegiven his previous dance training. Hugh revealed that he took dancelessons in preparation for his andMeryl Streep’s film Florence Foster Jenkins. Learning the “Lindy Hop” he said, “Took four hard months, with ladies inleotards in a sweaty dance studio in London.”
He added, “They had to train melike a performing seal.”
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The 56-year-old, who portrays St. Clair Bayfield in the drama, admitted that he was initially hesitant about takingon the role. “In the last five years, I have been doing less in terms of showbusiness and more in terms of politics and having children,” Hugh said.
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The Notting Hill star welcomed his second child — a girl — last December with his on-off Swedish girlfriend, Anna Eberstein, whom he shares son John Mungowith. The actor is also a father to daughter Tabitha Jīng Xǐ, four, and son Felix, three, with his exTinglan Hong.
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Hugh is notoriously guarded when it comes to his personal life, but previously confessed that fatherhood softened him. "It's made me much nicer," he told Us Weekly in February 2015. "One of my kids is very obsessed with saying goodbye – he's only two – to everyone, including the man who delivers the groceries, whoever he might be. He has to have a hug and a kiss, and I find that very charming."
