Hugh Grant’s Awkward Oscars Interview With Ashley Graham Gets Backlash

Hugh Grant showed up at the Oscars, and you’d think he’d be prepared to give a few interviews due to being an actor walking a carpet at a major awards show, but… not so much. Hugh was visibly uninterested and some might say downright rude to Ashley Graham during ABC’s Oscars pre-show, and he’s being called out on Twitter as a result. Check it out for yourself below:

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As you can see, Ashley was trying her best to do her job with an interview, but Grant responded with dismissive one-word answers. A brief transcript if you can’t deal with the secondhand awkwardness of that clip:

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As one person put it: “Why was Hugh grant so rude?? Shout out to Ashley for holding up the conversation. / getting through that.” And as another said, “Ashley Graham deserves an honorary Oscar for putting up with Hugh Grant. Don’t walk the carpet if you don’t want to talk about THE ACTUAL OSCARS.”

 

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Not the most normal red carpet interview, right?

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Mehera Bonner is a celebrity and entertainment news writer who enjoys Bravo and Antiques Roadshow with equal enthusiasm, She was previously entertainment editor at Marie Claire and has covered pop culture for over a decade. 



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