The British actor Hugh Grant and his wife were infected with the corona virus earlier this year, as he now announced.
British actor Hugh Grant (60, "The Gentlemen") contracted Corona at the beginning of the year. He said that on the "Late Show" by US presenter Stephen Colbert (56) on Tuesday evening (November 10th). Grant was hooked up from London and said that he and his wife had been infected with the coronavirus in February. That was the result of an antibody test that the 60-year-old did a month ago. Due to a symptom, the Briton had already suspected it.
Hugh Grant had these symptoms
The infection started with "a very strange syndrome". He had repeatedly experienced "terrible sweats". The 60-year-old compared it to "a poncho made of sweat", which he said was really embarrassing. Also, his eyeballs would have felt like they were three times the size they normally are. And he had the feeling as if a huge man was sitting on his chest and with a wink cited the fallen film mogul Harvey Weinstein (68) as an example.
At first, he did not think of Corona. But one decisive symptom then changed his mind: When one day he couldn't smell anything. He first tested his sense of smell on flowers, but when it didn't have the desired effect, he became more desperate and tried garbage cans. "I wanted to sniff strangers' armpits because I just couldn't smell anything," Grant joked. At home, he finally sprayed the perfume on his wife's face. He still couldn't smell anything, but it almost made him blind, he joked.
Hugh Grant spent the new lockdown in Great Britain in London with three of his children, including his two youngest daughters. In isolation, everything revolves around Barbies for him. He even continued to play with the dolls after his daughters were in bed. He may have overdone it, joked the Briton. He photographed the Barbies kissing and sent the photos to his friends. "That happens in a really long lockdown."