Editing Hugh Grant (section)

=== Sport ===
[[File:Hugh Grant Dunhill 2007 crop.jpg|thumb|upright|Grant during the [[Alfred Dunhill Links Championship]], October 2007]]
As a young boy, he played [[rugby union]] on his school's first XV team at centre and also played [[association football|football]]. He is a fan of [[Fulham F.C.|Fulham]]. He continued to play in a Sunday-morning football league in south-west London after college and remains an "impassioned Fulham supporter".<ref name="sports profile">{{cite news|first=Robert|last=Philip|title=Fulham and golf top bill in Grant's off-screen life|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/2398868/Fulham-and-golf-top-bill-in-Grant%27s-off-screen-life.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081206194311/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/2398868/Fulham-and-golf-top-bill-in-Grant%27s-off-screen-life.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=6 December 2008|work=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]|date=30 March 2003|access-date=14 September 2007}}</ref> He is also a supporter of Italian club [[Como 1907|Como]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ferrini |first=David |title=Andrew Garfield And Hugh Grant Become The Latest Serie A-Listers |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidferrini/2024/10/22/andrew-garfield-and-hugh-grant-become-the-latest-serie-a-listers/ |access-date=2024-12-07 |website=Forbes |language=en}}</ref> His other interests include tennis<ref>{{cite news|title=Up Close and Personal|pages=A10–12|work=Variety|date=16 December 2002}}</ref> and snooker.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.bornrich.com/hugh-grant.html|title=Hugh Grant biography, net worth, quotes, wiki, assets, cars, homes and more|work=Born Rich|access-date=13 October 2013|archive-date=3 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131003174244/http://www.bornrich.com/hugh-grant.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 2011, the [[BBC]] apologised after Grant made an offhand joke about [[homosexuality]] and rugby when he was invited into the commentary box during coverage of an [[England national rugby union team|England]] v [[Scotland national rugby union team|Scotland]] game at [[Twickenham Stadium]]. Talking about playing rugby during his school days, Grant said: "I discovered it hurt less if you tackled hard than if you tackled like a queen".<ref>{{cite web|title=BBC apologises for Hugh Grant's gay rugby comment|url=http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2011/03/14/bbc-apologises-for-hugh-grants-gay-rugby-comment/|work=Pink News|date=14 March 2011|access-date=14 March 2011}}</ref>