He's playing a disgraced politician in his latest role.But Hugh Grant can't help but attract controversy in real life too as he was forced to apologise for swearing twice during Chris Evans' Radio 2 Breakfast Show on Friday morning.The acting legend, 57, said sorry to 'mums on the school run' after his epic double blunder during an interview to discuss his role as Jeremy Thorpe in a new BBC biopic.Chris mentioned during the chat that Hugh shared a similar view of acting with fellow star Anthony Hopkins, to which Hugh interjected: 'Oh he always says that, he says it's b*****ks doesn't he?' A horrified Chris told him 'Oh you can't say that!' only for Hugh to exclaim 'Oh s**t' leading the host to demand Hugh apologise to 'mums on the school run.'Hugh, who made his name in hits such as Four Weddings and Funeral, Notting Hill and the Bridget Jones movies, says he steers clear of such roles, choosing instead to focus on meatier dramatic parts like that of Thorpe..At 57, he says he is too 'old and ugly' for romantic comedies and insists 'the bird has flown'.Instead, he is moving in a different direction – such as playing the disgraced former Liberal leader, in A Very English Scandal.'I've always tried to take whatever was the most entertaining thing in front of me at the time,' he told the Radio Times.'And getting older and uglier has made the parts, you know, more varied. There used to be quite a big snobbery about'Oh, I'm a film star now, I don't do television'. But that is eroding very fast. I saw De Niro is now doing television.'Grant, a father of five, says he had to lose weight to portray Thorpe's hollow-cheeked appearance in the drama, which will start on BBC1 on Sunday.'I just got thinner. He was cadaverous, Thorpe, so I bought a bicycle and went racing round Richmond Park for four months and lost quite a lot of weight.'He said playing the old Etonian, who stood trial in 1979 for conspiracy to murder his gay ex-lover Norman Scott, also required a 'genius' make-up artist.'He knew exactly what to do,' he said. 'Clever stuff like making my cheekbones even more hollow, the contact lenses and the hair.' A Very English Scandal debuts at 9pm on BBC1 on Sunday May 20.
