The Twitter-verse went slightly nuts yesterday with the news that Hugh Grant was gay. However like many Twitter facts, it wasn’t true. It spread due to confusion over a video Hugh has released as part of the @Out4Marriage campaign, expressing his support for equal marriage.
Many thought he’d announced he was gay due to a tweet from Stephen Fry, which read ”Hugh Grant has come out! He says love is the same straight or gay: hurrah for him @Out4Marriage! http://youtu.be/JdsoJKRYEYg“. As so often on Twitter, people looked at the 140 characters and not the actual content, leading to many tweeting about Hugh supposed homosexuality.
Unfortunately for those who got their hopes up, Hugh’s still not gay (at least not as far as we know), but he does support gay marriage, although as he himself notes, he’s not the biggest believer in marriage itself.
In the video he says, “Hello I’m Hugh Grant. I’m not a massive believer in marriage; I think my own biography is testament to that but I do think that love is the same for everyone. And I do think that everyone should have the same rights. If you want to get married, whether you’re gay, straight, transgender [or] whatever, you should definitely be allowed to do that.” You can watch Hugh’s video above.
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