Hugh Grant goes scorched-earth on teachers who give kids tablets: ‘The last f**king thing they need’

Movie star and father of five Hugh Grant says he’s fed up with seeing his children glued to screens — and insists he’s speaking not as a celebrity activist but as “just another angry parent.”

Grant has campaigned on digital privacy issues since accusing journalists at the now-defunct News of the World of hacking his phone in 2011, later securing settlements with publishers, including Mirror Group Newspapers and News Group Newspapers (the Sun), most recently in 2024.

‘And you think, “What is this? What happened with you and Google Classroom or whatever it might be?”‘

But a recently resurfaced clip shows the “Bridget Jones” star venting about something far more familiar to parents: schools pushing screens, Chromebooks, and app-based learning on children who already spend much of their