Hugh Grant, Jemima split

One of Britain’s most glamorous couples, actor Hugh Grant and socialite Jemima Khan, have decided to go their separate ways, the US website People.com reported.

One of Britain’s most glamorous couples, actor Hugh Grant and socialite Jemima Khan, have decided to go their separate ways, the US website People.com reported. “Hugh and Jemima have decided to split amicably,” Grant’s publicist Robert Garlock said on the website yesterday.

News of their split comes after they were reportedly seen arguing at a party in the George Restaurant in Mayfair. Jemima was reportedly overheard joking about Grant’s “commitment phobia”. In response, he said she was behaving like a “dictator”.

The news also came the same day that Grant’s ex-girlfriend, British model and actress Elizabeth Hurley, and Indian businessman Arun Nayar told officials of their plan to wed. Grant’s long relationship with Hurley ended in 2000.

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For the last three years, Grant, 46, has been dating the 33-year-old Khan, the ex-wife of cricketer Imran Khan and daughter of the late Euroskeptic tycoon Sir James Goldsmith.

Grant, famous for playing fancy-free cads in films like Four Weddings and a Funeral or Bridget Jones, recently starred in Music and Lyrics, a romantic comedy about an over-the-hill rock star who eventually finds love in mid-life.