Grant: 'Young girls keep me youthful'

Hugh Grant has revealed that he works out surrounded by "attractive young girls".

The 49-year-old, who has been single since splitting from heiress Jemima Khan in 2007, said that pilates classes with the women help keep him feeling youthful.

Grant told Hello magazine: "I've actually started to do Pilates to try and keep me young. I go to a place in London where there are all these attractive young girls and just the one sad, hungover old man, who is me.

"I don't know if it's working. I saw a picture of myself in a newspaper the other day and the caption said I looked every one of my 49 years and 'very tired and portly'. Portly! I was crushed.

"50 is not a very good number, it is? I think we all have a bit of age terror in us. To be honest, I don't really feel all that old in myself - I actually feel rather young and sprightly - but then I see a picture of myself and think, 'Christ, who is that old man?'"