Grant: 'I bought £2m artwork when drunk'

Hugh Grant has revealed that he once bought a painting of Elizabeth Taylor when he was drunk.

The Notting Hill star, who turns 50 next year, said that he later made £11 million on the artwork.

Grant told the Daily Mail: "It all began with drink. I'd been having a drunken dinner with my father the night before, and I said, 'We ought to go see my brother Jamie. You know, the Concorde's amazing.'

"'And he said, 'I hear it is.' So I bought him a Concorde ticket and we went. We had lunch, drank a lot of beer.

"I was thinking about some stuff in the Sotheby's auction and I saw the Liz Taylor. I slightly regret selling it now, even though it made me rich."