Hugh Grant has denied claims that he married his wife Anna Elisabet Eberstein for “passport reasons.”
The British actor and the Swedish TV producer married in 2018, having already had three children together.
In a tweet shared on Thursday (17 June), the Notting Hill star shared a link to the Google results for the term “Hugh Grant’s wife,” with the top link claiming that “Hugh Grant married Anna Eberstein for passport reasons.”
“No, I didn’t, I married her because I love her,” Grant wrote.
During an appearance on The Late Show with James Corden, Grant admitted that while he’s “grateful” for the rom-com roles, it’s a “relief not to have” to star in those kinds of films anymore.
“I gave that my best shot, and some of those films I did, I love them, and I love them for being popular. I’m grateful for them… but it has been a relief now that I’m allowed to be twisted, ugly, weird, distorted.”
Who Is Anna Eberstein?
Anna Eberstein, 41, hails from Sweden and is co-founder of Ace Slippers, a London-based Scandinavian sock company.
She founded the company with her cousin in 2014 “to bring a more edgy style to the traditional Swedish slipper sock,” according to the Ace Slippers website.
Before launching her own business, Eberstein earned her master’s degree in economics from Sweden’s Uppsala University.
She went on to work as a promotions producer for marketing and sales at ESPN.
She masterminded corporate marketing campaigns as a freelance creative producer and director, according to information gathered from a now-defunct LinkedIn page by People.
How Long Have Grant and Eberstein Been Together?
Though the notoriously private Grant has kept most of the details of his relationship with Eberstein under wraps, their history dates back to at least the beginning of 2012 when Eberstein gave birth to their first child together (and Grant’s second), a son named John.
Just a few months later, in Dec. 2012, Grant welcomed another son, Felix, with Tinglan Hong, who is also the mother of Grant’s first child, a daughter named Tabitha, born in Sept.2011.
News of Grant and Eberstein relationship didn’t break until early 2014 when several news outlets discovered that Grant had been added to Eberstein’s son’s birth certificate sometime in 2013.
By that time, however, the pair had separated, though Grant told a Swedish newspaper in Sept. 2014 that Eberstein and their child lived near him in London. “We are excellent friends, and she’s a perfect mother,” he said of Eberstein at the time.
Grant and Eberstein rekindled their romance shortly after, though, since they welcomed their second child together, a daughter, in Dec. 2015, and have been together ever since.
They held their third child together with Grant’s fifth, for those keeping track at home in early 2018, just a few months before tying the knot in a low-key civil ceremony on May 25, 2018.
In an unexpected twist, the birth of the couple’s third child was announced by Elizabeth Hurley, who dated Grant for over a decade in the late ’80s and ’90s; she accidentally let the news slip on a March 2018 episode of Watch What Happens Live.
Their Views About Marriage?
Though the actor has been part of many high-profile romances throughout his decades in the spotlight, it wasn’t until 2018, when he was 57 years old, that the “eternal bachelor” finally made marriage moves.
He began hinting that he was looking to end his long-term bachelordom not long after getting back with Eberstein: In 2016, he discussed his reformed views of marriage with Howard Stern, saying, “I can see the lovely aspect if you marry exactly the right person, your best friend, and it’s cozy, and it’s lovely,” though he went on to add, “I think there’s something unromantic about marriage You’re closing yourself off.”
It wasn’t long before he popped the question to Eberstein. In a 2019 interview, he admitted that his previously long-held beliefs that he didn’t want a wife or children were “just plain wrong” and that he had “put it off too many decades,” per Hello! Magazine.
It’s clear Grant and Eberstein have a playful relationship. In an interview with Seth Meyers in November 2020, Grant teased that his wife doesn’t like any of the rom-com he’s most famous for, from Notting Hill or Love. “My wife is the man in our house.
She likes violent films, gangster films while I’m sitting there watching Roman Holiday or The Sound of Music or something,” he said per E.T. “So she’s never liked those films I did in the past, which are all romance and stuff. But now she’s starting to get a taste for my work.”
He added that while his wife did enjoy The Undoing, she preferred other actors in the series over him. “She’s in love with the murdered lady’s husband, played by Ismael Cruz Cordova, and she’s very in love with the cop, Edgar Ramírez’s part,” Grant said coyly.
Anna Eberstein Is About 20 Years Younger Than Her Partner
Hugh Grant was born on September 9th, 1960, which makes his wife over 20 years his junior.
It’s unclear where the pair met for the first time since they’ve managed to keep most of their personal life hidden.
They met at a party in London, where Eberstein presented the About a Boy star, a movie concept, according to Mirror.
Anna Elisabet Eberstein is a lady with a good education.
She studied English literature and political science at Oxford Brookes University in the late 1990s.
Her academic career then proceeded at Uppsala University, where she earned a master’s degree in economics.
But that isn’t all! She also attended Lincoln Memorial University’s Business School in Tennessee from 2001 to 2002.
Hugh Grant, on the other hand, studied English literature at Oxford.
While many celebrities get honorary doctorates later in life, Grant has chosen against pursuing a Ph.D.
Anna Eberstein Is Ace & Me’s Founder
Anna Elisabet Eberstein used her business degree to help her relative start a firm.
Ace & Me is their passion endeavor, and they sell Swedish eco-friendly slipper socks for newborns and toddlers under the brand Ace & Me.
Anna Eberstein Is A Tennis Player
Unlike most celebrities who swear by pilates, yoga, or strength training, Anna Elisabet Eberstein enjoys tennis.
She may not be one of the finest players in the world, but she is undoubtedly one of the best at her tennis club in London, Queen’s Club.
Anna Elisabet Eberstein And Grant Married In 2018.
Even though the Notting Hill actor claimed to have lived a bachelor life for most of his life, he decided to propose to Anna Elisabet. In 2018, the couple married in a private ceremony away from the press.
Anna opted for a laid-back wedding. She was dressed in a white mini-skirt and a blouse. At the time, Hugh Grant was 57 years old.
