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'Hugh Grant hacks Rupert Murdoch's mobile' in Miami Herald spoof

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By The Drum Team, Editorial

July 28, 2011 | 2 min read

Maybe this is one way of relieving the media gloom, but it does seem unfair as Rupert Murdoch clearly had no idea what was going on at the News of the World - and the humour is nothing if not heavy-handed

This "message" from actor Hugh Grant, no friend of the tabloid press, that gives you a hint of what's to come:

BEEP: Mr. Murdoch, this is Hugh Grant. Yes, Hugh Grant the actor. Remember how your dirtbag reporters kept hacking my phones a few years ago while I was dating that super-hot socialite whose name now escapes me? Well, you shriveled old goat, guess what. Now I’ve got your voicemail code and I’m eavesdropping on all your personal messages. Ha!”

Then follows a series of calls from David Cameron. Mr Murdoch's urologist (!) and Jude Law saying he's getting Mr M's Cialis pills,"which I intend to leave at the news desk of the Sunday Mirror."

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