Hugh Grant’s new wife Anna Eberstein was “kidnapped” on their honeymoon by a taxi driver, the Hollywood star has revealed.
The actor got into a row with the cabbie in Paris when the vehicle’s credit-card machine didn’t work at the end of their journey and Hugh had no cash to pay him.
Recalling the incident, the star told US talk show host Seth Meyers: “There was this terrible fight.
“He took to me an ATM and then the ATM didn’t work and I panicked and said to my new wife, ‘Right, get out the car’. It was only six euros or something.
“And the taxi driver said, ‘What are you doing?’ I said, ‘Well, your machine doesn’t work so we’re not paying.
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“At which point he kidnapped her! Just drove off with my wife!”
“It was a real downer on the honeymoon,” he joked.
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Hugh said Anna, a Swedish TV producer with whom he has three children, remained “resentful to this day” that he failed to chase after the car.
“I said, it was going at 50mph! What’s the point?!” he told Seth.
“But it wasn’t a good look that I sort of sauntered after the car.
“I always have a fight with a taxi driver in Paris. They’re not very nice, if truth be told. But this one was bad.”
The 57-year-old said the cabbie had told him the card machine was working before they had reached their destination.
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Hugh and Anna tied the knot at a quiet ceremony in London last month.
The actor recently starred in BBC1 drama A Very British Scandal as MP Jeremy Thorpe, who was tried and acquitted of conspiring to murder his former lover, Norman Scott, in the 1970s.
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