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Hugh Grant is campaigning to introduce more outdoor play to schools- and he slammed one major problem (Picture: Carlos Alvarez/Getty Images) Hugh Grant did not hold back when discussing the rules over screens at his children's 'ridiculous posh private schools.' The Bridget Jones actor shares three children with his wife Anna Eberstein: John Mungo, 12, Lulu, nine, and Blue, seven. He also welcomed Tabitha, 13, and Felix, 11, from his previous relationship with Tinglan Hong.
The Heretic star is currently campaigning for schools to introduce more outdoor play at school, drawing on his experience with his children in education. Hugh described himself as 'another angry parent fighting the eternal, exhausting and depressive battle with children who only want to be on a screen' during an event at Knightsbridge School in London this week. The Notting Hill actor slammed the 'pathetic' rules these 'kind of ridiculous posh private schools' have when it comes to screen time.
Hugh shares three children with his wife Anna Eberstein, as well as two with his ex-partner Tinglan Hong (Picture: Jeff Spicer/Getty Images) The Bridget Jones star lambasted schools for giving children Chromebooks (Picture: Samir Hussein/WireImage) 'They're the ones saying they're not going to play outside today because it's raining, or they can't go on the climbing frame because it's windy,' he began according to The Telegraph. 'It's pathetic — it seems to me that there is space here for a hero school, a set of schools to break the mould.' 'The final straw was when the school started saying, with some smugness, "We give every child a Chromebook, and they do a lot of lessons on their Chromebook, and they do all.
.. Rebecca Sayce.
