The actor detailed his kids’ alleged interaction with an immigration officer at London’s Heathrow Airport in a post on X
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Hugh Grant was left unimpressed by his latest airport experience.
On Friday, April 4, the actor, 64, called out an immigration officer at London’s Heathrow Airport for allegedly acting “intrusive, insulting and creepy” during an encounter with his children.
Writing in a post on X, Grant claimed that immigration officers at the London airport asked his kids if he and his wife Anna Eberstein were their parents.
“Just came through Heathrow with wife and children,” Grant’s post read. “We all have the same last name (Grant) on our passports. Immigration officer engages my children in chit chat then whispers to them ‘Are these your Mum and Dad?’ . Intrusive, insulting and creepy.”
While Grant shares daughter Tabitha Xiao, 13, son Felix Chang, 11, with actress Tinglan Hong, he is also dad to son John Mungo, 12, and daughters Lulu Danger, 9, and Blue, 6, with Eberstein, 46.
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A spokesperson for Heathrow Airport confirmed to PEOPLE that Border Force officers are employed by the Home Office and not the airport.
PEOPLE has contacted the Home Office for comment.
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“If you are travelling with a child (under 18) and are not the child’s parent, or may appear not to be the parent (for example, if you have a different family name), we may ask you a few questions to establish your relationship with the child,” a Border Force article on the U.K. government’s website reads. “We will always do this as quickly as possible and in a way which is sensitive to the interests of the child and the adult involved.”
In November, Grant opened up about having children later in life.
“I had them much too old in life you know, I started when I was 52,” he said on the Smartless podcast. “Now I’m 64, you know, and the youngest is 6, and I need a long stint in a sanatorium or an abbey.”
He also got emotional when speaking about his kids on The Kelly Clarkson Show earlier that month.
“I mean there’s a lot to dread because I’m old and it’s noisy and it’s unbearable and I do a bit of hiding in the loo,” he joked.
