11/05/2025
Hugh Grant has opened up about the fight against keeping his kids away from screens.
At a campaigning event, the actor blasted schools for allowing pupils screen time during the school day, and he called for laptops to be banned from classrooms.
“The final straw was when the school started saying, with some smugness, we give every child a Chromebook,” he reportedly said, “and they do a lot of lessons on their Chromebook, and they do all their homework on their Chromebook, and you just thought that is the last fu***ng thing they need, and the last thing we need.”
"I'm just another angry parent fighting the eternal, exhausting and depressive battle with children who only want to be on a screen," he continued.
"It's pathetic. It seems to me that there is space here for a hero school, a set of schools to break the mould."
Grant has three children with Anna Elisabet Eberstein, and he has a son and daughter from previous relationships.
