A spokesman for The Daily Mail said: “The Daily Mail unequivocally denies Hugh Grant’s allegation that it secured information about the birth of his child from a source at the hospital.
In fact the information came from a source in his showbusiness circle more than two weeks AFTER the birth.
We then spent a further two weeks seeking a response to the story from his publicists.
None was forthcoming and indeed we did not publish anything until Grant’s publicist issued a statement describing the baby as the product of a ‘fleeting affair’.
Throughout the Mail behaved with total journalistic propriety.”
