Hugh Grant: Mail on Sunday listened to my messages

Hugh Grant today accused the Mail on Sunday of hacking his phone to write a false story that his relationship with Jemima Khan was "on the rocks".

The actor named the paper to the Leveson Inquiry as he claimed it concocted an untrue article in 2007 that stated Grant had been making "late-night" phone calls to a female executive at Warner Brothers.

The Four Weddings and A Funeral star, who successfully sued the paper for libel, said innocent "charming and jokey" work-related voicemails left by a production company's assistant had been listened to by journalists and misreported.

He said: "I cannot for the life of me think of any conceivable source for the story in the Mail on Sunday except those voicemail messages on my mobile telephone."

Grant also claimed his medical records had been leaked and slammed the paparazzi, who he accused of being from the "criminal classes" with "no ethics".