Hugh Grant: 'I'm not invited to Liz's wedding'

Hugh Grant has been left off the invite list for the wedding of ex-girlfriend Liz Hurley, he has revealed.

The Four Weddings And A Funeral star will not be attending the lavish celebrations in Gloucestershire and India.

It was rumoured that Jemima Khan, Grant's new love, has banned him from going. But he has not actually been invited, according to Hello! magazine.

"That's not surprising," he said. "I don't think many people invite their ex when they get married, so I'm not at all bitter, and there's no bad feeling or weirdness, we're just not invited."

Hurley will wed Indian businessman Arun Nayar in March.

Grant, 46, broke up with Hurley in 2000 and has been dating Khan for the past two-and-a-half years.

Billionaire's daughter Khan is a positive influence in his life, he said.

"I have quite a strong girlfriend who shakes me like a rat and just says, 'Get on with things!' I like a strong woman and always have.

"I expect it's all to do with one's mother. My mother was quite a strong woman, and I find that men who have strong mothers get quite attracted to strong women thereafter."

Grant's latest film is the romantic comedy Music and Lyrics with Drew Barrymore, which opens next month.

His next project may be a novel - and one with a familiar main character.

"My girlfriend has actually got me to the point where I have managed to write some pages - I'm 60 pages in," he revealed.

"I actually had the idea for it 18 years ago, in which I've taken all the worst aspects of myself an exaggerated them wildly into this chilling and depressing anti-hero, who is my main character."