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Hugh Grant Not Beaned with Charges

Fri., Jun. 1, 2007 6:40 PM PDT by Natalie Finn

Hugh Grant won't be feeling the aftereffects of these beans.

A spokeswoman for Britain's Crown Prosecution Service said Thursday night that there was "insufficient evidence" with which to charge the actor in relation to the fracas that ensued when he hurled a container—plastic, not a can—of baked beans at a looming paparazzo.

Grant was arrested Apr. 24 near his West London home on suspicion of assault after the same shutterbug claimed that the Music and Lyrics star kicked him in addition to hurling the legumes. The 46-year-old Englishman was taken into custody and released on bail about an hour of questioning.

He won't be charged for the alleged kick "because there were clear discrepancies between the accounts of independent witnesses and those of the photographers involved," the CPS spokeswoman said, adding that it is "not in the public interest" to prosecute him for the beans-related part of the incident, the CPS spokeswoman said.

"The minimal nature of the alleged assault and the lack of premeditation on the part of Mr. Grant" also factored into the decision.

Daily Star photographer Ian Whittaker claimed that he happened to be in the neighborhood to snap a few pictures of Grant's ex-girlfriend, Elizabeth Hurley, who was still fairly fresh from marrying Indian businessman Arun Nayar. The couple swapped vows in March.

Instead, Whittaker ended up "bruised, battered and covered in baked beans," he said at the time. The photog, who also said that Grant said some pretty nah-sty things to him that day, filed a complaint with authorities but hasn't taken any civil action.

Other legal affairs going Grant's way include the libel suit he filed against Britain's Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday, which had reported, first, that his three-year relationship with heiress Jemima Khan ended due to some bizarre behavior on Grant's part, and then that it was his inability to get over Hurley that caused the split.

Both tabloids agreed in late April to issue an apology and pay him an undisclosed settlement. Grant's attorney said that he would donate the entire sum, whatever it ended up being, to the Marie Curie Cancer Care charity.