What A Diffrence A Day Makes!

Hugh Grant. Colin Firth. Both born in 1960. Both born in September. Hugh, on the 9th, and Colin on the 10th.

And yet, what very different Virgos they are - on and off screen!

HUGH...

Public scandals

On 27 June 1995, Grant was arrested by L.A. Vice officers in a residential area not far from Sunset Boulevard for misdemeanour lewd conduct in a public place with Hollywood prostitute Divine Brown.[142] He pleaded no contest to the charges. He was fined $ 1,180 (??800), placed on two years' summary probation, and was ordered to complete an AIDS education program.[143][144]

The arrest occurred about two weeks before the release of Grant's first major studio film, Nine Months, which he was scheduled to promote on several American television shows. The Tonight Show with Jay Leno had him booked for the same week and, as recalled in former employee Don Sweeney's memoirs, "despite his arrest, Hugh Grant kept his appointment to appear on Jay's show."[145] The interview was a career-making hit for Leno and Grant was singled out for not making excuses for the incident.[146][147] He famously said:

— I think you know in life what's a good thing to do and what's a bad thing, and I did a bad thing. And there you have it.[148] ??

In April 2007, Grant was arrested on allegations of assault made by paparazzo Ian Whittaker.[153] Grant made no official statement and did not comment on the incident.[154] Charges were dropped on 1 June by the Crown Prosecution Service due to "insufficient evidence."

COLIN...

Firth has been involved in a campaign to stop the deportation of a group of asylum seekers, because he believed that they might be murdered on their return to the Democratic Republic of Congo.[17] Firth argued that "To me it's just basic civilisation to help people. I find this incredibly painful to see how we dismiss the most desperate people in our society. It's easily done. It plays to the tabloids, to the Middle-England xenophobes. It just makes me furious. And all from a government we once had such high hopes for".[18] As a result of the campaign, a Congolese nurse was given a last-minute reprieve from deportation.[19]

Firth has been a long-standing supporter of Survival International, a charity which defends the rights of tribal peoples.[20] Speaking in 2001, he said, "My interest in tribal peoples goes back many years... and I have supported [Survival] ever since."[21]