Posted by Richard Head

Tuesday December 8, 2009

HUGH Grant has nightmares about reaching 50.

The Hollywood bachelor — who previously dated actress-and-model Elizabeth Hurley and socialite Jemima Khan – is dreading reaching the landmark age and fears time is running out for him to get married and have children.

“It’s not a good number 50 and we all have age terrors sometimes in the middle of the night,” said Hugh, who turns 50 in September next year.

“I think I might have made a sort of pact with the devil in which I think I can have fun now and sort everything later. But then he comes back and says, ‘Times up and I’m taking you to hell as you’re going to be a lonely, sad old man.’”

Although the Bridget Jones’s Diary star worries he won’t ever become a father, he believes he would be a great dad if he did.

“I have no doubt that I’d be a marvellous father,” he said. “Maybe not when they’re tiny but when they’re a little bit older I think I’d be rather good. I’ve noticed I’ve become good with my nephews and nieces and cousins, so I don’t have that doubt. “

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