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09:05 May 7th, 2008

Watch stopped? Time to break up

Posted by: Mike Collett-White
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grant.jpgjemima.jpgDecisions, decisions. In a bizarre admission, British socialite Jemima Khan has revealed how she decided once and for all to dump a boyfriend only when the watch he bought her stopped. In a recent article in Vogue magazine, the 34-year-old described her indecision as a “chronic affliction” that had got steadily worse over the last decade.

While no names were mentioned, the British press wasted little time in naming the jilted lover in this case as actor Hugh Grant, who the Daily Mail reported bought then-girlfriend Khan a 3,000-pound watch to match his own in 2004. The couple split in 2007.

“I’ve even found myself waiting for ‘a sign’,” Khan said in the article. “The watch given to me by a boyfriend when we first met packed up at the point at which the relationship had clearly run its course. I took it as the clear signal I needed that our time was finally up, though of course I’d known that for months.”

Would Khan and Grant still be an item had the time piece in question kept ticking?

3 comments so far

She seems very neurotic. Hugh must have been relieved when the watch stopped ticking!

- Posted by Emma

i guess the watch stopped at a time exactly when Hugh wished it would…… well, it explains- he’s the one who bought it in the first place!!!!

- Posted by raynu

I sure didn’t know Grant had girlfriend?…we in the States didn’t know what was going on with Grant love life?,and who is she????

- Posted by sikir

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