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Hugh Grant Talks Fatherhood for First Time: "I Like My Daughter Very Much"

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Mar. 19 2012, Published 5:29 a.m. ET

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Hugh Grant is speaking out on fatherhood for the first time since his daughter was born last September and is finally revealing her name! The 51-year-old actor admits that he's warmed up to fatherhood and even likes his daughter — whose mother, Tinglan Hong, 32, he had a "fleeting affair" with — "very much."

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The new dad has struggled to deal with the paparazzi surrounding the news of his daughter's birth and blames them for being delayed to the hospital.

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"I was at one of the party conferences, about to give a speech and was pacing about on the end of the phone," Hugh tells The Guardian in a new interview. "I shouldn't have gone to the hospital at all, because it brought all this attention down on the mother's head. But I couldn't really resist it, so I went on the second day."

Hugh surprised himself with how being a father made him feel admitting he "did feel a little lumpy" when he met her for the first time. He actually thought he'd have to fake it!

"Um, lots of people warned me about that; they said never let anyone know, but the baby period is not that exciting. But I am excited, actually. I thought, well, I'll bluff through — but very little bluffing has been required. I like my daughter very much. Fantastic. Has she changed my life? I'm not sure. Not yet. Not massively, no. But I'm absolutely thrilled to have had her, I really am. And I feel a better person."

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Hugh named his daughter the English name Tabitha and her mother gave her a Chinese name. 

The actor says he has felt "pride" for being a parent, but plans on being a strict dad. His daughter won't be a "trust-fund" baby saying, "I see nothing but f***-ups among my trust-fund friends. It's like 99 percent f***-ups. So I would not want to do that to my children, no."

Sounds like Hugh already has the parenting thing down!

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