You may remember the iconic movie Love Actually, where Hugh Grant played the Prime Minister in a comical and romantic Christmas tale.
Well, someone made the unfortunate mistake of confusing Grant for actual former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
We wouldn't say the two look similar but Grant did make a pretty convincing British leader.
It all began with a Twitter user named Sophie (@Soph1efazz) who tweeted an image of Grant from the film standing outside Number 10 and waxing nostalgic about how well the film's character would have treated Britains.
Sophie captioned the image:
"He would’ve never treated us like this."
he would’ve never treated us like this pic.twitter.com/uE2AXpEQxq
— soph❤️🔥 (@Soph1efazz) December 8, 2021
The tweet went viral with over 94.3 thousand likes and with most people recognizing the actor.
However, one Twitter user, Natalia (@NataliaAlGhoul), did not realize this was not Tony Blair.
Natalia replied:
"Iraq says hi."
hugh grant didn’t invade iraq
— soph❤️🔥 (@Soph1efazz) December 9, 2021
As good of an actor as Hugh Grant is, he certainly did not invade Iraq.
Though Natalia corrected herself, the rest of the internet caught wind of the mix up and wasted no time.
Babalola (@BeeBabs) took screenshots and tweeted it out to her 116.4 thousand followers.
pic.twitter.com/ERXNzEtHkX
— Bolu Babalola (@BeeBabs) December 9, 2021
Twitter could not get enough of this hilarious mix up.
Natalia was totally roasted.
this is FUNNY omg https://t.co/TAbAFr48zZ
— Darla 🇬🇾 (@FW0111) December 10, 2021
I laughed until I cried haha https://t.co/FySZekcZCy
— mar (@marwapdf) December 10, 2021
Made me howl https://t.co/oaXMJqfFdl
— Liv ✨ (@oliviamackey1) December 9, 2021
Can always rely on Twitter to cheer me up while I’m cooped up with 🦠 todays laugh is someone thinking Hugh Grant is Tony Blair 😂 https://t.co/ONSYyzexnD
— Jonathan Moore (@altymoore1) December 10, 2021
absolute blasphemy, hugh grant deserves better than to be mistaken for tony blair lmao https://t.co/odVsXTkIys
— connor (@connor_wright98) December 9, 2021
Tony Blair is feeling pretty good about himself right now.
Not just about the whole illegal invasion and destruction of Iraq - apparently he looks like Hugh Grant!
— Chris Cox (@CoxyJindas) December 9, 2021
This is the content I’m here for honestly. https://t.co/t5QNgrbIed
— Siri Srinivas (@pjux) December 9, 2021
Natalia may be embarrassed but she's taking it in stride.
Growing up means laughing at your mistakes 😂 https://t.co/ZUNmq4PT1u
— Tahls 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇳🇿 (@NataliaAlGhoul) December 10, 2021
She even took the time to apologize to Grant about mistaking him for Blair.
Natalia tweeted:
“Sorry for saying you invaded Iraq. I thought the photo was Tony Blair."
Sorry for saying you invaded Iraq. I thought the photo was tony blair 😂😭 https://t.co/xW5lpUEEDR
— Tahls 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇳🇿 (@NataliaAlGhoul) December 10, 2021
Grant hasn't replied to her tweet just yet.
Hopefully this will give her enough time to re-watch Love Actually before then.
