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Hugh Grant, Ellen join top names
LONDON, England -- Actor Hugh Grant and yachtswoman Ellen MacArthur are among the latest batch of celebrities to be awarded a revered place in the new edition of the British guide to top names, Who's Who. The star of "About A Boy" and the record-breaking sportswoman have joined around 1,000 newcomers who grace the pages of the famous red book this year. More than 32,000 mini autobiographies feature in the 155th edition of the celebrated guide to status, published on Friday. Celebrities traditionally face a "test of time" hurdle before they are included, as no one is removed from the book until they die. Film star Grant -- whose ex-girlfriend Liz Hurley has yet to be listed -- reveals in his entry that his middle names are John and Mungo.
He cites football and singing as his hobbies, despite saying recently that he sings "like a hyena." More unusual pastimes added this year include screenwriter Julian Fellowes -- who won an Oscar for the Robert Altman drama "Gosford Park" -- declares that he does "too little sport and too much eating." Ellen MacArthur, 26, who became the fastest woman and youngest person ever to circumnavigate the globe single-handed during the Vendee Globe yacht race in 2001, was one of the youngest new entries. Entrants in Who's Who, which goes on sale for £130 ($210) are transferred when they die to retrospective volumes titled Who Was Who.
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