[MaryJane]

HUGH GRANT is baffled by the fuller figure he sports in new movie AMERICAN DREAMZ, because he tried to slim down for the part.

The British actor, who plays a talent show judge in the AMERICAN IDOL satire, admits he misunderstood the idea of healthy eating and accidentally piled on the pounds.

Grant, 45, says, "I got fatter than I've ever been in my life but the irony is I was trying to get thin. I thought I'd just eat health bars because I couldn't find any food I liked in LA but I didn't realise they had six billion calories in each one and that's why I'm so jowly in my latest film."

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