Grant's un-sporting seduction

Hugh Grant has been linked to a number of women recently

In recent weeks he has comforted the wife of golfer Colin Montgomerie and been spotted out on the town with Jemima Khan.


Now Hugh Grant's private life is under the spotlight once more as he faces claims of seducing his personal trainer.

According to Brazilian barman Augusto Junior, Grant stole Dana Verbytska from him.

The Love Actually star and the 25-year-old blonde were seen working out together three weeks ago alongside his £140,000 Bentley.

But Mr Junior, who is in his 20s, says that Ukrainian-born Miss Verbytska is more than just friends with the actor. He claims she admitted to the fling before quitting the flat they shared in Battersea, South London.

Mr Junior told friends: 'He's a big famous film star, how can I compete with that? He's turned her head with his fame and wealth. I don't know whether he knew she had a boyfriend but Grant's taken the woman I love away from me.'

Miss Verbytska became 43-year-old Grant's trainer after meeting him at the Chelsea gym where she works.

Mr Junior claims to have become suspicious after noticing that Miss Verbytska, his girlfriend of two years, had been calling Grant at night.

'You don't ring a client at midnight,' he said. A friend of Mr Junior said: 'He is convinced something has been going on. He confronted Dana but she denied there was any romance and insisted they were not sleeping together.'

Last week Grant was pictured leaving a high-society club in London with Mrs Khan. The two, who insist they are just good friends, went to extraordinary lengths to avoid being photographed together.

Mrs Khan, 30, and her cricketer-turned-politician husband Imran, have insisted they are not on the verge of separation amid speculation about their marriage.

It was during 34-year-old Eimear Montgomerie's split with husband Colin that Grant comforted her.

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