Ooh what could it be. Could it be he likes kerb crawling for hookers on Sunset Boulevard, no we know that. Could it be he is a really great actor, no, far too unlikely. Actually he is an all round pretty good egg, hey, I like kerb crawling also. Lots of p*ss taking and fun to be had in this book of utter nonsense. God knows why you bought it. Look don't, just don't..... In July 2011, actor Steve Coogan described the author as "morally bankrupt" after appearing with him on BBC Newsnight. Hugh Grant attempted to secretly tape him making claims about phone hacking in a visit to McMullan's pub, The Castle Inn in Dover. McMullan asked Grant during the conversation "Are you taping me? If you are good luck to you I don't really care anyway." He was one of only a few journalists to claim on the record that phone hacking was rife at the newspaper. In November 2011 he made a notable contribution to the Leveson Inquiry where he not only confessed to a wide range of illegal activities in the pursuit of news but defended them as absolutely necessary. In his testimony he presented a robust opposition to the concept of privacy, despite his own personal paranoia toward his own personal privacy being compromised. This paranoia extending to his long-standing disguising of his personal whereabouts and circumstances. McMullan notably told the enquiry that "Privacy is for paedos." Grant and McMullan have appeared together on the BBC News Channel and Radio 5 Live.