Hugh Grant prefers Bridget Jones-style bloomers for Jemima Khan!

According to The Mirror, Grant bought white cotton vests and plain pants at upmarket sex toy and lingerie emporium Myla in West London. “Each time he makes it clear he doesn’t want anything lacy or colourful. On his most recent visit, he specifically wanted white cotton vests and plain pants. He didn’t want g-strings either.

They had to be Bridget Jones-style big pants, like mini-boxer shorts. Hugh also bought a vest with naughty sailor girls on the front and a vest with a butterfly. Whether he likes his girlfriend, Jemima Khan, to wear them or whether she asked him to get them for her, he didn’t say. But he seemed very satisfied with his purchases,” an insider was quoted as saying.

Liz Hurley's beau seeks divorce

Nayar, from Bombay, is claiming that his wife Valentina Pedroni put him through "mental torture" during their marital life.

"He [Nayar] has said in his petition that my client Valentina was cruel to him," Pedroni's lawyer Mrinalini Deshmukh said.

"That is the ground on which he is seeking divorce from my client. I cannot reveal more than this."

Deshmukh said the petition would be heard in Bombay's Bandra family court on May 5.

The Times of India said yesterday that Nayar alleges Pedroni treated him "in a most cruel manner, continuously torturing him mentally by making wild allegations and harassing him".

They married in Bombay in 1997 and then under Italian law in Milan and lived in a south Bombay apartment facing the sea.

Nayar and Hurley, meanwhile, have been romantically involved for nearly three years and are often seen at parties and fundraisers in Britain and the United States.

Hurley, mother of three-year-old Damian by former movie producer Steve Bing, is reported to be learning Hindi to impress Nayar, whose family runs a textile export business.

The British actress has paid repeat visits to India and is said to have been accepted by the Nayar family ahead of a marriage once the divorce goes through.