20 year-old hot ginger actor Rupert Grint, best known as Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter films, came with the swine flu, his publicist confirms. Grint had a mild case, though, that only required a few days away from filming Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows. He is said to be recovered now and plans to attend the premiere of the much-anticipated sixth Harry Potter film, The Half Blood Prince, in London on Tuesday.
It seems that there’s no magic spell against the swine flu.
Rupert Grint, 20, who plays Harry Potter’s pal Ron Weasley, caught the notorious bug while filming the latest movie in the wizard series but is now well enough to attend Tuesday’s London premiere of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
“It has just been confirmed that Rupert Grint has taken a few days out of filming due to a mild bout of swine flu,” his rep says in a statement. “He has now recovered and is looking forward to joining his fellow cast members at the junket and premieres this week and will then return to filming directly afterwards.”
Grint’s doctor determined that the actor is not contagious, the rep adds.
Filmmakers of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows were able to shoot around Grint’s absence and no production days were lost, the rep says.
[From People]
A lot of people have probably had mild cases of swine flu that went undiagnosed and have cleared up by now. I really think that the media hype was unwarranted, but my husband is a scientist and he claims that it’s understandable since it’s so rare that viruses mutate from being passed from animal to human to human to human. Swine flu can also can cause severe illness and death in young people, which isn’t typical of seasonal flu. At this point, it doesn’t seem to be the huge pandemic that we were warned about and it’s oddly comforting to hear that a minor celebrity has come down with it and is fine. Let’s hope that it’s under control now and that cases like Rupert’s are typical.
Rupert Grint is shown at the Berlinale on 2/8/09 and on set in London on 4/22/09 and in Wales on 5/12/09. Credit: WENN.com
Mmm. Rupert, you sexy ginger. I wouldn’t care if you had Mad Cow Disease ;]
Haha!! Ditto!
Celebitchy, I think many people are worried about it coming back around during the regular flu season and being much more deadly then, at least that is what I heard.
Aww poor Ron feel better buddy. Can’t wait for HBP.
I hear you, Katt. He is so damn hot. Yum.
He’s such a sweetheart – he used to go to the same hairdresser as me when I lived in the UK and I sat next to him a few times and hadn’t a clue who he was – I thought he was cute as all hell tho and asked his hairdresser who he was one day and she was telling me he was some actor in a kid’s film – neither of us were into Harry Potter at the time. Sigh…
uhhhhh, are you sure he didn’t start the swine flu?
:/
wait wait… where is he hiding the sexy? cuz i don’t see it… the kid still has pimples for chrissake!
H1N1!
And as for it being rare, aren’t most flus zoological in origin? At least the major ones have been right? Like something about the influenza virus potentially being a result of our domestication of animals?
Some very powerful men in politics have money and stock in the swine flu vaccines.
A few deaths and they will make billions$$$ off the shots everyone will freak out and take. Donald Rumsfeld (for example) not only owns major stock in the vaccine (Tamiflu), but I believe he used to be a CEO in the company. Its just another way to scare the public into making some greedy pigs rich (the real meaning of “swine” flu).
Is it real, did he really caught swine flu?