Hotel Secrets with Richard E Grant

“Sphincter-winking terror I’m experiencing!” giggles Richard E. Grant as he heads to meet “the Donald” – commander-in-chief of Trump Tower. It’s the only nerve-jangling moment that the Oscar-nominated actor experiences in this gleeful skip around the world’s most exclusive hotels. From the Augustus suite at Caesar’s Palace where you can’t even pay to stay there, to a $44k-a-night penthouse.

How would you like to spend a night in the hotel where your hero has died? Sounds morbid, but Oscar-nominated actor Richard E. Grant makes this a fascinating romp, breathlessly exploring the Bastille’s L’Hotel in Paris where dying Oscar Wilde quipped “My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One… of us has to go” to New York’s Chelsea Hotel, where Dylan Thomas spent his last days.

What’s your worst hotel misdemeanor? ‘Accidentally’ left with a towel in your bag? Sneaked something out of the minibar? Richard E. Grant’s looking for something a little more… scandalous. He finds it at Hollywood’s exclusive Chateau Marmont – where Jean Harlow and Clark Gable conducted a steamy affair, Lindsay Lohan amassed a $46k unpaid bill and Howard Hughes got up to no good in the penthouse.

Imagine being so important that when you’re displeased with the bathroom decor, your hotel instals a pink marble suite for you instead. Richard E. Grant discovers the lengths that top hotels will go to wow A-list guests. From Elizabeth Taylor’s bespoke bathroom at London’s Dorchester to Dalí’s demands at Paris’s Le Meurice. Plus, Grant samples the high life with an eye-watering $5,000 burger.

Star Wars actor Richard E. Grant invites us to hop on his celebrity coat-tails and check into the world’s most exclusive hotels. We visit London’s Goring to discover the lengths it’s taken to become the British Royal Family’s unofficial favorite. Then it’s back to LA to see how Hollywood royalty tie the knot, meeting the wedding planner who’s organized weddings for Gwen Stefani and Katy Perry.

Imagine if hotel walls could talk… Luckily they don’t have to, as Star Wars actor Richard E. Grant extracts juicy details of the dangerous liaisons that have steamed up the windows of the planet’s top getaways. From the secret stairway used by one of Tinseltown’s most notorious ladies’ men, to L’Hotel in Paris, where Serge Gainsbourg whispered more than a “je t’aime” or two.

Oscar-nominated actor Richard E Grant heads on a madcap tour of the Emerald Isle: discovering juicy gossip about Brad Pitt’s night-time eating habits at Ireland’s 5-star Ashford Castle, snooping hilariously through U2 frontman Bono’s bathroom cabinet in his Dublin hotel, The Clarence, and visiting the most bombed hotel in Europe.

You can be certain that a few hoteliers will think back with alarm about the celebrity secrets they’ve spilled in this series. It’s entirely down to the charm of our host, who is so outrageous and wildly funny that they clearly can’t help but spill the beans. Grant finishes up in the French Riviera, the highlight of which is the Hotel Byblos where Bianca and Mick Jagger tied the knot.