Wakin’ And Bacon: Rupert Grint Had Swine Flu

Rupert Grint, of Larry Hotter fame, is the first international celebrity to have contracted swine flu, according to his publicist. The actor took a few days off from filming the latest in the Larry Hotter series, Larry Hotter and the Greasy Gallows, to combat the virus, which is still ravaging South America despite a drop in the U.S. His has since, reportedly, fully recovered and is well enough to attend the movie’s London premiere this coming Tuesday.

It’s never really the ones you hope for, is it? Well, that sounded terrible. It’s not that we actively wish that certain celebrities would come down with influenza. But, you know. If someone has to have it, why not someone… less savory? Or someone who really wanted to come down with it, you know?

Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag were so keep on contracting swine flu during their 143rd wedding in Mexico, and even convinced themselves that they’d had it. They even turned into giant, irrelevant, diseased pigs. Sad.

Harry Potter star ‘had swine flu’ [BBC]