Hugh Grant has responded after Sajid Javid called the Hollywood star "incredibly rude" for not shaking his hand.
Mr Javid, who grew up in Stapleton Road in Bristol, told ES Magazine how an encounter with the actor at the London film premiere of Martin Scorsese's The Irishman left him "completely shocked".
"[Hugh Grant] said, 'When you were culture secretary you didn't support my friends in Hacked Off,'" Mr Javid said. "I think that is incredibly rude."
He added: "I wonder if people like Hugh Grant think they are part of the elite and they look down on working class people no matter what station they reach in life."
However, a spokesperson for Mr Grant told PA news agency that the film star had actually told Mr Javid something else, Manchester Evening News reports.
The spokesperson said Mr Grant actually said "if you don't mind, I won't shake your hand because you were rude and dismissive to the victims of press abuse when you met them as culture secretary" when he offered his hand.
The 59-year-old actor, a victim of the phone-hacking scandal, has been one of the leading voices in the campaign for stricter press regulation and is a regular spokesperson for the group Hacked Off.
His spokesperson added: "Hugh would like to point out that the victims in question were not celebrities. They were people with personal family tragedies who had been abused by sections of the press."
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