Grant filming with Sarah Jessica Parker on 4/9/09. Credit: Bauergriffinonline

TMZ has new video of British former heart throb Hugh Grant, 48, hauling off and kicking a photographer in the groin for what seems like no reason at all. Grant was leaving the Waverly Inn in New York with a female friend last night. The Waverly Inn is one of the few paparazzi hot spots in New York and celebrities who go there expect to be photographed outside. Grant and his date were happily chatting with the paparazzi, who were friendly and not rude at all from what I could hear. One guy asked Grant what he’d been up to and he joked that he was “wanking on Internet.”

Then a guy tells Grant that he should change direction if he wants to catch a cab and he turns, looks mean and kicks him in the crotch. It didn’t seem like he hurt him, and we can hear the photographer say it’s a good thing he put his hand up to protect himself. The whole thing was bizarre and you wonder what made Grant flip like that, seemingly without provocation.

Grant often looks annoyed in paparazzi pictures. He last kicked a photographer in an April, 2007 incident near his home in London. He also hauled a takeout container of beans at the guy, spraying beans in his hair. Grant was arrested and questioned by police, but charges were eventually dropped. It looks like his hatred for the paparazzi is so deep that he’ll even attack photographers that are being nice to him.

According to IMDB, Grant is working on a new film due with Sarah Jessica Parker, his first since 2007’s Music and Lyrics. He did make some really good coin in late 2007, over £9 million, selling an Andy Warhol painting of Elizabeth Taylor he bought in 2002. Maybe he should consider a new career if he can’t handle it when people take his photo occasionally.