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Love to See It with Emma and Claire

‘Notting Hill’ Brings The Coziest End-Of-Year Vibes w/Zach Stafford (Encore)

Love to See It with Emma and Claire

Claire Fallon, Emma Gray

Tv & Film

4.35.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2025

⏱️ 124 minutes

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Summary

We’re just podcast hosts, standing in front of our listeners, asking them to rewatch Notting Hill. Again! Today we’re revisiting our episode breaking down the classic rom-com, Notting Hill – an ideal movie to spend a cozy holiday afternoon with. When a bookstore owner (Hugh Grant) and a famous actress (Julia Roberts) fall in love, we get a charming tale that explores the many pitfalls of fame. Joining us to break it all down is co-host of Vibe Check, Zach Stafford!

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0:00.0

Hey friends, happy holidays. I hope you're all enjoying this time as much as we assuredly are

0:07.7

somewhere. And in order to pass the times together, even though we're on a little holiday

0:12.5

break, we wanted to re-release a wonderful episode that we really enjoyed making our recap of

0:20.8

Notting Hill with Zach Stafford.

0:23.0

Incredible guest, incredible film, and also just felt appropriate given that we

0:29.2

recently revisited two other Hugh Grant classics, Sense and Sensibility from 1995,

0:37.0

and 1994 is four weddings and a funeral.

0:40.4

And this just feels like the natural next phase of Hugh Grant as a floppy-haired American

0:48.9

rom-com hero.

0:51.2

Yeah, the sex symbol that we all needed and still need, I think, deep down. And yes,

0:58.0

exactly. Like, we rewatch Notting Hill last year and talked to the wonderful Zach Stafford about it.

1:05.1

And then more recently, we watched four weddings and a funeral. And it actually made me appreciate

1:10.5

Notting Hill even

1:12.2

more and appreciate his reformance and Notting Hill even more and then of course since insensibility.

1:18.1

Like we're really getting into the Hugh Grant canon and so we were thinking fondly of this episode

1:24.3

and the many forays we've taken into understanding Hugh Grant's

1:29.1

Uvra and that seems like the perfect movie and the perfect rewatch to curl up with on a

1:36.6

cold, cozy Christmas week. I was going to say it's a very cozy movie. Just think about

1:43.7

that beautiful, beautiful scene where the seasons are passing, and Hugh Grant is walking through the market.

1:52.3

Yeah, I always think what could be more cozy than being holed up for a little sex capade with a charming but diffident English bookshopkeeper for a couple days. You know,

2:05.3

that's that's the epitome of cozy holiday fun. Unless your secret boyfriend or unless your

2:12.9

public boyfriend, Alec Baldwin, interrupts your romance and then and then it gets a little bit tough. But no,

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