While Hugh Grant’s family might want him to get back together with Jemima Khan, Jemima’s family are reportedly relieved that the relationship is over - and Jemima is too.

A source told the Daily Mail: “The fact is that, from the very beginning, the Goldsmith clan realised Jemima’s relationship with Hugh would not last.”

“In the final analysis they came from different worlds. To put it bluntly, Hugh was just too middle-class for the Goldsmiths, so he was always living on borrowed time. In fact, he did rather well to last as long as he did.”

“Hugh is a takeaway meal in front of the telly kind of guy, nothing like the rather grand Goldsmiths.”

“[Jemima’s mother Lady Annabel Goldsmith] still jokes about the time when they spent one of their first evenings together back in 2004. Jemima was ready to introduce her mother to the new man in her life over a meal when Hugh breezed in with two plastic bags of curry from the local Indian restaurant, plonked them on the table and said: ‘Tuck in, girls!’”

The source added that after years away from the London social scene while married to Imran Khan, Jemima herself had hoped that Hugh would be a suitable party companion: “Much to her disappointment, it turned out that Hugh didn’t like socialising at all. In fact, he hated it. He even resented having to promote his films, and would rather stay at home than go out to eat at a restaurant, anathema to Jemima.”

“In the end she got thoroughly sick of it.”

But Hugh didn’t take well to being dumped: “It took him completely by surprise.”

“Hugh is used to doing the dumping, so this is unfamiliar territory for him - and it’s fair to say he doesn’t like it.”

“To use his own terminology, Hugh is “really rather put out”, which is a typically reticent way of putting it. He’s been saying: ‘The funny thing is that I was just coming round to the idea that she was my girlfriend.’”

A second source told the Sunday Mirror that Hugh has been trying to win Jemima back. Earlier this week, he sent her a bouquet of white lilies with a note asking her to give their relationship another chance. The source told the newspaper that she’s not desperate to take him back: “She isn’t rushing into a decision and won’t meet him until she feels it’s 100 per cent right.”