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22 celebrities who have left Los Angeles on where they moved and why they did it
Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake left LA to shield their kids from the glare of the paparazzi. The power couple has dealt with the paparazzi for most of their professional careers. But they had enough of their kids also having to endure it. Since 2018, Biel, Timberlake, and their two kids have lived predominantly at their properties in Tennessee and Montana. "You get hammered on the East Coast. You kind of get hammered on the West Coast. That's why we don't really live there anymore," said Biel in a May 22 episode of SiriusXM's " Let's Talk Off Camera With Kelly Ripa," seemingly referring to her former home of LA. "We're just trying to create some normalcy for these kids." Dean Cain left LA for Las Vegas because of the "incredible taxation" and "horrible regulations for business" in California. Dean Cain, best known for playing Clark Kent/Superman in "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman," was fed up with how things were run in California. The actor split for Vegas last year. "It's the most ridiculous large government, incredible taxation, horrible regulations for business," he told Fox News Digital in 2023. "Very anti-business." Cain said California's personal income tax felt especially high. "I moved to Las Vegas. I live in Nevada now," he added. "I have 10 times as nice a house. I'm not kidding. Ten times as nice a house as I had in Malibu. The house is absolutely stunningly built. Gorgeous, beautiful. Everything is brand new." Kelly Clarkson didn't just move from LA to New York — she took her daytime talk show with her. Kelly Clarkson felt she had a new lease on life when she moved to New York City last year. After finalizing her divorce from ex-husband Brandon Blackstock in 2022, she didn't just take her kids east. She also brought "The Kelly Clarkson Show" — it started taping in New York in season 5. "I was very depressed for the last three years — and maybe a little before that, if I'm being honest. I think I really needed the change," the Grammy winner told People. "I needed it for me and my family as well. My kids are thriving here. We're just doing so much better, and we needed a fresh start." Jesse Eisenberg Actor and director Jesse Eisenberg took the pandemic as an opportunity to leave Los Angeles. Eisenberg, his wife, and their son packed up an RV and drove to his wife's hometown of Bloomington, Indiana. "We have driven cross-country a lot, but we thought it would be prudent to isolate in an RV instead of stopping at hotels," Eisenberg told The Hollywood Reporter. Initially, Eisenberg moved to Indiana to help take care of his late mother-in-law after she got sick and also help out at a domestic violence shelter where she worked. But Eisenberg was happy to be in Indiana. "I've lived in Indiana for a decade on-and-off and that's where I feel the most comfortable," Eisenberg told CBS News in February. "I'm not somebody who wants to surround myself in an industry that just feels kind of unstable." Walton Goggins "The White Lotus" star Walton Goggins and his wife Nadia Conners moved to New York's Hudson Valley during the pandemic in 2021. But, he told Architectural Digest in February, the move was less about California, and more about New York. "We weren't running away from Los Angeles," he said. "We were running toward something." "The pandemic opened windows of self-perception and possibility," he added. "It was an opportunity to do something different, not to start over from scratch but to change, to evolve." Goggins, who was raised in Georgia, chose to live in a 1920s home upstate that resembles a hunting lodge — with an abundance of wood paneling and wood flooring — instead of the glitzy surroundings of Los Angeles. John Goodman left LA in the late '80s. John Goodman figured out a long time ago that Los Angeles wasn't for him and has been living in New Orleans since the late 1980s. Like many, the Emmy winner first visited Crescent City to party. In the late 1970s, he showed up with his fraternity pals. A few years later, as an actor, he was shooting the movie "Everybody's All-American" alongside Dennis Quaid, Jessica Lange, and Timothy Hutton when he met his future wife, Anna Beth. He's been attached to the city ever since. "I used to come down here every time I'd get a few dimes to rub together, and it felt like I was missing something unless I was here," he told "Today" in 2023. "I consider myself very lucky to be here." Josh Harnett has been living in the English countryside since the pandemic. He left Hollywood after dealing with a stalker. The actor recently gained renewed attention thanks to movies like "Oppenheimer" and "Trap," but don't expect to find him hanging out on the Sunset Strip. Since the pandemic, he's ditched LA for the English countryside. Harnett and his wife, British actor Tamsin Egerton, have lived in Hampshire since COVID hit, bringing up their four kids. He's living in the UK on a marriage visa, so he can only leave the country for work 180 days a year. After spending his early career in the Hollywood spotlight, Harnett told The Guardian he loves the village country life where "nobody cares" who you are. "This is all brand new to me," he said. "I never would have expected it. And time passes quickly. With four children, you have so much to do. In a way, less is happening. But more of the important stuff is happening." Being outside Hollywood is also safer for Hartnett. He told The Guardian that when he lived in LA, he had experiences with stalkers. "People showed up at my house. People that were stalking me," he said. "A guy showed up at one of my premieres with a gun, claiming to be my father. He ended up in prison. There were lots of things. It was a weird time. And I wasn't going to be grist for the mill." Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban moved to Tennessee to be closer to the country music scene. A year after Nicole Kidman tied the knot with country-music star Keith Urban, the two got the heck out of LA. In 2007, they moved to Nashville, where the Australian Oscar winner dove headfirst into Urban's world. "That country-music community is a very warm community," she told People in 2016. "It's very protective. Keith's been a part of it for decades now. It's his home, it's our home." Lindsay Lohan left LA for Dubai and now has privacy, peace, and space. Lohan has lived on both coasts, but she currently prefers to be in the United Arab Emirates, where she lives with her husband, financier Bader Shammas, and their two-year-old son. In a May 2025 profile in Elle, Lohan said that when she was living in Los Angeles, she would be "stressed" about the paparazzi taking photos of her while at the park with her son. Living in New York, there's a "different kind of energy" but not as much space. Living in Dubai, she gets it all. Eva Longoria and her family split time between Mexico and Spain. The star and producer made the decision a few years ago to move out of Los Angeles. She now splits her time between Mexico and Spain. She told Marie Claire in 2024 that she left Hollywood behind because it felt like that "chapter in my life is done now." While recently on " Live with Kelly and Mark," Longoria said she loves traveling to the Andalucía region of Spain to enjoy the small beach bars and restaurants. Matthew McConaughey headed to Texas to help his family. A few years before the McConaissance led to Matthew McConaughey's best actor Oscar win, he and his wife Camila Alves fled Hollywood for his home state of Texas. The two settled in Austin in 2012 after buying a 10,800-square-foot mansion. According to a profile in Southern Living, it was initially because of a "family crisis," as he needed to help his mother and two brothers. That led to the couple deciding to stay put to raise their three children there. "Ritual came back," McConaughey said of being back in Texas. "Whether that was Sunday church, sports, dinner together as a family every night, or staying up after that telling stories in the kitchen, sitting at the island pouring drinks and nibbling while retelling them all in different ways than we told them before." 'This is Us' star Chrissy Metz packed up for the Southern hospitality of Nashville. After 21 years on the grind in LA, Metz packed up and left town when the pandemic hit. She now resides in Nashville. "There's a lot going on," "The Hunting Wives" star told People in April 2025. "There's obviously great music, great food. I grew up in the South, so I'm used to sort of that hospitality — it feels more communal here. In LA it was always like, 'Oh, you have an audition? What's it for? Oh, you have an audition? What for?' It was all very dog eat dog!" Glen Powell moved to Texas after making it big in LA. Glen Powell left Los Angeles and returned to his home state of Texas in 2024. Powell, who had a breakout role in " Top Gun: Maverick," has lived in Los Angeles for more than 15 years, but told The Hollywood Reporter that he's done enough in Hollywood and he feels he can now live elsewhere. "It's like I've earned the ability to go back to my family," he said. Not only does living in Texas allow Powell to be closer to family, but he's also finishing his degree at the University of Texas. "I think this is going to be good for my head, heart, and soul," he said. Amanda Seyfried headed to upstate New York for a taste of the simple life. With movies like "Mean Girls" and "Mamma Mia!" in her filmography, you would think Amanda Seyfried would want to lay her head down somewhere glamorous. But she actually prefers life on a farm. Seyfried spends most of her time on a farm in the Catskills, a mountain range north of New York City, told Architectural Digest reported in 2023. in 2023 that that she purchased in 2014. "It's insane how much I can feel so accomplished and successful here without having to be in a successful movie," she told The New York Times in 2020. Sylvester Stallone wanted a new start in Florida. After decades of living in Los Angeles — including in his first dingy on Balboa Boulevard, which would become the inspiration for his iconic character Rocky Balboa — Sylvester Stallone packed up and left town in 2023. This was first revealed in early 2024, during season two of his reality series "The Family Stallone". "After a long, hard consideration, your mother and I have decided, time to move on and leave the state of California permanently, and we're going to go to Florida," Stallone said. "We're going to sell this house." Stallone and his wife, Jennifer Flavin, gave multiple reasons for the relocation, including the desire for a fresh start after their children moved out of the family home. Rod Stewart went back to his roots in England. The legendary rocker decided that at 79 years old, it was time to stop traveling across the pond. Last year, he put his sprawling 38,500-square-foot Beverly Hills property, which he has lived in since 1975, on the market. Selling the home is bittersweet for Stewart: "I don't want to sell it, and the kids don't want me to sell it either," Stewart told People. "There's too many fond memories. I've lived [in LA] since 1975, and I adore the place." But he said he's making England a more permanent home since wrapping up his latest world tour and Las Vegas residency last year. Hilary Swank moved to a Colorado ski town. The Oscar winner is loving her new life in the mountains of Telluride, Colorado, on 168 acres with five rescue dogs. She and her husband, Philip Schneider, bought the land in 2016, broke ground in 2018, and finally completed the home in 2020. A year later, she put her LA home on the market and has been living it up in the great outdoors. "I have been looking for land since I was in my mid-20s," Swank told Architectural Digest in 2022. "I find nature to be my happiest place, and animals are my other happiest place. And to be with both of them is everything to me." Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively left LA after just six months of dating. When you know, you know. After less than a year of dating, Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively packed up their stuff and left Hollywood for the suburbs of New York City. In 2012, after six months of dating, the couple bought a $2.3 million home in Pound Ridge, New York. "We don't live in LA. We live on a farm in New York," said the "Deadpool" star in a 2015 interview. "And we don't lead a wild and crazy life. It's not that hard. It's not a big deal." Julia Roberts hasn't lived in LA for decades. The Oscar winner realized many years ago that Los Angeles wasn't for her. Roberts moved to a 32-acre ranch in Taos, New Mexico, in 1995. The "Pretty Woman" star told Oprah back in 2003 that in New Mexico, everything is "clear." "Around here, I come and go like it's nothing," she said. "Los Angeles is such a town of show business, and I'm a terrible celebrity. I find it difficult — it's the beast that must be fed." Eric Stonestreet left Hollywood for Kansas City to get away from the "douchebaggery" of the business. "Modern Family" star Eric Stonestreet did not mince words when he explained why he's been living in Kansas City since the acclaimed show ended after 11 seasons in 2020. In a September interview with long-form interview journalist Graham Bensinger, he said a big reason he left LA was to get away from all the fake people in Hollywood. "What I realized it does is it highlights everything great about our business, the entertainment business," the actor said on what it's like to no longer live in LA. "And it highlights all the douchebaggery of our business. It amplifies it. Because I'm here, I'm dealing with people from here, and I'm going into the store and having all these authentic, real moments, and then I go to Hollywood, and you're reminded of some of the types of people that you deal with." James Van Der Beek moved his family out of LA after he and his wife renewed their vows in Austin. In 2020, James Van Der Beek and his wife Kimberly renewed their wedding vows for their 10th anniversary in Austin, Texas. A year later, they moved their six kids from LA to Austin, where they now live on a 36-acre property. "We wanted to get the kids out of Los Angeles," Van Der Beek told Austin Lifestyle in 2021. "We wanted to give them space and we wanted them to live in nature." Mark Wahlberg moved his family to Las Vegas for a "fresh start." Boston-born Mark Wahlberg set out to LA years ago to make it as an actor. Over his career, he realized he rarely stayed there to make any of his movies. So, in 2022, he packed up and moved his family to Las Vegas. He told The Talk in October 2022 that in Nevada his four kids can more easily pursue their hobbies, including golfing, riding horses, and playing basketball. "We came here to just kind of give ourselves a new look, a fresh start for the kids, and there's a lot of opportunity here," Wahlberg told The Talk. "I'm really excited about the future."
Elle
04-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Elle
Aimee Lou Wood and Walton Goggins Address Their Rumored ‘Feud': ‘We Care About Each Other Very Deeply'
'There is no feud,' Walton Goggins says of his relationship with Aimee Lou Wood, his co-star in The White Lotus season 3, courtesy of a new interview with Variety. That revelation might come as a surprise to series fans, some of whom have questioned the status of Goggins and Wood's friendship in the wake of the third season's debut earlier this spring. Feud rumors first circulated on the heels of comments by co-star Jason Isaacs, who repeatedly referred to 'social tensions' on the HBO drama's Thailand set. Those rumors were further inflamed by Goggins's physical separation from the rest of the ensemble cast, including Wood, post-wrap. As he explained to Variety, that distance wasn't personal: He's been preoccupied with production on Prime Video's Fallout season 2, and on the evening of The White Lotus season 3's finale, he was in New York for an appearance on a late-night show, far from his fellow cast members. In the latest chapter of showrunner Mike White's hit drama, Goggins and Wood play Rick and Chelsea, an unlikely pair of star-crossed lovers who meet a heart-breaking fate in the finale episode. During the Variety interview, in which Wood and Goggins were interviewed jointly, Goggins turned to Wood to express his sorrow at having missed the cast's finale watch party. 'I wish I would have been able to watch this with you,' he shared. 'It was so cathartic and so painful, and I regret that. I really do.' But as the two explained in the cathartic tell-all, they have nothing but love to share with each other, and their rumored 'feud' largely amounts to public misconception. 'I adore, I love this woman madly, and she is so important to me,' Goggins said of Wood. 'This is Goldie Hawn. This is Meg Ryan. She can do anything, and she will. You watch what the next 20 years of her experience will be. I'll be on an island, I think Greece. But she's special. There is no feud. She is love and I know that I am that to her. We care about each other very deeply.' In the days leading up to Goggins's recent Saturday Night Live hosting gig, the comedy show revealed a skit in which Sarah Sherman played a parody version of Wood's White Lotus character, Chelsea, complete with a pair of prosthetic buck teeth. Wood later went on Instagram to describe the sketch as 'mean and unfunny,' while Goggins reposted the clip and complimented its humor. Many viewers interpreted this move as a not-so-subtle swipe at Wood. Goggins told Variety it was anything but, and that after he encountered Wood's hurt response, he 'felt awful and deleted his post.' 'I've been posting for 14 fucking years, and if I'm gonna say something, I'm gonna say it to your face,' Goggins said. 'I don't use social media in any way, and I'm not a mean guy.' Added Wood, 'I think it's such a comment on where we're at culturally. Why is everyone obsessing over Instagram? That is irrelevant. We don't give a shite about Instagram.' Goggins also addressed why he unfollowed Wood on Instagram after The White Lotus wrapped, as well as his recent interview with the U.K.'s Times, which was published with the title, 'Walton Goggins: Aimee Lou Wood? I'm not gonna have that conversation.' Regarding the Times story, Goggins said he simply did not feel as if a solo interview was the right time and space to address his relationship with Wood. 'What am I gonna do, speak for both of us? Never,' he said. Regarding Instagram, he explained that he unfollowed Wood as a way to distance himself not from Wood herself but from the experience of filming The White Lotus. 'My catharsis in this experience was different than other people's, because of my history in this place,' Goggins said of his time in Thailand, referencing his time spent traveling the country in the wake of his wife's suicide in 2004. 'I knew what [Aimee and I] had gone through, and I knew how close that we had gotten, and I needed to begin to process saying goodbye to Rick and Chelsea,' Goggins continued. 'And I knew that that was going to take a while for me, so I let her know, this is what I've gotta do. And she was extremely supportive about that.' He continued, 'I needed to just back away from everyone. I haven't spoken to anyone [from the cast]. I couldn't handle it. Judge me or don't. I don't give a fuck what you think. This is my process. Rick means everything to me, and Chelsea means everything to me. And so that's what I needed to do for me to process all of this.' At the end of their conversation, Variety reports that Goggins re-followed Wood on Instagram, and that they embraced. 'I completely understand,' Wood told him. His response: 'I love you.' If only Rick could have expressed his feelings with this much clarity!
The Age
23-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Age
In fluoro yellow Speedos, Walton Goggins, 53, is the real White Lotus star
With a receding hairline showcasing a forehead that's resisted the lure of Botox, 53-year-old The White Lotus actor Walton Goggins is an unlikely candidate for fashion stardom. On the cover of this month's US magazine Cultured, Goggins has defied the odds – and airbrushing – by demonstrating his style credentials in a brief yellow Speedo swimsuit and suede jacket from Italian luxury label Zegna. By the youth-obsessed standards of the fashion industry, where 16-year-olds can walk the runway at Australian Fashion Week, Goggins should be languishing in a quilted smoking jacket on the back pages of GQ, not manspreading in a banana hammock on this season's coolest cover, photographed by Sinna Nasseri. 'It was impossible to ignore Goggins' style in The White Lotu s,' says celebrity stylist Mikey Ayoubi. 'It was well considered to work with his looks. On the handsome scale, he sits somewhere between Jim Carrey and Colin Farrell. They all have a similar quality.' Goggins' run of recent covers, including UK title Man About Town, The Hollywood Reporter and You, signals a shift in menswear modelling, with Daniel Craig, 57, having demonstrated his quirky side in knitwear for Loewe, Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen, 59, appearing in advertising campaigns for Zegna, and the red-carpet collaborations between Prada and Jeff Goldblum, 72. 'The Daniel Craig Loewe campaign and Miu Miu sending established actors like Willem Dafoe down the runway has definitely revitalised the idea of the old bachelor in fashion,' Ayoubi says. Loading As some menswear brands continue to struggle financially, with Jeremy Hershan, the creative director of Australian label Haulier, announcing today that he would be placing his business into 'hibernation', the seniors style strategy is worth exploring. 'There's a relatability to these faces that is appealing to the luxury consumer,' says contributing Vogue stylist Carlos Mangubat. 'With women it's the supermodels from the '90s, like Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington, that continue to engage with people. Older actors that are strangely familiar are the male version of that.
Sydney Morning Herald
23-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
In fluoro yellow Speedos, Walton Goggins, 53, is the real White Lotus star
With a receding hairline showcasing a forehead that's resisted the lure of Botox, 53-year-old The White Lotus actor Walton Goggins is an unlikely candidate for fashion stardom. On the cover of this month's US magazine Cultured, Goggins has defied the odds – and airbrushing – by demonstrating his style credentials in a brief yellow Speedo swimsuit and suede jacket from Italian luxury label Zegna. By the youth-obsessed standards of the fashion industry, where 16-year-olds can walk the runway at Australian Fashion Week, Goggins should be languishing in a quilted smoking jacket on the back pages of GQ, not manspreading in a banana hammock on this season's coolest cover, photographed by Sinna Nasseri. 'It was impossible to ignore Goggins' style in The White Lotu s,' says celebrity stylist Mikey Ayoubi. 'It was well considered to work with his looks. On the handsome scale, he sits somewhere between Jim Carrey and Colin Farrell. They all have a similar quality.' Goggins' run of recent covers, including UK title Man About Town, The Hollywood Reporter and You, signals a shift in menswear modelling, with Daniel Craig, 57, having demonstrated his quirky side in knitwear for Loewe, Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen, 59, appearing in advertising campaigns for Zegna, and the red-carpet collaborations between Prada and Jeff Goldblum, 72. 'The Daniel Craig Loewe campaign and Miu Miu sending established actors like Willem Dafoe down the runway has definitely revitalised the idea of the old bachelor in fashion,' Ayoubi says. Loading As some menswear brands continue to struggle financially, with Jeremy Hershan, the creative director of Australian label Haulier, announcing today that he would be placing his business into 'hibernation', the seniors style strategy is worth exploring. 'There's a relatability to these faces that is appealing to the luxury consumer,' says contributing Vogue stylist Carlos Mangubat. 'With women it's the supermodels from the '90s, like Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington, that continue to engage with people. Older actors that are strangely familiar are the male version of that.
The Independent
24-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
White Lotus star's father responds following son's ‘insane' bedroom scene
The White Lotu s season three continues to stun audiences and the cast alike with its explicit storylines, often involving nudity and graphic sexual descriptions. This season has already seen fans exposed to numerous full-frontal male nudity scenes and a bizarre sexual confession from a top star making a surprise cameo. While audiences have shared their shock at some of the revelations in the show, it would appear that even some of the cast's relatives have been taken aback by what they have seen. Warning: The rest of this article contains spoilers about The White Lotus season three As fans will be fully aware, The White Lotus 's dysfunctional Ratliffe family have, among many problems, a slight issue with incest between its siblings, namely brothers Saxon (Patrick Schwarzenegger) and Lochlan (Sam Nivola). After kissing each other in episode six during their raucous night out with Chelsea (Aimee Lou Wood) and Chloe (Charlotte Le Bon) the two brothers wake up naked in the same bed next to each other, with the two having little recollection of what happened. Saxon is later sickened when Chloe tells him that Lochlan became very 'hands-on' with him during an orgy. Speaking to Vanity Fair about the scene, Nivola said: 'It was f***ing insane. I had never even kissed anyone on camera, let alone done a sex scene. So that whole thing was really scary. I was on the phone with Patrick when we both knew we got the roles, and we were talking to each other about how we were going to play it. He said the scene where Chloe says to Saxon 'Your brother jerked you off last night' was in one of his audition sides. And I was like, 'What the f***? What?'' Responding to the revelation, Nivola's father, Alessandro, best known for his roles in The Brutalist, Face/Off and Goal wrote on X/Twitter: ' Hahaha. I hadn't heard this @SamNivola'. Meanwhile, Schwarzenegger has denied that he got his role in The White Lotus because of his Golden Globe-winning father, Arnold Schwarzenegger. 'I know there are people who'll say I only got this role because of who my dad is,' Patrick, 31, told The Sunday Times. 'They're not seeing that I've had 10 years of acting classes, put on [high] school plays every week, worked on my characters for hours on end or the hundreds of rejected auditions I've been on.' He added: 'Of course, it's frustrating and you can get boxed in and you think at that moment, I wish I didn't have my last name. But, that's a small moment. I would never trade my life with anyone. I'm very fortunate to have the life and family that I have, the parents I have and the lessons and values they've instilled in me.'
