Loads of folks dream of shifting to the US, however loads of individuals who dwell right here additionally dream of leaving it.
Listed here are 18 celebs who moved out of the US and why:
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Rosie O’Donnell relocated to Eire. In a 2025 TikTok video, she stated, “I am right here in Eire, and it is lovely and heat — not bodily, it is truly fairly chilly. Moved right here on January fifteenth, and it has been fairly fantastic, I’ve to say. The persons are so loving and so type, so welcoming, and I am very grateful. I am within the means of getting my Irish citizenship, as I’ve Irish grandparents, and that is what is going on on…I used to be by no means somebody who thought I might transfer to a different nation, that is what I made a decision can be the perfect for myself and my 12-year-old youngster. And right here we’re…”
“You realize, I am pleased. Clay is pleased. I miss my different children. I miss my pals. I miss many issues about life there at house, and I am looking for a house right here on this lovely nation. And when, , it’s protected for all residents to have equal rights there in America, that is after we will think about coming again. It has been heartbreaking to see what’s occurring politically and arduous for me personally as properly. The private is political, as everyone knows,” she stated.
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In 2025, Richard Gere and his household moved to Spain, which is the place his spouse, Alejandra Gere, is from. He instructed Elle España, “The reality is, you are seeing us in our second. We’re happier than ever. She’s pleased as a result of she’s at house, and I am pleased as a result of if she’s pleased, I am pleased.”
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Throughout her marriage to Joe Jonas, Sophie Turner lived in LA and Miami, however she was homesick for the UK. After their divorce, she returned to London. She instructed Harper’s Bazaar UK, “The gun violence, Roe v. Wade being overturned… The whole lot simply sort of piled on. After the Uvalde [school] capturing, I knew it was time to get the fuck out of there. I am so pleased to be again. I by no means really feel like myself once I’m not in London.”
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In 2024, Individuals reported that Ellen DeGeneres fell in love with a home within the Cotswolds within the UK and moved there along with her spouse, Portia de Rossi. Per sources that spoke to The Wrap and TMZ, the couple reportedly moved overseas following the outcomes of the 2024 presidential election.
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In 2024, Eva Longoria instructed Marie Claire that she and her household have been splitting their time between Spain [where she often works] and Mexico [where her husband, José Bastón, is from] for the previous couple of years. She stated, “I had my complete grownup life right here. However even earlier than [the pandemic], it was altering. The vibe was totally different. After which COVID occurred, and it pushed it over the sting. Whether or not it’s the homelessness or the taxes, not that I need to shit on California — it simply seems like this chapter in my life is finished now…I am privileged. I get to flee and go someplace. Most People aren’t so fortunate. They’ll be caught on this dystopian nation, and my anxiousness and unhappiness is for them.”
Her feedback led to on-line hypothesis that she’d moved out of the US due to the 2024 election. So, to set the file straight, Eva referred to as into her good friend Ana Navarro’s podcast The View: Behind the Desk. She requested Ana, “Will you please allow them to know I did not transfer out of Spain, I imply the US, due to Trump?”
Then, Eva added, “I have been in Europe working for nearly three years. By the way in which, the article says that. Individuals simply grabbed some clickbait stuff to be divisive, which makes me so unhappy, . The whole lot you say is simply meant to be divisive after we cannot be that method proper now…I didn’t go away due to the political atmosphere. I left as a result of my work took me there.”
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In 2025, Gabriel Macht revealed that he and his household left the US someday after Fits ended a number of years prior. He instructed Individuals, “I do not inform anyone the place I dwell as a result of I prefer to preserve that beneath wraps. I bought out of city, and we’re exploring the world.”
He later instructed E! Information, “I need to see how the world seems in numerous folks’s eyes. I need to see totally different views. I need to be taught from others. I need to see historical past and tradition and character in other places on the earth. I really feel like, why not? In case you have the chance, it is a good way to boost children.” He additionally stated he enjoys the “anonymity” and “slower tempo” in his new locale, including, “I really like having the ability to take good walks. It helps to put on a hat.”
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In 2025, actor Shaun Majumder left LA and moved again to Canada together with his household. Slightly than return house to Newfoundland, they settled in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He instructed CBC, “Have you ever been watching the information? Have you ever seen what is going on on? I ran out of a burning constructing with my kids beneath my arm and my spouse on my again. I am like, get me out of right here, that is loopy! You realize, we have been sort of, like, mulling over a giant change during the last six to eight months, to be trustworthy. Having two younger children, residing in Los Angeles, is a very totally different expertise than shifting down there as a brilliant enthusiastic whippersnapper actor. However, , throughout COVID, we had two youngsters, and that modified our lives perpetually. We truly went again to Newfoundland; it is sort of the place we hunkered down. It simply seems like the proper storm.”
He additionally stated, “We additionally knew that the tides had been turning on the political panorama in America. We knew an election was developing, and I stated to my spouse, ‘Shelby, if Trump wins, I do not know. I’ve a sense that that is going to be the kicker to get me to go. I feel I have to go.’ We went by the election. We went to our household’s place in Florida for Christmas. We got here again to LA. The town was on fireplace. Trump was now president, whether or not you want him or not. The nation was sort of changing into extra chaotic. And we had been similar to, oh, yeah, if the universe wasn’t screaming at us proper now to get out of right here, then that is positively a kicker. And I do most of my work in Canada, so it simply is sensible for us to be up right here.”
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Throughout her relationship with soccer participant Adil Rami, Pamela Anderson moved to Provence, France as a result of he performed for Marseille. On the time, she instructed Web-A-Porter, “I fell in love with Saint-Tropez 20 years in the past, once I did a photoshoot for Playboy. It was at all times my plan to return and dwell right here when the youngsters had been grown up. Everyone seems to be so lovely right here. Possibly it’s the sunshine, very wholesome and golden.”
Then, in 2020, at first of the coronavirus pandemic, Pamela returned house to Vancouver Island, British Columbia along with her two grownup sons, bought and renovated her grandma’s motel, and started engaged on her grandpa’s backyard. She instructed Higher Houses & Gardens, “Just a few years again, I sort of gave up in some unspecified time in the future and wanted a change. I believed, ‘Properly, I assume that is simply what folks consider me.’ I used to be not in an excellent area once I moved again to Canada. I do not know what occurred over the previous couple of many years, however I really feel now to this point faraway from the picture of who I used to be. I felt very unhappy and lonely.”
“I did not really feel simply misunderstood; I felt like I had actually screwed up, that my complete life was a bundle of errors. I used to be arduous on myself, and I believed I put my household by loads and put my children by a lot. I got here to a degree the place I made a decision to maneuver house and disappear and get into my backyard. And once I began constructing the backyard, it was actually like a metaphor of placing my life again collectively. I started planting seeds, and the smallest issues grew to become actually profound,” she stated.
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After residing in Hollywood for 20 years, comic Tom Inexperienced moved house to Ontario, Canada in 2021. He lives on a 150-acre farm. He instructed the New York Instances, “I am not likely a Hollywood man. I began to really feel like I wasn’t being true to my genuine self.”
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Janet Jackson has lived in London, UK since about 2016. In accordance with the Guardian, she stayed within the metropolis after her 2017 divorce from billionaire Wissam Al Mana, who’s from Qatar however lives in London, as a result of they co-parent their son, Eissa. She instructed the outlet, “Crucial factor I’ve carried out, the most important factor I’ve carried out, is develop into a mom, and it is had an attractive affect on my life. I needed to have three youngsters however thought, ‘I ought to cease there; that is in all probability all I can deal with.’ As a result of you must give all of your self, you must unfold the love, and I would not need any of them to really feel not noted if I had three. Clearly, you must work, however you do not come first anymore. Your life utterly modifications. And I would not commerce it for something.”
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Lily Collins and her husband, Charlie McDowell, relocated to Copenhagen, Denmark in 2023. The couple honeymooned in Denmark in 2021, and so they co-own the media manufacturing and actual property firm Case Research Copenhagen.
Lily instructed Elle Denmark, “Life right here is simply so fantastic and so calm and vivid. And what I really like a lot is that there is a lot coloration and, but, it is so calm. I really like having the ability to bike all over the place. And it seems like a giant metropolis but in addition very intimate, and everyone seems to be so good.”
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Lindsay Lohan and her household dwell in Dubai. She relocated to the UAE in 2014. In accordance with Cosmopolitan, she moved to Dubai as a result of paparazzi are unlawful.
In 2024, she instructed Flaunt, “It’s nonetheless a metropolis. So it’s fairly related. I imply, I do something that anybody else does of their each day life. I’m up with my son within the mornings, I do breakfast with him, go to my pilates, come house for lunch, and go to the park, the identical issues that any regular mother would do of their each day life. Otherwise you would do in LA. I feel the one distinction is the time zone shift. There’s a giant disconnect between when work begins for me and different locations. I can do my work calls with New York at like three or 4, round this time, after which LA picks up later.”
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In 1995, Tina Turner moved to Switzerland with Erwin Bach, her then-boyfriend (and later husband). In 1997, she instructed CNN, “I’ve left America as a result of my success was in a foreign country, and my boyfriend was in a foreign country.”
She additionally stated she was “as huge as Madonna” in Europe. She stated, “I went to England for a few years, after which I met a person, and I lived three years with him in his nation, in Germany. Then I purchased a home, within the meantime, within the south of France, and I began to rebuild that, so I am out and in of there. That is not a spot I can go typically. [Home is] Zurich. As a result of my boyfriend was moved there to run the corporate, and I at all times needed to go to Switzerland, and I used to be very pleased.”
In 2013, Tina married Erwin and have become a Swiss citizen.
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In a 2024 Instagram video, Britney Spears shared that she moved to Mexico due to the “extraordinarily imply and merciless” remedy she’d confronted from paparazzi. She stated, “It actually sort of hurts my emotions that the paparazzi make my face appear like I am sporting, like, a white Jason masks. It does not even appear like me. They’ve at all times been extremely merciless to me, the paparazzi and photos and the way in which they’ve illustrated me to be in a few of it.”
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In 2021, George Clooney reportedly moved to Brignoles, Provence, France together with his spouse, Amal Clooney, and their youngsters. He and his spouse, Amal Clooney, reportedly need to have a “peaceable life” and lift their youngsters primarily in France.
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In 2023, Christina Milian and her household moved to France, the place her husband, singer M. Pokora, is from. She instructed the Jennifer Hudson Present, “My husband is French, and we have been collectively for over seven or eight years, and for, like, the final three or 4 years, we had been commuting forwards and backwards each six months. After which we determined to decide to it final 12 months as a result of our children had been going to go to high school.”
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Josh Hartnett and his spouse, Tamsin Egerton, lived between the US and the UK (her house nation) for years however spent lockdown within the UK. Then, after they had been anticipating their third youngster, they determined to remain in Hampshire for good. In 2024, he instructed the Guardian that in NYC or LA, “folks solely need to discuss your profession,” however he prefers how, in Hampshire, “no person cares.” He additionally stated that, as a result of he is on a wedding visa, he is solely allowed to depart the UK for work for 180 days out of the 12 months, giving him time to make about one film. He is tremendous with that and enjoys attending to spend extra time together with his children whereas they’re rising up.
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And at last, Michael Sheen moved from LA again house to Port Talbot, Wales in 2018. He first started contemplating relocation seven years prior when he performed Jesus in an area three-day-long theatrical efficiency of the Ardour alongside residents who had been coping with the growing price of residing and job losses.
He instructed the Sunday Instances, “When you develop into conscious of difficulties within the space you come from, you do not have to do something. You’ll be able to dwell some other place, go to household at Christmas, and switch a blind eye to injustice. It does not make you a nasty individual, however I might seen one thing I could not unsee. I needed to apply myself, and I won’t have the affect I might like, however the one factor that I can say is that I am doing stuff. I do know I’m — I am paying for it!”
