By Michaela Gordoni
Danica McKellar is one of the many Hollywood stars who’ve ditched LA for Tennessee.
“I don’t know, California and Los Angeles didn’t feel like it used to for us, and I wanted to be closer to Draco so he didn’t have to be flying so far, and so I liked Tennessee,” she told the “Hey Dude…The 90s Called!” podcast.
Her son, Draco, would fly between LA and Florida, where his dad lives.
“We came to Tennessee and loved it, found this great house and, yeah, were ready for a change. I lived in Los Angeles for 40 years,” McKellar explained.
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She’s happy to be surrounded by “more nature. We wanted to be surrounded by more green,” she shared.
“I have a lot of friends that moved, you know, Melissa [Joan Hart] has been in Tennessee for a long time, my good friend [screenwriter and director] Doug Ellin just all of a sudden up and moved to Nashville, I mean, a lot of people from LA,” said the podcast co-host David Lascher.
“A lot of people live out here now,” she said, “cause we also learned during COVID that you don’t really have to be in one particular place for jobs.”
The other podcast host, Christine Taylor, who’s married to actor Ben Stiller, said, “We moved out of LA when our kids were really young and that was a deliberate choice because we sort of felt the older they get, the more we’re not going to want to pull them from their friends. It was still challenging when they were 8 and 5 to do it. But it was the right decision for our family.”
McKellar told Fox News in 2023, “Tennessee is a total quality of life improvement. It’s gorgeous. I love the seasons. I grew up in Southern California, and I love LA, and I love California. But I have to say, the seasons are really something else. I love watching the leaves change colors, and I love it when it gets cold. And I love when it’s really hot, humid.”
“My husband and I have been wanting more nature for a long time,” she told PEOPLE after her move in 2022. “We were kind of ready to not be in a city anymore.”
“It feels like you’re not in the middle of all the hustle and bustle,” she said. “When I drive to get my car serviced, there aren’t people honking. It’s just this beautiful country road. Having [your] surroundings be more peaceful, I think it’s just wonderful for your whole mind-body connection.”
Stars ditching Hollywood for a simpler life doesn’t seem like a trend that’ll end anytime soon.
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