On November 6 it was announced that Donald Trump had officially won the election and was once again the President of the United States.
The news was shocking and upsetting for many celebrities who had been vocal about their support for the Democratic party and endorsed Kamala Harris.
For some, the news has been an alarm bell, signalling that it’s time to move from the US and settle somewhere else, with some citing Roe v Wade’s overturning and gun violence and reasons behind their move.
Several A-listers have claimed that they would move if Trump came to power, and some have already made a move across the pond to the UK.
It has now been reported that the election results influenced Ellen Degeneres and Portia de Rossi’s recent move to the UK.
The Wrap reported that the couple has ditched their life in Montecito and set themselves up in the Cotswolds, telling friends that Trump coming to power was the ‘primary motivation’ and that they planned to ‘never return’ to the US.
Ellen and Portia aren’t alone in this decision, here are some of the other famous faces who have ditched the US in favour of the UK.
America Ferrera
America, 40, her husband Ryan Piers Williams, their son Sebastian, six, and daughter Lucia, four have all relocated to the UK.
‘America is sick that Donald Trump is President again,’ an insider told Daily Mail. ‘She is devastated that Kamala lost. She thought the country she lived in was better than that.’
‘She is going to continue to have a presence in the US for work purposes and to fight for Latinas and women, but she will be overseas for family and to benefit her kids’ education,’ they said.
The source explained that the actor wants her children to have ‘the best opportunities’ but isn’t ‘abandoning the US.
‘She’s not abandoning the US, she is prioritizing her life and focusing on the importance for her kids,’ the source concluded.
Cher
In an interview with The Guardian in 2023, the iconic singer revealed that her health suffered the last time Trump ran for president and said she may have to leave the country if he gets in.
‘I almost got an ulcer the last time,’ she said. ‘If he gets in, who knows? This time I will leave [the country].’
Minnie Driver
Minnie, 54, lived in the US for several decades in California, in an interview with The Times she was asked if she could live in the US again if Trump were reelected.
‘If I lived in a red [Republican] state, no, I couldn’t,’ she said. ‘But living in California, you are somewhat insulated. But do you want to go and live in a bubble? Do you run away from the fire or do you go back and help?’
She added that she was more ‘hopeful’ about the UK: ‘And I am more hopeful. For all the division in the UK, there just seems to be a more robust connection between us.
‘We have this discourse. We talk about it and we laugh about it. We don’t pull out guns and shoot each other about it.’
Sophie Turner
Sophie Turner, 28, told Harper’s Bazaar last month that she was moved back to the UK because she felt unsafe in the US.
‘The gun violence, Roe v Wade being overturned… Everything just kind of piled on. After the Uvalde [school] shooting, I knew it was time to get the f**k out of there.’
The actress shares two children Willa, born in 2020 and Delphine, born in 2022, with her ex-husband Joe Jonas.
Sophie is yet another celeb joining the hordes of other actors and singers who have packed their bags and ditched the US because of the political landscape.
She hasn’t moved to the UK but Irish-American actress Saoirse Ronan moved to Cork, Ireland with her husband Jack Lowden recently and admitted she’s scared when she’s in the US.
In a recent conversation with the Variety Awards Circuit podcast, she explained: ‘I don’t feel safe here anymore. I go into a cinema here when I’m doing a Q&A to promote a movie that I’m in and I’m not sure if someone’s going to pull a gun out.’
She added: ‘It’s in your head. That’s an awful feeling. It’s an awful feeling for me to know that my best friends who have just started to have children aren’t feeling 100 per cent safe about sending their kids to school in case they get shot at five years old.
‘There are friends of mine who are thinking about buying bulletproof backpacks for their children to keep them safe. That’s barbaric and he [Donald Trump] has done this.’
Cat Deeley and her family meanwhile moved to the UK a few years ago, after living in the States for over 14 years with their children.
She told Lorraine Kelly in 2020 that an LA shooting in a shopping mall inspired the move: ‘The catalyst for it was definitely a moment when Paddy [her husband] called me and him and Milo were stuck in a shopping mall there.
‘I had to go and pick them up and I didn’t know quite where they were. There were helicopters and police vans and news crews, it was terrifying for me. Everybody was safe and fine, but it was terrifying for me.’
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