Are luvvie Fry and his hubby decamping to LA for good?
Has stephen Fry, the darling of the liberal luvvies, turned his back on Britain for good?
The 59-year- old comedian, actor, presenter and writer has revealed his addiction to Los angeles, where he moved 18 months ago with his husband Elliott spencer, 29.
‘I really love it, my husband loves it, too,’ he gushes.
‘It’s an unusual city, a lot of people sneer at it — it is called La La Land after the supposedly air-headed, vapid nature of the place.
‘If you forgive La for not being like Berlin or London or New York, but realise it is not trying to be those places either, then you discover its joys.
‘It has these different identities that create this extraordinary urban
character that’s unlike any other city in the world.’
when Fry bought his £1.8 million home in Hollywood Hills in 2015, he was quick to quash reports that he was planning to quit the uK for ever, after his friend actress emma Thompson called Britain a ‘cakefilled, misery-laden, grey old island’. He said he ‘had no plans at all to swap the uK for the u.s.’.
However, it seems Fry might have warmed to the idea of a more permanent exile and, apart from presenting last month’s Baftas, he has seldom been seen back in Blighty.
It might explain his almost Trappist silence on Donald Trump. The former QI presenter used to be outspoken in his criticsm of the tycoon and once attacked him for his ‘ poisonously atrocious taste, false glamour, shallow grandeur [and] cynical vulgarity’. And after a visit to one of of his gaudy properties in 2009, Fry declared that he hoped ‘ never to hear Trump’s name again’.
curiously, although he made a sly joke at Trump’s expense at the Baftas, he has been careful not to openly criticise the President since he won the u.s. election.
Fry is said to be desperate to emulate his old comedy partner Hugh Laurie’s success in the hospital drama House with a new cBs sitcom he’s starring in called The Great Indoors. He is thought not to want to alienate any potential viewers or republican-supporting studio execs.