Ellen DeGeneres could encounter some acquainted faces after making the English countryside her new residence.
A supply advised PEOPLE on Thursday that the previous discuss present host and comic, 66, has relocated to the U.Okay. from Southern California within the final couple of months.
“Ellen was in England home searching at first of October. She ended up discovering a home that she liked and bought it shortly after,” the insider mentioned.
Earlier this month, DeGeneres and her spouse, Portia de Rossi, have been noticed letting free at a pub known as The Farmer’s Canine within the Cotswolds, a swath of the English countryside identified for its rolling hills, historic structure and quaint villages.
The scenic space reaches throughout six counties – Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire, in addition to some components of Somerset, Worcestershire, Warwickshire and Wiltshire – and its idyllic nature has impressed a variety of celebrities to make it their residence.
David and Victoria Beckham
The married energy couple of 25 years bought their Cotswolds residence, positioned close to the celebrity-loved Soho Farmhouse, for a reported $7.7 million in December 2016, in accordance with House Beautiful.
They reportedly renovated the sprawling property after buying it, and the property now features a backyard, pool, sauna, soccer pitch, spa and treehouse, per the outlet.
The previous soccer star filmed a number of scenes at their nation residence for the 2023 Netflix documentary Beckham. Within the restricted collection, he opened up in regards to the serene location and defined why they bought their residence.
“I wished a spot the place we may escape. As quickly as I get into the countryside, I usually get into my complete nation getup. And I’ve bought a stick, and I stroll round,” he says through the episode as he travels by means of his lush yard. “I sit out right here, have a cup of espresso.”
In a scene of David sitting down at a desk and his “favourite view of the home,” he cheekily jokes, “I also can see Victoria if she’s bare within the prime window.”
Additionally within the documentary, David reveals off the property’s soccer pitch in addition to their bee farm within the opening scene. Each David and Victoria have shared an inside take a look at their beekeeping activities on social media, with David most just lately providing a peek at their residence farm and hen coup in an Instagram Reel earlier in November.
In an interview with British Vogue again in 2018, the couple — who share kids Brooklyn, 25, Romeo, 22, Cruz, 19, and Harper, 13 — advised the outlet that a few of their favourite actions to do as a household embody “horse driving, pizza-making or fishing on their Cotswolds property.”
Kate Moss
The British supermodel opened up about her Cotswolds residence positioned in west Oxfordshire throughout an interview with The Times in 2023.
She revealed that she actually leans into the nation life by being in mattress by 11 p.m. most nights, “moonbathing” on her property, and “charging” her crystals exterior in her backyard. She additionally enjoys “wild swimming” the place she goes “in a secret place, in the midst of a lot of fields and solely the villagers are allowed to make use of it,” she advised the outlet.
Earlier in 2021, Moss provided a glance inside the toilet at her historic Grade II-listed residence, sharing with The Times that “my toilet within the nation is my favourite toilet on this planet. It’s my haven.”
Pictures of the spacious room present a freestanding clawfoot bathtub, double vanities, twin sinks and a leather-based sofa subsequent to what seems to be the bathroom.
Additionally at her property, she enjoys rising her personal greens comparable to potatoes, tomatoes, onions, garlic, and lettuce after which utilizing them to prepare dinner Sunday lunch for her 22-year-old daughter Lila, whom she shares with ex-boyfriend Jefferson Hack.
Damien Hirst
The acclaimed artist bought his Nineteenth-century Gloucestershire residence, Toddington Manor, in 2005 for $3.8 million, in accordance with The Guardian. Hirst was reportedly planning to revive the property and switch it into his household residence outfitted with a non-public artwork gallery for his work.
Nonetheless, his unfinished renovation plans reportedly acquired some backlash from locals after it was left sitting for years with none progress.
“It is without doubt one of the largest eyesores within the space. Persons are fed up with it. Damien Hirst has had this property for 17 years now, however it’s nonetheless clad in scaffolding and tarpaulin, and so far as we are able to inform there isn’t a restoration in sight,” former Toddington Parish Council chairman Nigel Parker advised the outlet on the time.
Toddington Manor is at present listed on Historic England’s “Heritage at Risk” register. Per the itemizing, the house was “mothballed” for years earlier than a brand new proprietor, Hirst, bought it.
“The home was mothballed for greater than 15 years, however has been bought by a brand new proprietor who engaged in an in depth programme of pressing works and repairs in session with the Native Planning Authority and Historic England,” the itemizing states.
Extra Well-known Faces
Former British Prime Minister David Cameron and English TV presenter and journalist Jeremy Clarkson reportedly stay in neighboring villages in Oxfordshire, in accordance with The Guardian. Clarkson has shared an inside take a look at the fact of farm life at his Cotswolds property in his Amazon Prime collection Clarkson’s Farm.
British actress and mannequin Elizabeth Hurley additionally had a house within the Cotswolds till she reportedly offered it for $11.3 million to maneuver to the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire, per Gloucestershire Live.
Alex James, bassist for the British rock band Blur, owns a Cotswolds property, the place he hosts an annual meals and music celebration known as Big Feastival.
Moreover, King Charles’s property Highgrove Home is positioned in Gloucestershire.