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Hugh Laurie Won’t Buy a House in America

Posted by Adam

Tuesday May 19, 2009

Hugh LaurieBritish actor Hugh Laurie admits he’s scared to buy a home in America — in case it gives him bad luck.

Laurie, 49, is convinced his smash hit TV show House will be canceled as soon as he puts down a deposit on a property, so currently rents an apartment in Los Angeles while his wife, Jo — who he has been married to since 1989 — stays in London with their three children, Charlie, 20, Bill, 18, and daughter Rebecca, 15.

“It’s a very difficult thing,” Hugh told a Scottish newspaper. “I constantly marvel at how grown-up my children are, how grown-up they’re being about this.

“I worry about parenting at this sort of distance, but they are being so generous and so cool about it that – I mean, it might be because they’re English, and they won’t reveal their psychological damage until they’re in their late forties.

“I’m just convinced that the day we put down a deposit on a house is the day that we get canceled.

“It’s just inevitable.

“In fact, the first season I was in a hotel for the first three months because I was so convinced that we were going to be gone.

“I didn’t even unpack. I had a half-empty suitcase. I thought it was going to be any day now.

“I have an apartment now and they visit and I go back when I can.

“If we get Thanksgiving off in November, I got four days to go back. I go when I can. There’s just a lot of flying.”

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  • Briana

    Uh, Hugh already bought a house in Hollywood. Duh.

  • LOL

    ROFL EPIC FAIL

  • smass

    Hugh Laurie already bought a house in Los Angeles last year.. so you may have to update your sources!!!!!!

    He has spent last CHRISTMAS with his family and friends in his villa on the hills… cheek ^__^

  • HAHA

    He has already bought a house in the States! God you journalists are ridiculous! You get paid to write utter crap, a monkey with half a brain could do what you do and would infact do it BETTER!

  • smass

    IF YOU CALL THEM JOURNALIST IT’S AN OFFENCE FOR THE real JOURNALISTS… MUAUAUAUAUAUUAUAUA

  • Iwa Iniki

    I thought he already bought a house in the Hollywood Hills. Remember, he was robbed and lost his laptop.

  • tammy

    the entire article sounds word for word of one written a couple years ago! update people!

  • Kathy

    . . .As House would put it “You Idiot”!

  • Jacky

    This is a very old conversation Hugh had around season 2 I think. Since then he purchased a home that sadly was robbed while he and Jo were in residence. He sold that home and has moved to a more ‘quiet neighborhood’ still in Los Angeles. Stephen Fry was a Christmas guest of the Laurie’s and enjoyed one of our wonderful ‘brown-outs’ which prevented the electronic gates from opening so he could go for a stroll, an event he tweeted to his fans about. He was discreet enough not to say exactly where he was, but gave Los Angeles Fry & Laurie fans just enough information. This gives Jo and their kids a place to stay while Hugh is working and the kids are free from school. When Hugh is free he can go home to London. Anything to keep the family together is a very good thing for them all.

  • Karen

    Seems to me everyone that has commented here has MORE reliable information than the “journalist” who put this up. Thank you to all those that commented above me for a great read. As for the “journalist” who posted this outdated article, try googling ‘research’ before you post once more.

  • Mirna

    As our wonderful HOUSE would say…
    YOU ARE A MORON!!!