Look out Britain, Courtney Love is set to make her UK residency even more permanent than it already is.
After spending the last few years holed up in London the Hole frontwoman is finally applying for British citizenship. She confirmed the news at London’s Geographical Society on March 4.
“I’m finally getting my British citizenship in six months,” she said. “I get to be a citizen. I’m applying, man! Can’t get rid of me.”
So, I question, what is the appeal of the UK to a woman who has spent most of her life living under California’s perfect blue skies?
Love ostensibly moved to London in 2019. Lured in by the posh scenery, privacy laws and apparently, Country Life magazine. Love once described the magazine as “real estate porn and fox hunting.” She’d also been planning the move for years, claiming in 2017 that she already knew which neighbourhood she’d settle in and that she “wanted to be on the Thames.”
As for whether this is a politically motivated exile, she didn’t outright say it, but she did take a swipe at Trump’s inner circle. “It’s like emperor-core,” she said. “[They’re] wearing million-dollar watches… Emperor-core is going on at Mar-a-Lago. It’s frightening now. It’s like cyanide now.”
She wouldn’t be the first celebrity to pack up over U.S. politics. Rosie O’Donnell actually followed through on her threat to move and fled to Ireland. Others have talked big but stayed put. Love, on the other hand, is making it official.
And for anyone still holding out hope for a Hole reunion, keep dreaming. She’s been shutting that one down for years. But she is working on a new solo album with some serious names, including R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe and Echo & The Bunnymen’s Will Sergeant.
If all goes to plan, Courtney Love will be officially British by the end of the year. Whether that means she’ll start pronouncing “aluminium” correctly or develop a taste for Marmite remains to be seen, but who knows.
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