Courtney Love has revealed she’s becoming a British citizen, because of ‘frightening’ Donald Trump’s return to the White House.
The singer, 60, has joined a huge list of stars fleeing the US in a desperate bid to escape life under Trump.
Celebrities including Ellen DeGeneres and her wife Portia de Rossi, designer Tom Ford, Ryan Gosling and his wife Eva Mendes are among those who have fled America for the UK.
Other high-profile stars including actress America Ferrera are rumoured to have relocated to the UK, with Eva Longoria having relocated to Spain.
Courtney, who was married to Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain from 1992 until his suicide in 1994, says she’s looking to permanently relocate in the UK due to her dissatisfaction with the Trump administration in the US.
Speaking at the Royal Geographical Society in London, she said: ‘I’m really glad I’m here.
Courtney Love, 60, has revealed she’s becoming a British citizen, because of ‘frightening’ Donald Trump ’s return to the White House
The singer has joined a huge list of stars fleeing the US in a desperate bid to escape life under Trump (pictured in 2023)
Celebrities including Ellen DeGeneres and her wife Portia de Rossi, designer Tom Ford, Ryan Gosling and his wife Eva Mendes are among those who have fled America for the UK
Left-wing celebrities who were devastated by Donald Trump’s landslide election victory have pledged to flee America in order to give their families a better life
‘It’s so great to live here. I’m finally getting my British citizenship in six months. I get to be a citizen – I’m applying, man! Can’t get rid of me!’
The remarks drew rapturous applause from the London audience.
Courtney went on to criticize the US President and his inner circle, admitting: ‘In terms of Trump, and particularly this group… it’s like emperor-core – like, [they’re] wearing million-dollar watches.
‘Emperor-core is going on at Mar-a-Lago. It’s frightening now. It’s like cyanide now.’
Courtney, who has a 32-year-old daughter, Frances Cobain, with Kurt, has been living in London for several years, having moved to the capital from Los Angeles in 2019.
Courtney has been vocal of her love of London for some time, saying in 2017: ‘I know I’m going to end up there.
‘I know what neighbourhood I’m going to end up in, and I know that I want to be on the Thames. I subscribe to this magazine called Country Life, which is just real-estate porn and fox hunting. It’s amazing.’
She is not the first celebrity to move to the UK since the reelection of Trump, with the woke stars being dubbed the ‘Donald Dashers’.
The California-born singer says she’s looking to permanently relocate in the UK due to her dissatisfaction with the Trump administration in the US
Speaking at the Royal Geographical Society in London, she said: ‘I’m really glad I’m here. ‘It’s so great to live here’
She added: ‘I’m finally getting my British citizenship in six months. I get to be a citizen – I’m applying, man! Can’t get rid of me!’
The California-born singer was married to Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain from 1992 until his suicide in 1994 (pictured together)
Courtney, who has a 32-year-old daughter, Frances Cobain, with Kurt, has been living in London for several years, having moved to the capital from LA in 2019 (pictured together in 2017)
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The so-called ‘Donald Dash’ has been backed up by Home Office figures this week which revealed that applications for UK citizenship soared in the last quarter of 2024, rising 40 per cent year on year.
In fact more than 6,100 US citizens applied last year, the most since records began two decades ago and 26 per cent more than in 2023.
Ellen DeGeneres and her wife Portia de Rossi put their California mansion up for sale after the election results came in and kickstarted their ‘retirement’ in the UK, with sources alleging the ‘US doesn’t like her because of her sexual preferences’.
Eva Mendes and Ryan Gosling were already living in the UK and are now planning to stay put, a sentiment echoed by British-American actress Minnie Driver, who returned to London after nearly three decades of living in Los Angeles.
Ugly Betty star America was allegedly spotted checking out schools in west London – after saying she wanted to leave the US when Trump was elected.
One Notting Hill estate agent, who revealed the amount of wealthy American families they are moving in has ‘skyrocketed’ since Trump, told : ‘We moved a Marvel actress into a house very near here in the last week.’
Eva Longoria, a Texas native who has been living abroad for work, is taking permanent residency in Mexico and Spain with her husband and son in order to ‘escape’ her ‘dystopian’ homeland.
Eva Longoria and her producer husband José Bastón, a native of Mexico, have been living abroad with their six-year-old son Santiago while she works on her CNN miniseries Searching for Spain. The family are pictured together in Marbella, Spain in July 2022
The actress, who campaigned for Kamala Harris, said she relocated to Europe due to her work commitments and insisted that the move was not politically motivated
Ellen DeGeneres ditched the US for the UK to kick off her ‘retirement’ with wife Portia de Rossi, pictured together in March 2022, after her career was tarnished by accusations about toxic behavior on her talk show
America Ferrera is planning to relocate across the pond with her husband, Ryan Piers Williams, and their children (pictured at the Barbie premiere in LA last year)
Eva Mendes, 54, moved to her native Britain with her Canadian husband Ryan Gosling, pictured with Mendes, after nearly three decades of living in Los Angeles
Courtney is an singer, songwriter, and actress best known as the frontwoman of the rock band Hole, which gained fame in the 1990s with albums like ‘Live Through This‘ (1994) and ‘Celebrity Skin‘ (1998).
At the event, Love also addressed rumors about a potential reunion of Hole which she firmly dismissed, stating that there are no plans for the band to reunite at this time.
A highlight of the evening was Love’s surprise performance of Dylan’s classic ‘Like A Rolling Stone‘, accompanied by an acoustic guitarist.