Where did the love of gardening come from? "I take it quite slowly and then I reap the benefit year by year, which is a wonderful feeling," he once said. ![]() Over lockdown he planted lots of trees and put in bird boxes and bat boxes. "I just think, if it dies, it dies, it’s not supposed to be here and if it survives, I’ll plant more of it." I didn’t go with fancy stuff that you have to keep taking in and out and looking after. " I planted trees, shrubs, plants and flowers that actually do well in my garden. "When we moved to Somerset I left the garden alone for a year, so I saw what grew naturally and what didn’t, and I went with that," he told one interviewer. The word he uses most to describe it is "wild". ![]() When a Grade II listed mansion in Totteridge, north London where he lived with his third wife, Abigail Cruttenden, went on the market for £6 million, it became clear he didn't intend going back to the capital. "We bought the house from a designer called Ken Bolan, and we fell in love with the way he’d created this kind of haven," he told one interviewer. It’s one thing living in a hotel and knowing you’re going to be going home and another thing settling.” Why Somerset?īean is known as a man of few words and when not working he prefers solitary pursuits such as reading, listening to music, playing the piano, welding and sketching.īut the actor, who married fifth wife Ashley Moore in 2017, says his favourite pastime is gardening and he is out there "most days". Sean once lived in the Four Seasons hotel in Los Angeles when he was starring in films like National Treasure and Flightplan with Jodie Foster.īut he told an interviewer: “I don’t think I could ever put down roots there. Sean Bean played Ned Stark in hit series Game of Thrones (Image: Handout) Why not Hollywood? “I thought ‘F*** me, I’ve had enough of all this." “I wanted to put a roof terrace up for wildlife: they got together, having wine parties talking about how they were going to stop me," he added. ![]() ![]() They divorced in 2010 and Sean told The Times his neighbours “went to solicitors” about his pet chickens in the garden. So why did Sean move from London?Īccording to the 62-year-old it was because he had been driven out of his home in Belsize Park that he once shared fourth wife Georgina Sutcliffe by neighbours “who objected to everything”. READ MORE: The Somerset villages that are a hotbed for celebritiesĪnd by the sounds of it, any fans hoping to bump into the five-times married, Sharpe actor might be better hanging around local garden centres than the Somerset celebrity set. The rumours about him moving here turned out to be true and over the last six years, Bean has given several interviews in which he has revealed why he moved to Somerset and how he has finally found peace in the county. Rumours started swirling after diners at The Wagtail pub spotted the Lord of the Rings star amid reports he was looking at a property in the county. When fans saw Game of Thrones star Sean Bean near Wincanton, it was hard to believe that the man once named the second greatest Yorkshireman that ever lived was moving to genteel Somerset.
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