When Ali G made him an international celebrity, Hampstead Garden Suburb’s Sacha Baron Cohen did what all ambitious celebs did and upped sticks for LA. But now, I can reveal, the A-list comic genius is returning home.
The star and his equally fabulous wife Isla Fisher, who converted to Judaism before they married in 2010, are house hunting in the UK.
The pair actually left LA for Australia, where Isla, whose family originally were Scottish, grew up, in 2020 - inspired partly by the changes they had seen in the USA during the Trump years. They saw out Covid in Australia – moving first to Sydney and then Perth where Isla’s family still live and Isla spoke last year about an idyllic life of beaches and barbeques.
‘I’m the happiest when I’m home,’ she said. ‘I miss it when I’m not here. I don’t feel any pressure when I’m in Australia. I don’t have to say or do or be anything. I mean, I don’t even have to wear shoes.’
