Pretty but unremarkable little UK village where Nicolas Cage decided to live

Nicolas Cage has been a Hollywood A-lister for decades, but helium shuns the emblematic personage manner and alternatively resides successful a quiet, mostly unassuming colony successful Somerset

Nicolas Cage, the Hollywood A-lister known for his eclectic roles and aversion to bees, has shunned the emblematic personage hubs of Los Angeles and California for a quieter beingness successful a quaint UK village.

The actor, who is champion known for giving his each successful films specified arsenic The Wicker Man and Kick-Ass, has been a portion of the thriving Baltonsborough, Somerset assemblage for the past 15 years. The Hollywood prima is often seen by locals who person grown accustomed to his presence.

When not shooting porcine classics specified arsenic Pig, Cage finds clip to retreat to his rustic Somerset cottage. Speaking to Absolute Radio during the pandemic, helium expressed his longing to return: "I person a humble small cottage successful Somerset I person been dreaming to get backmost to. With everything we person been contending with it has been truthful difficult. I americium looking guardant to getting backmost to your broadside of the world. Such bully radical successful Somerset."

Despite its tiny colonisation of conscionable 864, Baltonsborough offers a consciousness of assemblage that Cage appreciates. It besides provides high-quality British food. The histrion has antecedently outed himself arsenic a large instrumentality of Cornish pasties, which helium antecedently said are "so delicious and they were the cleanable happening to enactment successful your lunch." Cage is besides partial to food and chips. Many years agone the Face-Off histrion made a sojourn to a section chippie successful Glastonbury - conscionable six miles distant from his UK home.

Speaking to the Mirror recently, George Morey, caput fryer astatine award-winning spot store Knights Fish Restaurant, recalled the Wild astatine Heart actor's visit. He explained: "Many years agone Nicolas Cage came successful and my sister served him and had a photograph taken with him. I deliberation helium ordered astir six pickled eggs and six pickled onions and a fewer gherkins arsenic good truthful he’s a large instrumentality of his pickles obviously."

In 2010 helium was besides spotted picking up food suppers for his household from Whitstones food and spot store successful Shepton Mallet, aft turning connected the Christmas lights successful Bath. At the time, proprietor Mark Swain said: "He came successful arsenic we were closing, but we decided not to crook him away."

Whether it is owed to the inexpensive and plentiful proviso of pickled-goods successful the UK, the spot has intelligibly near its people connected Cage. He precocious told Somerset Life: "I americium a self-confessed Anglophile. I emotion everything astir England; the history, the people, the countryside, the civilization - you sanction it, I emotion it. I emotion seeing places similar Buckingham Palace and each those different fantastic buildings which are steeped successful past and culture. I emotion the full conception of the Royal Family."

On New Year's Eve 2020, determination was rather the disturbance successful Somerset erstwhile Cage popped into the section pub, joining the New Year festivities with locals. This small motion warmed the hearts of residents arsenic 1 astounded pub-goer shared connected Reddit that Cage adjacent splashed retired connected a circular of drinks for everyone.