Burn Notice alum Jeffrey Donovan is opening up about his decision to leave Hollywood for Colorado.
The 57-year-old actor wed Colorado native Michelle Woods in 2012 and said they are happily raising their three children in the state.
“I met my future wife while I was finishing a job, and she was from Colorado, and once I started visiting there, I never stopped,” Donovan told Fox News Digital earlier this month. “It’s an incredible state, and I’m raising my children there, and we’re never leaving.”
Donovan and Woods share three children: Claire, Lucas and Ethan. According to the actor, raising his children in Colorado is much easier than having kids in Los Angeles.
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“I find it less challenging in Colorado, which plays to my talent level of raising kids,” Donovan said. “If it’s not hard raising kids in Colorado, then that’s where I wanna be.”
The Sicario star continued to gush about his adopted home state, saying, “Colorado, secretly, is the sunshine state. It’s a beautiful part of the country that gets more sunshine than maybe even Arizona and New Mexico. It’s incredible. So that’s why we’re there. And it’s really healthy living.”
Donovan isn’t the only star to ditch Los Angeles for a quieter life elsewhere.
“L.A. was wild at the time,” Smallville star Tom Welling said of moving to North Carolina after the COVID-19 pandemic. “There were no cars on the street, you couldn’t go anywhere. People weren’t leaving their homes. Our first son was starting to crawl and we only had this tiny deck for him to play on. There was this thought of, ‘We don’t know if we can be here anymore.’”
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Welling added, “We have American sport horses, jumpers, and we breed. I’m more than happy to help, but [my wife] is the captain of that ship. It’s peaceful. And it feels real.”
Modern Family’s Ty Burrell shared last year that he had given up Los Angeles for Utah.
“It’s just been spectacular,” he said of his new life in Salt Lake City. “We moved here right after [Modern Family] ended, and I don’t have any regrets. It’s been lovely and a great place to raise the kids.”
Burrell’s on-screen daughter Ariel Winter also ditched Hollywood for a quieter pace of life.
“I just left the city of L.A. It holds some not-great memories for me, and I’m young and never lived anywhere else and thought, ‘Why not?’” she said. “If you’re no longer on a network show that shoots there, you don’t really have to be there, and if I get a network show, I can easily go back.”
