{"id":1717072,"date":"2022-10-30T06:30:19","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T10:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1717072"},"modified":"2022-10-30T10:19:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-30T14:19:38","slug":"crocodile-dundee-actor-paul-hogan-opens-up-about-why-he-cant-move-back-to-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/crocodile-dundee-actor-paul-hogan-opens-up-about-why-he-cant-move-back-to-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cCrocodile Dundee\u201d Actor Paul Hogan Opens up About Why He Can\u2019t Move Back to Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcrocodile-dundee-actor-paul-hogan-opens-up-about-why-he-cant-move-back-to-australia%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1717072&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Paul Hogan has \u2013 for years now \u2013 been talking about how homesick he is.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian actor, 83, has been living in the US for more than two decades, making headlines more recently for his disdain for the Venice Beach neighborhood he lives in.<\/p>\n<p>But now he\u2019s revealed why he hasn\u2019t yet made the move back to Australia in a candid interview with\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailytelegraph.com.au\/lifestyle\/sydney-weekend\/homesick-paul-hogan-counts-down-days-till-he-returns-to-australia-for-good\/news-story\/d3bbeb60083b2b5197b322aa9fe68407\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Daily Telegraph<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The<em>\u00a0Crocodile Dundee<\/em>\u00a0legend said his 24-year-old son, Chance Hogan, whom he shares with ex-wife, actress Linda Kozlowski, was the sole reason he\u2019s still residing in the US.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been homesick for years,\u201d he told the publication.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI miss the people, the ambiance \u2013 and there\u2019s something you just can\u2019t put your finger on, but there\u2019s something about Australia that is friendlier and more laid-back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d rather be there, but I have my last child [Chance] who is an American \u2013 he only has me, whereas my tribe at home, they\u2019ve all got each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/hogan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/hogan.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski and son Chance attend the 2013 G&#039;Day USA Black Tie Gala on January 12, 2013\" class=\"wp-image-24450698\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/hogan.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/hogan.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/hogan.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski and son Chance attend the 2013 G\u2019Day USA Black Tie Gala on January 12, 2013.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">WireImage<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hogan and Kozlowski, who played Hogan\u2019s onscreen love interest in\u00a0<em>Crocodile Dundee<\/em>, moved to the US in the \u201890s, shortly before Kozlowski\u2019s mother died of cancer. The pair divorced in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen the years have slipped by, and I\u2019m sort of stuck here,\u201d Hogan added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve got 10 grandchildren and they are all adults \u2013 but for Chance, the only family he\u2019s got is me. All his friends, his band, musician mates, girlfriends, everything \u2013 they\u2019re all American.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I\u2019m hanging in there a bit longer, but eventually I\u2019ll get back.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/paul-hogan-816.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/paul-hogan-816.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Hogan performs in a scene on the set of the film \" Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles \/><\/a><figcaption>Paul Hogan starred in \u201cCrocodile Dundee in Los Angeles\u201d in 2001.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hogan previously spoke of being \u201chomesick\u201d in a\u00a0<em>Sunrise<\/em>\u00a0interview in May last year, saying he\u2019d barely left his $4.5 million home in Venice Beach amid the pandemic and a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/28\/homeless-los-angeles-man-builds-wooden-house-on-hollywood-boulevard-sidewalk\/\">rise in homelessness<\/a> and crime in the area.<\/p>\n<p>The usually upbeat Aussie star appeared out of sorts during his interview with co-host David Koch, who noted that Hogan, a regular guest on the show, was the \u201cmost down\u201d he\u2019d ever seen him.<\/p>\n<p>Hogan went on to say he was unhappy in LA but refused to return to Australia while <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/08\/09\/nyu-student-flees-covid-lockdowns-in-shanghai-trapped-in-hainan\/\">strict hotel quarantine<\/a> was in place.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThe crime\u2019s up. I don\u2019t go anywhere. The minute I can come home without being locked in a hotel for two weeks, I\u2019m back,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>That same month, Hogan was seen penning a letter to the homeless that he reportedly put outside his property.<\/p>\n<p>According to the\u00a0<em>Daily Mail,<\/em>\u00a0Hogan\u2019s note read: \u201cTHIS IS MY HOUSE NOT YOURS\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Hogan later denied writing the message, despite being pictured writing it with a red marker.<\/p>\n<p>Months later in November, Hogan told\u00a0<em>Today<\/em>\u00a0he was finally returning to his home country in time for Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m surviving. I\u2019m homesick, but I\u2019ll be back for Christmas \u2026 Looking forward to the end of this stupid disease,\u201d he said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>But Hogan has previously said he enjoys the anonymity he gets in the US, which he said kept him in Tinseltown despite feeling \u201clike a kangaroo in a Russian zoo\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Hogan \u2013 affectionately dubbed \u2018Hoges\u2019 \u2013 shot to fame as the loveable larrikin on\u00a0<em>The Paul Hogan Show<\/em>\u00a0in the early 70s, before becoming a global superstar \u2013 and a one-man arm of Australia\u2019s tourism industry \u2013 with the smash hit film<em>\u00a0Crocodile Dundee<\/em>\u00a0in 1986.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Hogan has \u2013 for years now \u2013 been talking about how homesick he is. 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