Posted on 10/21/2022 8:35:48 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Actor Mark Wahlberg, who's known for being outspoken about his Catholic faith, has decided to move out of California to provide his children with a "better life."
The “Father Stu” star recently opened up about why he packed up his family's worldly belongings in their Beverly Hills mansion to relocate to another state.
“I want to be able to work from home,” the 51-year-old movie star told the co-hosts of CBS' daytime talk show "The Talk" on Tuesday. “I moved to California many years ago to pursue acting, and I’ve only made a couple of movies in the entire time that I was there.
The Boston native said he was seeking to balance out his family's life and career.
“So, to be able to give my kids a better life and follow and pursue their dreams whether it be my daughter as an equestrian, my son as a basketball player, my younger son as a golfer, this made a lot more sense for us,” he continued.
Wahlberg, along with his wife of 13 years, Rhea Durham, and their four children, Ella, 18, Michael, 16, Brendan, 13, and Grace, 12, are now residents of Las Vegas, Nevada.
According to the New York Post, Wahlberg’s Beverly Hills home, which he purchased in 2009, is on the market for $87.5 million. The 30,500-square-foot mansion features 12 bedrooms, 20 bathrooms, a home theater, a golf course, a skate park, a gym and a guest house.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that Wahlberg and his family now live in a $15.6 million home in Summerlin, which has a population of just under 31,000 residents.
“We came here to just kind of give ourselves a new look, a fresh start for the kids, and there’s a lot of opportunity here. I’m really excited about the future,” Wahlberg said.
In a previous interview with The Christian Post, Wahlberg shared how important faith and family are to him.
"I've been very blessed and very fortunate. And it's because of the focus that I put on my faith and on my family that have allowed me to accomplish so many things. Also, with the failure and disappointment and loss, life is not easy," the actor said.
"There's nothing more important than faith and family," Wahlberg declared.
In a more recent interview with CP, Wahlberg described his encounter with the transforming power of Jesus Christ as he answered the call from God to tell the true-life story of Father Stuart Long on the silver screen.
Wahlberg portrayed Father Stu on-screen and was joined by Academy Award-winner Mel Gibson, who played his father, Bill Long.
He spent six “slow years” trying to get to where the movie would finally be made. And when the time came, the project was filmed in 30 days during the COVID-19 lockdowns.
Wahlberg said it was "always a mission" of his to get the film made and he feels called to continue making inspiring content.
"My destiny is different from everybody else's destiny. How it's written was not by me. It's time for me to go out there and go through the motions, but this is God's doing!”
Actor Mark Wahlberg Opens Up About His Faith And New Christian Movie ‘Father Stu’
https://www.faithpot.com/mark-wahlberg-faith-movie/
I don’t understand this. Life is very good in California if you have a multimillion dollar estate to separate yourself from the teems of poor homeless people crapping on the streets and criminal border busters.
“Mansion” barely begins to describe the palace they had in Beverly Hills. People are free to spend their money however they want, and he earned it fair and square, but I don’t know why anyone - short of an actual “royal” who must conduct public events at their official residence - would want to live in such an enormous and ostentations “home”. It will be interesting to see if they downsize in Las Vegas.
Would that be the “Boogie Nights” star Catholic Mark Wahlberg ?
A racist jerk with money.
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[on narrowly avoiding being on hijacked 9/11 flight United 93] “If I was on that plane with my kids, it wouldn’t have went down like it did. There would have been a lot of blood in that first-class cabin and then me saying, “Okay, we’re going to land somewhere safely, don’t worry.” We certainly would have tried to do something to fight. I’ve had probably over 50 dreams about it.”
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000242/bio?ref_=nm_dyk_qt_sm#quotes
Are you serious or joking?
I can tell you from personal experience that the pervasive sense of ultra liberal, anti-conservative government, the horrendous results of ultra liberal policies, really wear on you. Every day brings another downer.
He has a troublesome background but to his credit, he overcame his past mistakes.
Still do not know in what state Summerlin is.
Hmmm, there seem to be some clues in the article:
“Wahlberg, along with his wife of 13 years, Rhea Durham, and their four children, Ella, 18, Michael, 16, Brendan, 13, and Grace, 12, are now residents of Las Vegas, Nevada. ... The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that Wahlberg and his family now live in a $15.6 million home in Summerlin, which has a population of just under 31,000 residents.”
Summerlin is in NV.
I liked Fr. Stu. I saw it twice.
It is what his teens are being exposed to in school and by friends
California (particularly the Hills) is not a real or healthy environment
Makes perfect sense to me
Racist? Based on what?
He forgot the number one reason he moved...taxes. No state income tax in NV goes a long way in making that an easy decision.
you are? Maybe you’re in the wrong place calling people “racists” like you frequently do. Maybe The View website or The Joy Reid Show website is more your bag. If ANYONE in Hollywood thought Walberg was a white nationalist, he would be still be digging ditches in in Mass, not working in Hollywood. GTFOOH
Vegas is an odd choice as a location to live a moral life. So is Florida btw.
Should have moved to FL Mark.
“I was still sending stuff off and on, and then they bought [land] at the Summit after I suggested that in the first place,” Taylor said, laughing. She doesn’t have any idea what size home Wahlberg plans to build in the Summit. Given his past propensity for size, it’s likely to be gigantic.”
https://www.dirt.com/gallery/entertainers/actors/mark-wahlberg-house-las-vegas-1203579415/
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