‘Grease’ star Stockard Channing says she’s ‘happy being a recluse’ after leaving America

Stockard Channing admitted she's "happy being a recluse" as she reflected on her quiet lifestyle after fleeing the states for the United Kingdom.The "Grease" star began living in London "just before Covid," a move she envisioned after the 2014 death of her partner of 25 years, producer Daniel Gilham."I've lived alone since I lost Daniel and I'm happy being a recluse," Channing wrote in an essay for The Sunday Times. "I was married four times before Daniel and they all represent epochs of me."HEATHER LOCKLEAR SAYS SHE LIVES 'FAR AWAY' FROM HOLLYWOOD AND STAYS OUT OF THE SOCIAL SCENE"I grew up in the Sixties, reacting to that repressed notion of marriage and sexuality from the Fifties kinda like Rizzo," she noted.
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Stockard Channing admitted she's "happy being a recluse" as she reflected on her quiet lifestyle after fleeing the states for the United Kingdom.The "Grease" star began living in London "just before Covid," a move she envisioned after the 2014 death of her partner of 25 years, producer Daniel Gilham."I've lived alone since I lost Daniel and I'm happy being a recluse," Channing wrote in an essay for The Sunday Times. "I was married four times before Daniel and they all represent epochs of me."HEATHER LOCKLEAR SAYS SHE LIVES 'FAR AWAY' FROM HOLLYWOOD AND STAYS OUT OF THE SOCIAL SCENE"I grew up in the Sixties, reacting to that repressed notion of marriage and sexuality from the Fifties kinda like Rizzo," she noted. "Children were thought about and, yeah, I think about them now because it'd be great to have someone taking care of me. But hey, children can be just as selfish as everybody else out there."Channing, 82, confessed that Gilham's death "was more devastating than I realized; it had a lag effect."‘SOPRANOS’ STAR JAMIE-LYNN SIGLER FLED HOLLYWOOD FOR TEXAS WHERE SHE NO LONGER FEELS ‘WATCHED’"The pattern of my life shifted, so I shifted my life from Maine," she wrote of the move, which also vaguely coincided with Trump's second presidential bid."When I started playing 'The West Wing's first lady, Abbey Bartlet, in 1999, we were about to move to the second Bush administration," she wrote.
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- Stockard Channing admitted she's "happy being a recluse" as she reflected on her quiet lifestyle after fleeing the states for the United Kingdom.The "Grease" star began living in London "just before Covid," a move she envisioned after the 2014 death of her partner of 25 years, producer Daniel Gilham."I've lived alone since I lost Daniel and I'm happy being a recluse," Channing wrote in an essay for The Sunday Times. "I was married four times before Daniel and they all represent epochs of me."HEATHER LOCKLEAR SAYS SHE LIVES 'FAR AWAY' FROM HOLLYWOOD AND STAYS OUT OF THE SOCIAL SCENE"I grew up in the Sixties, reacting to that repressed notion of marriage and sexuality from the Fifties kinda like Rizzo," she noted.
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