Stars are going nation — and we’re not speaking concerning the music. Celebrities like Melissa Joan Hart, Steven Tyler and Reese Witherspoon have all relocated to Tennessee over the previous few a long time.
Kristin Cavallari, who has known as the state dwelling since 2017, completely informed Us Weekly in June 2018 why it was the proper place for her household. (Cavallari shares three children with ex-husband Jay Cutler, who first lured her to the south.)
“Jay went to Vanderbilt. And we simply determined that this was the place we wished to be when he was executed with soccer,” Cavallari stated on the time. “We simply at all times knew that is the place we wished to lift our household. My favourite factor about Nashville is that it has every little thing {that a} huge metropolis has to supply, however it looks like a small city. And everybody’s so pleasant, and heat, and there’s actually nothing dangerous about Nashville.”
Kathie Lee Gifford was equally as excited to have some southern hospitality in her life after shifting to the world in 2018.
“To begin with, there’s a totally different tradition — fully totally different tradition down there, and it’s a tradition of kindness in Nashville,” Gifford informed Hoda Kotb in November 2019 whereas showing on the Immediately present. “And they’re authentically sort. They’re joyful, they’ve a lot enjoyable. Music in all places. There are barbecues. Every part is Americana, like after I was rising up.”
Scroll all the way down to see which celebrities moved to Tennessee in recent times:
Jack White
The White Stripes musician left his hometown of Detroit, Michigan, for Nashville in 2005 and by no means regarded again. “I’ve at all times felt like Detroit is my dwelling,” White informed The Tennessean in July 2014. “However I’ve at all times felt like my soul got here from another place. And possibly it’s from down South.”
White introduced his hometown feels to Nashville shortly after his transfer. He launched Third Man Information in Detroit in 2001, and in 2009 he opened its Nashville location.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck
Hasselbeck left Connecticut behind in 2016 for the quiet neighborhood of Belle Meade in Nashville. “Nashville is a metropolis that has eyes that see different folks, the house for kindness and the fingers to raise somebody up once they want it,” the previous cohost of The View informed The Tennessean in March 2019.
Elisabeth and her husband, Tim Hasselbeck, uprooted their household after she fell in love with town whereas internet hosting the Ok-LOVE Christian music awards present in 2015.
Steven Tyler
“I got here to Nashville. I rented a home. Now I simply purchased a home, so I’m residing right here full-on. It’s a musical Mecca,” Tyler informed Louder Sound in August 2016, confirming his new dwelling state. “I cowrote with everybody down right here, and I feel I’ve executed a few of my greatest work by this nation head.”
The Aerosmith frontman added: “This city nonetheless has the fervour for music. It hasn’t misplaced it by enterprise and cash, which can be huge right here, however the music facet nonetheless has the fervour. Artists come right here come from everywhere in the world to be a part of it, and there’s a lot music dripping out of the honeycomb of this city that I’m in it. I’m in it neck-deep. I’m going to remain right here. I’m going to dwell right here. I like it right here.”
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Kristin Cavallari
Cavallari moved from Chicago to Nashville in 2017 after her then-husband, Cutler, was launched from the Chicago Bears. Following Cavallari and Cutler’s 2020 divorce, the Laguna Seaside alum remained in Music Metropolis to coparent their three youngsters: Camden, Jaxon and Saylor.
Cavallari moved into her personal home in Franklin, Tennessee, following her cut up from Cutler. After 4 years, she as soon as once more relocated, however stayed in the identical space. “I’m at present sitting in my half-empty kitchen, however truly there’s simply packing containers stacked in all places,” she stated on an October 2024 episode of her “Let’s Be Trustworthy” podcast. “Simply moved into my new home a pair days in the past.”
Reese Witherspoon
Witherspoon was born in New Orleans and grew up in Nashville, which nonetheless has a chunk of her coronary heart. Whereas the actress has lived in Los Angeles on and off for years — and nonetheless owns property in California — she moved again to Nashville within the mid-2000s. The Legally Blonde actress reportedly purchased her present dwelling within the southern metropolis in 2014.
Kathie Lee Gifford
The previous Immediately With Kathie Lee & Hoda cohost moved from Greenwich, Connecticut, to Franklin, Tennessee, in 2018. After retiring from Immediately in 2019, Gifford bought a second property in the identical neighborhood and moved into the $3.7 million brownstone that July.
Jana Kramer
The actress and singer moved again to Nashville in 2019 after residing along with her then-husband, Mike Caussin, and their two youngsters, Jolie and Jace, in Los Angeles for a number of years. Kramer has remained in Tennessee following her divorce from Caussin in 2021. She now lives in Music Metropolis along with her husband, Allan Russell, with whom she shares son Roman.
Melissa Joan Hart
The Sabrina the Teenage Witch alum uprooted her household in October 2020, leaving Connecticut for Nashville. Hart celebrated her three-year anniversary within the South by way of Instagram by sharing a photograph along with her husband, Mark Wilkerson, and their three sons inside their humble abode.
“Comfortable Nashville Anniversary to us … and an enormous hug to all the buddies, neighbors, academics and individuals who have made it such an exquisite place to lift our household,” she captioned the October 2023 put up.
Ali Fedotowsky
The previous Bachelorette moved from Los Angeles to Nashville in 2021, completely telling Us that she and husband Kevin Manno had discovered their “dream dwelling.”
“My husband and I each really feel so lucky to dwell on this dwelling. We discovered it when it was only a framed home and although there wasn’t even drywall on the partitions but, we simply knew it was the proper dwelling for us,” she stated in 2022. “I selected each gentle fixture, every bit of {hardware}, and all of the little particulars. Actually, the one factor I didn’t select was the structure since that was already set once we discovered it. So, we actually did get the chance to make it our dream dwelling, although we didn’t technically construct it. I get up grateful for this dwelling each single morning.”
In July 2025, Fedotowsky introduced that she and Manno, in addition to their daughter, Molly, and son Riley, offered their home and have been leaving Nashville. “We’re not one hundred pc certain the place we’re going but, however we’re excited for this new chapter nonetheless! Extra to return quickly,” she teased by way of Instagram.
Kellan Lutz
The Twilight star informed Fox Information in December 2023 that he moved from the west coast to Nashville to be nearer to his spouse, Brittany’s household. “The way in which the trade is true now, at present I can work and dwell wherever after which simply fly to do films,” Lutz stated. “And no less than my spouse has a assist system right here after I’m gone.”
“I bear in mind rising up, my household had a farm in Iowa, and I noticed my grandparents, and it was the most effective time. We spent a month or so on the farm. Cows, pigs, every little thing. Nevertheless it’s fleeting. Individuals aren’t residing as lengthy,” Lutz, who shares two youngsters together with his partner, continued. “You solely have a lot time along with your grandparents. And we dwell a mile from my spouse’s dad and mom, and so we stroll there. It’s simply stunning.”
Kirk Cameron
Cameron revealed in July 2024 that he moved his household from California to Tennessee amid security considerations. “Actually, there’s the considerations of politics and crime and the economic system, however I’m discovering California refugees throughout Tennessee and Texas and Florida and locations like this,” the Rising Pains alum informed Fox Information. “There’s been a flood of expertise and creatives who’ve left California. They’re annoyed that their values are usually not being represented within the tasks that they’re engaged on.”
He famous that Tennessee had an “82 % improve in movement image and tv manufacturing jobs” dubbing it the “Hollywood of the South.” Cameron added that he was one in all many engaged on Christian tasks within the state.
Chrissy Metz
“I moved to Nashville,” Metz informed Individuals in April 2025, revealing she’d been residing within the South for a number of years. “I used to be in L.A. for 21 years, however my household is in Florida, the place I’m from, and throughout the pandemic, I may drive to them from right here. It’s only a higher high quality of life right here. Every part is quarter-hour away, and it’s simply a lot much less stress.”
The This Is Us alum defined, “There’s lots occurring. There’s clearly nice music, nice meals. I grew up within the South, so I’m used to kind of that hospitality — it feels extra communal right here. In L.A. it was at all times like, ‘Oh, you will have an audition? What’s it for? Oh, you will have an audition? What for?’ It was all very canine eat canine.”
Kirsten Storms
The Normal Hospital actress introduced in July 2025 that she was leaving Los Angeles for Nashville along with her daughter, Harper, whom she shares with ex-husband Brandon Barash.
“I’m very excited to be making Tennessee my dwelling! I can’t wait to return to GH, as soon as Harper and I are settled in our new city,” Storms wrote by way of Instagram. “I plan on documenting as a lot of this new journey on my social media as I can. It’s at all times been a dream of mine to maneuver to a spot like this, it’s laborious to imagine it’s actually taking place.”
