Could your new Bucks County neighbor be heartthrob actor Bradley Cooper? We'll see.
Is a Hollywood A-lister getting ready to call Bucks County home?
The celebrity news magazine Page Six recently reported that actor, director, Eagles fan and Abington native Bradley Cooper, 48, is purchasing a home near the Solebury horse farm owned by Yolanda Hadid.
Yolanda is the mother of Cooper’s reported 28-year-old girlfriend, supermodel Gigi Hadid. The couple has been dating for a few months and recently spent a weekend at the River House at Odette’s in New Hope, Page Six reported.
If Cooper is thinking about putting down real estate roots in Bucks County he won’t be the first. The county has a reputation for attracting celebrities, professional athletes and game show contestants who grew up or spent time here.
We don’t know if any of these celebs have put down roots like the Hadid family, but here are some of the famous folks who have Bucks ties.
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Celebrity restauranter Jose Garces
The James Beard Award-winning and former “Iron Chef” Jose Garces owns the 40-acre “Luna Farm” in the Upper Black Eddy area and he is listed as its “Chief Culinary Officer,” according to the website.
Luna Farms grows fresh organic vegetables, fruits, eggs and honey year-round, according to Garces’ website. The farm also plays a critical role in support of the Garces Foundation’s mission to educate children about the nutritional benefits of sustainable agriculture, meal preparation and healthy eating.
“Jackass” franchise celebrity Bam Margera
Earlier this year the New Hope Free Press reported that former MTV star Brandon “Bam” Margera was living in the Central Bucks area.
The Chester County native was observed in Doylestown multiple times throughout September, according to sightings reported by the Free Press. Margera was photographed at the Handsome Devil Barber Lounge in Doylestown, First Hand Tattoo in Warminster, the Doylestown Fire Company, and the Doylestown Arts Fest.
“Squid Games” contestant Tracey Gatte
Harry S. Truman High School drama director and Bristol resident Gatte was among 456 contestants competing in the new 10-episode game show “Squid Games: The Challenge.”
The show was modeled after the uber popular 2021 South Korean series where poor people are recruited to play a series of deadly games to win money.
The game show, which like the series, aired on Netflix, aired its finale Dec. 6.
Players like Gatte, competed to win $4.56 million, the largest cash prize in Netflix's reality TV history by completing games inspired by the original show.
It was not immediately known when or how Gattes exited the show.
According to Variety magazine, 228 contestants were eliminated in the first challenge of “Red Light, Green Light.”
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American Idol Catie Turner
Bucks County has been the hometown for American Idol contestants
Doylestown’s Justin Guarini (2002) and Lower Southampton’s Anthony Fedorov (2005) grew up here. While Fedorov no longer appears to live here, Guarini is registered to vote in Doylestown, and commutes to NYC, according to a Facebook post from his wife.
Most recently, pop singer Catie Turner gained fame on the popular TV show during the 2018 season placing in the top seven finalists. Earlier this year she appeared on the show that made her famous as a songwriting coach.
Turner grew up in Langhorne and graduated from Neshaminy High School, but it appears that she is currently living in Los Angeles.
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“Love Island” contestant Shannon St. Clair
In 2021 St Claire, a 2014 Archbishop Wood High School graduate, spent 31 days on a Hawaiian island in a villa complete with a "mostly dormant volcano,” as one of 11 contestants in the third season of the reality TV show “Love Island USA.”
St. Claire, a graduate of Bucks County Community College and Temple University, didn’t share in the $100,000 first-prize for the winning couple. But she did find lasting love with fellow contestant Josh Goldstein.
St. Clair chose to leave the show with Goldstein after his sister suddenly died during production, according to Us Weekly. The couple moved to Florida in 2021, split up in June 2022, but a few months later reunited, according to Lifeandstylemag.com
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This article originally appeared on Bucks County Courier Times: Is actor Bradley Cooper planning to buy a house in Bucks County?
