Richard Gere’s current wife is “from Spain,” just like good ol’ Hilaria Baldwin. LOL. Actually, Gere’s wife Alejandra Silva is actually Spanish, she was born and raised in Spain and she doesn’t have a Hilaria-style come-and-go Mexican accent. I actually thought that when Gere and Silva married in 2018, he moved to Spain or somewhere in Europe. But no, apparently he moved Alejandra to Connecticut, which is where they’ve been living with their young family for the past seven years. Gere confirmed this week that they’re moving full time to Spain now though.
Richard Gere’s holiday season will be kicking off in Spain! After sharing his desire to relocate to the European country earlier this year, the actor appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Wednesday, Nov. 20, and revealed that he and his family will be celebrating Thanksgiving in Madrid as he discussed their move there.
“My wife [Alejandra Silva] is Spanish. Is this a problem for anybody out there?” joked Gere, 75, adding that he will still return to the United States. “But my wife is Spanish and she gave me about seven years here, so we’re going to spend some years in Madrid with her family,” said the Pretty Woman star, who was also discussing his upcoming series The Agency.
“Our kids are bilingual so they’re going to flourish there,” Gere added. Host Jimmy Fallon asked Gere — who also joked that he is bilingual and can “speak 15 languages perfectly” — if he will be spending Thanksgiving in Madrid, to which he replied, “There in Spain, yeah.”
“My wife grew up in a big Spanish family, like a big Italian family, and her grandmother was kind of the glue that held that all together,” he continued. “And the grandmother passed away [about] two years ago, so my wife, I can see her morphing into the new grandmother of this extended family. So she’s already planning for 35 people for Sunday lunches.”
Gere and Silva first met in 2014 at a hotel in Positano, Italy, before marrying in May 2018. They went on to welcome two sons: Alexander, 5, and James, 4.
People Mag notes that Gere has already sold his Connecticut home for $11 million last month. Spectacular planning on his part – he laid the groundwork for this move for a whole year, and my guess is that their sons are probably already enrolled in school in Spain. Do we think that this is about the incoming Trump presidency? Well… I think Richard Gere already wanted to move for his wife and family, and I’m sure there were many reasons, personal and political. But yeah, great timing. It will be interesting to see how many celebrities had lowkey back-up plans in the next few months.
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- Richard Gere und seine Ehefrau Alejandra Gere bei der Premiere vom Dokumentarfilm Wisdom of Happiness – A heart-to-heart with the Dalai Lama im Rahmen vom 20. Zurich Film Festival ZFFam 8.10.2024 in Zuerich Richard Gere & Ehefrau Alejandra Gere bei der Wisdom of Happiness Kinopremiere beim ZFF Zuerich Film Festival 2024 *** Richard Gere and his wife Alejandra Gere at the premiere of the documentary Wisdom of Happiness A heart to heart with the Dalai Lama as part of the 20 Zurich Film Festival ZFFam 8 10 2024 in Zurich Richard Gere wife Alejandra Gere at the Wisdom of Happiness cinema premiere at the ZFF Zurich Film Festival 2024,Image: 918307442, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: imago is entitled to issue a simple usage license at the time of provision. Personality and trademark rights as well as copyright laws regarding art-works shown must be observed. Commercial use at your own risk., Model Release: no, Credit line: IMAGO/Avalon/Avalon
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Well, he says his wife gave him 7 years here in the US and now it’s been 7 years, so it doesn’t sound like a huge surprise.
Clooney already sold the Studio City house he had for 30 years a few months ago. He only has the NYC pied a terre and Kentucky farmland in the US. He’s been in Sonning or Provance now.
This could have been written from Alejandra Silva’s perspective (returning to Spain with her Spanish [American] kids and American husband), it doesn’t read like fleeing Trump to me. At least, I think that’s lower on the list of all the things bringing them to Madrid.
If you want to emigrate with kids, generally the younger they are, the easier this is. If you can, try and go into a similar situation (don’t move from a rural area into a cramped apartment in a busy city if you can avoid that, for instance) as much as possible to ease culture shock. These kids are young, speak both languages, are familiar with Spain and have family there. This makes it easier for the children.
He’s 75 and has a 5 and 4 year old? It must be kind of sad raising them and knowing you’re not going to be around when they’re adults.
My grandfather and great-grandfather lived to 101 and 103 respectively. My husband’s side has 8 people of that generation living into their 90s. The youngest is 87 and goes to exercise class 3 times a week.
Conversly, I have had too many friends die in their 30s and 40s, leaving behind young kids.
While, *I* wouldn’t do it, I dont judge others. I had my twins at 38. To each their own.
My thought exactly. Incredibly selfish. While he “could” live to 100, the likelihood is that he will not. He is also not in the best shape (being 75 and all) for 2 energetic kids at that age. Selfish, selfish, selfish.
The wife’s involved here, too. She was 35 when they got married and with whom else would she have children?
My son goes to school and is good friends with Gere’s stepson. Without delving into too much detail, I can say this has nothing to do with the election and it’s all about about spending time with her family. I don’t know them well but they seem like really lovely people and it’s real.
These people think they can get away front what is happening worldwide. Even if they can escape politically they won’t escape climate change. Look at the flooding that happened in Spain last month, there was flooding in France and in Italy too. Your money can only get you so far.
This seems like it was being planned for a while and is more about moving back to her home country to be with her family and to let the children experience the Spanish culture and lifestyle for a few years. Maybe escaping Trump is a bonus but it doesn’t sound like it was the primary motivator here.
International families are always a challenge. My boyfriends BFF since school met and married a Danish lady and while they lived together in the UK pre-wedding, once they were married the deal was to settle and raise a family over there. They’re now doing this but I know he misses the UK and wishes they could be here more. Their kids are more Danish than British.
I’m feeling so jealous of all these people with the money and language skills to just get up and move.
Ugh Spain😒
I just keep thinking of being 25 years old with a 95 year old father. How sad but they’ll learn about natural loss very early on and for them it’s their norm. I get it but still it’s a bit sad. But the life they will have will be so rich – literally – bc they will have no worries about healthcare costs, their ailing dad getting round the clock care if needed etc. For most of us, caring for an aging parent would be stressful and expensive. For them they will simply enjoy every moment they can while others do the hard work and pay the bills. Not too bad!
I mean. To be fair, many children lose their parents at much younger ages. (Cancer, car accidents etc)
Or their parents were such abusive a-holes that it’s vastly preferable to go no contact the second you can and not look back. That’s much harder than having a good father who is just old.
It’s not an ideal situation but so much of life is less than ideal that this seems much more like a sadness on Gere’s part and less on the children’s. They get to have him in their lives and he’s a good person. (Hopefully)
Either way, Spain can be wonderful in so many ways especially to a certain kind of person (white, mostly) so I hope they get to spend a lot of time with family and relax and enjoy themselves. And hopefully being racially aware and a force for good while there.