Idris Elba doesn't want to live a celebrity lifestyle
The 41-year-old actor - who has daughter Isan, 11, with his ex-wife Dormowa Sherman and four-month-old son Winston with girlfriend Naiyana Garth - insists he has no plans to move to the US from the UK because he doesn't want his children growing up in the limelight.
2 September 2014
Speaking to the Daily Mirror newspaper, he said: "I won't be moving out here [to LA]. I don't want to get into all of that. I don't want my family growing up here. That isn't me, it just isn't. I rented a place on my own in North Hollywood, but the time I spent here was on my own. I'm not into the whole fame thing.
"I don't have celebrity friends. I have the same ones I had from when I was a kid. For me it's about my family, it's about my kids, what is best for them."
Idris credits his childhood growing up in Hackney, London, for helping him to stay level-headed.
He explained: "It wasn't easy but I feel at home there. I love it, it's that kind of place. My heart will always be there. I learned so much there.
"I have the best memories of playing outside with my friends. We had very little but it didn't matter. It was the simple things that I enjoyed and I still do. It was a poor area back then but it taught me a lot."
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