Meg Ryan dreams of moving to London because she's a "total anglophile"

She told The Sunday Times newspaper: "I'm a total anglophile and have this little London dream of living there one day. My daughter, she's doing English literature at college here, but she's hoping to study in Bath one day."

Meg - who adopted Daisy, 20, as a baby and is also mum to son Jack, 32, from her marriage to Dennis Quaid - also revealed her passion for property revealing she enjoys buying new homes which include a newly-purchased pad on America's east coast.

She also explained when she's at home she aims to spend several hours a day not looking at her phone or answering emails.

Meg said: "I do this thing that my friends and I call a 'turnout', and it has really changed my life. A turnout is what you do with a horse in the morning, when you're not exercising it, you're not feeding it, they're just shaking their head and doing whatever they want.

"I used to spend an hour on a turnout, but now it's three, and it's about not answering emails, just writing, painting, calling someone I haven't called in a while.

"It's a more tactile way of living, less about the day-to-day. And I try to see a friend every day and I ride on my bike - that's how I get my exercise."

Meg has taken a break from acting in recent years and has been focusing on directing, and she previously admitted she needed a break from Hollywood to expand her horizons.

She told Italian publication IO Donna: "I needed other experiences, to meet people outside the film industry. For this reason I moved to New York, I raised my daughter Daisy, and then on I started travelling, especially to distant countries.

"When you are up to your neck in the 'bubble of fame' you cannot suddenly free yourself from it, you always remain somehow lost in the labyrinth of notoriety. But you know what? I'd had enough, I'm happy to have made that choice and moved away from that world: I became a better and more interesting human being."