He still has waywardly spiky hair, a stubbly rough draft of a goatee and a wry, misfit sense of humour. The 44-year-old seems mysteriously unchanged by his 12 years in LA, and by the passing of time in general. That heightened sense of risk is a double-edged sword.” The flipside of that is you get risk-takers and dreamers coming up with the craziest concepts. It’s literally on the edge of what could be a really big earthquake. He has twice had to evacuate from his home due to wildfires, one of which burned down his back yard and every house on the other side of the street. It seemed like it was one step away from complete chaos.” There was a moment when it felt like Mad Max 2. There are certain things you take for granted. “And whatever people say about the national health system, at least we have one. “Coming back here, you realise that there aren’t really any major natural disasters,” he says. He lives in Los Angeles during term-time to be close to his son with the actor Kate Hudson, but spends the holidays in London and hopes to move back permanently one day. Bellamy says all this while sipping lemon tea in the cool, dark corner of a favourite pub near his house in Primrose Hill.
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