Paul Hogan reveals he is desperately homesick for Australia but won’t leave son Chance

Sydney-born Paul Hogan is longing to call Australia home once more.

But the 83-year-old Crocodile Dundee comedy icon, who is based in Los Angeles, says he won’t leave behind his adult son Chance, who was born in the USA. 

The legendary star said he would rather live in Australia because he is homesick.

Sydney-born Paul Hogan (pictured in 2020) is longing to call Australia home once more, the comedy icon told The Daily Telegraph on Friday 

He currently shares a home in Venice Beach with Chance, 24, a punk rocker, who Hogan describes as ‘American’.

‘The only family [Chance has got] is me,’ Hogan told The Daily Telegraph.

All of Chance’s close relatives, including his grandparents, have died, the Aussie superstar said. 

The 83-year-old Crocodile Dundee comedy icon, who is based in Los Angeles, says he won’t leave behind his American-born adult son Chance (pictured) to return home 

Rocker Chance is the enigmatic front-man for LA punk band Rowdy P. Pictured in 2018

And even though Chance loves to visit Australia Hogan says, his home is in the US. 

‘All his friends, his band, musician mates, girlfriends, everything – they’re all American,’ Hogan explained. 

‘He only has me, whereas my tribe at home, they’ve all got each other.’

Chance is Hogan’s youngest child, who he shares with his Crocodile Dundee co-star Linda Kozlowski, 74.

‘The only family [Chance has got] is me,’ Hogan told the publication. Chance is Hogan’s youngest child, who he shares with his Crocodile Dundee co-star Linda Kozlowski, 74. Linda, Paul and Chance are pictured in 2013

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‘I’ve been homesick for years,’ Paul said on Friday. Chance is Pictured in 2015

He left his first wife Noelene to pursue a love affair with much-younger Linda, now 74, and they wed in 1990. Chance is their only son. 

He moved to Los Angeles in 2005 with Kozlowski. The couple split in 2013 and Paul has played a primary role in raising Chance. 

‘I’ve been homesick for years,’ he said during the interview on Friday. ‘I miss the people, the ambience – and there’s something you just can’t put your finger on, but there’s something about Australia that is friendlier and more laid-back.

‘It never takes itself seriously – there’s no arrogance like there is in other places.’ 

The superstar who made millions off the box-office hits Crocodile Dundee (1986) and Crocodile Dundee II (1988) said he will be back in Australia before Christmas for a visit. 

Hogan was spotted out and about for the first time in over a year back in August as he ran errands in his crime and homeless-ridden Los Angeles neighborhood 

The last time Hogan, 82, was photographed in public was last May when he was thought to be pinning up an angry note to vagrants camped outside his $3.5million Venice mansion 

Hogan was spotted out and about for the first time in over a year back in August as he ran errands in his crime and homeless-ridden Los Angeles neighborhood.

The last time he had been photographed in public was last May when he was thought to be pinning up an angry note to vagrants camped outside his $3.5million Venice mansion.

Hogan denied writing the sign that read, ‘THIS IS MY HOUSE NOT YOURS,’ despite being pictured holding a red marker near the note. He claimed he was carrying the red marker near the sign because he was leaving instructions for an electrician.

In an interview with Sunrise last year, Hogan said he was ‘desperate’ to return to Australia and leave his life in America behind.

‘I am desperately homesick,’ he said.

The actor lives in the once-elite beachside suburb of Venice, where an increase in homelessness has resulted in a terrifying crime wave

The superstar who made millions off the box-office hits Crocodile Dundee (1986) and Crocodile Dundee II (1988) said he will be back in Australia before Christmas for a visit. Pictured: Hogan as his iconic hero, Mick ‘Crocodile’ Dundee 

His home is in the once-elite beachside suburb of Venice, where a vast increase in homelessness has seen hundreds of tents line the beach’s famous boardwalk and a sharp increase in crime.

‘I’m living in LA County, which is 10 million people and half of them have got Covid. So am I homesick? You bet your life,’ Hogan complained.

When asked how he was coping with Los Angeles’ crime wave, Hogan simply said he ‘doesn’t go anywhere.’

‘[I’m] bored in lockdown, and the minute I can get on the plane without being locked in a hotel for two weeks, I’m back,’ he said in 2021.

‘Where Paul lives is hell on earth,’ Hogan’s neighbor Tyler Proctor, a local politician, said last year. ‘His house is like a fortress and it needs to be. I can see why [he] wants to move out.’

Hogan, who is best know for depicting heartthrob adventurer Mick Dundee in the 1986 romantic adventure classic, has just completed a new book called Australia According to Hoges.

In it, Hogan, the one-time blue collar worker from Granville, in western Sydney turned movie and TV star shares bits of his family history and tells tales about some of his favourite Aussie characters.

Hogan, who is best know for depicting heartthrob adventurer Mick Dundee in the 1986 romantic adventure classic, has just completed a new book called Australia According to Hoges. Pictured: Linda Kozlowski and Hogan in a scene from Crocodile Dundee (1986)