Comedian Ben Elton announces move to Australia

November 10 2009 by Liam Clifford

Ben Elton announces plans to move to Australia with his wife and three children.

Anti-establishment comedian Ben Elton has announced that he is leaving the UK to live in Australia full-time.

Ben and his wife, an Australian saxophonist, along with their three young children, are moving to Australia next month. They have chosen the western Australian region of Fremantle in a move that will finally allow them all to settle in one place, rather than splitting their family between the two countries.

The family own a large house in Fremantle and Elton already holds duel British/Australian citizenship, however they have been living in the UK for the past five years. Elton explained, 'the kids have been at the local school in Sussex. But we are going to swap that around. We are going to relocate back to Freeo and live in Australia for a while.”

Elton’s decision to move to sunnier climes will not come as too much of a surprise to those who are familiar with his style of humour. Many of his jokes, as well as his books and plays, criticise the British government. He was an outspoken opponent to the Thatcher government of the 1980s and has also criticised the current Labour government for meddling, as well as for their handling of the credit crunch and the recession.

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