Zac Efron homes in on permanent digs in northern NSW
Zac Efron has been quietly living in northern NSW, with the Hollywood heart-throb so in love with the area, he’s making moves to put down more permanent roots.
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Another celebrity might be moving to northern NSW, with Hollywood heart-throb Zac Efron making inquiries about a Broken Head property.
The Sunday Telegraph can confirm Efron has been sheltering in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic and has inquired about purchasing the Broken Head property he has been staying in.
Efron, 32, has reportedly been holed up with his manager and has been socialising with mates including Chris and Liam Hemsworth and The Whitlams frontman Tim Freedman.
Freedman owns a holiday home — usually rented out for weddings — a few doors down from where Efron was staying. Chris Hemsworth, his wife Elsa and three children live in a $20 million mega-mansion in the Byron hinterland.
Efron spent four to five weeks at the Byron Beach Retreats property, which is named The Boardwalk, where he went surfing and spent plenty of time in the kitchen.
And The High School Musical star has apparently fallen in love with the home and made an inquiry about buying it.
“He spent his time surfing and hanging out at the beach,” one local resident told The Sunday Telegraph.
“He was obviously trying to keep a low profile during COVID-19 and because Broken is out of the centre of town, it’s a pretty good place to fly under the radar.”
Reports Efron was staying near Byron first surfaced earlier this week with several apparent “sightings” of the actor at various cafes and restaurants in Byron Bay.
One woman claims to have seen him at the Byron Bay General Store cafe.
“Don’t mean to alarm anyone but Zac Efron was literally eating at the same cafe as me when this was taken,” influencer Tarsha Whitmore wrote on Instagram earlier this week.
His time in northern NSW comes just six months after the actor was rushed to a Brisbane hospital after falling ill while filming his TV show, Killing Zac Efron, in Papua New Guinea in December.
The Sunday Telegraph revealed at the time Efron came down with a “form of typhoid or similar bacterial infection” just before Christmas, and was flown to Brisbane on a “life-and-death flight” with the assistance of medical professionals.
He received treatment for several days, before being given the all clear by doctors to fly home to the US on Christmas Eve.
Originally published as Zac Efron homes in on permanent digs in northern NSW