{"id":2407669,"date":"2026-05-08T14:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T14:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2407669"},"modified":"2026-05-08T14:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T14:09:10","slug":"why-tom-hanks-son-chet-lives-in-trailer-park-after-ditching-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/why-tom-hanks-son-chet-lives-in-trailer-park-after-ditching-hollywood\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Tom Hanks&#8217; son Chet lives in trailer park after ditching Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A beautiful day in the trailer park.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Hanks\u2019 son Chet Hanks has been living in an RV since ditching Hollywood for a county music career in Nashville.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_lF__ozFtEg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">explained to \u201cTonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon\u201d viewers<\/a> last week that he \u201cdidn\u2019t want to get an apartment\u201d when he moved to Tennessee because he had \u201cjust \u2026 furnished\u201d a Los Angeles condo.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> <span class=\"credit\">Todd Owyoung\/NBC<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> <span class=\"credit\">Chet Hanks \/ Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t want to do that again,\u201d the singer said during the April 29 interview, noting that the rental homes he stayed in at first got \u201creally old\u201d really quickly.<\/p>\n<p>He, instead, got set up in an RV, which has \u201ceverything [he] need[s].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chet explained, \u201cI just like having my own space. I got my kitchen. I got a walk-in shower \u2014 that\u2019s a big deal in trailers.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> <span class=\"credit\">Chet Hanks \/ Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> <span class=\"credit\">Todd Owyoung\/NBC<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He clarified that the trailer park he resides in is far from \u201csketchy,\u201d including primarily \u201cretirees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m probably the youngest person in the trailer park by 30 or 40 years,\u201d Chet quipped, dubbing his neighbors \u201cgood people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a developing story\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> <span class=\"credit\">FilmMagic<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> <span class=\"credit\">Bruce Glikas\/WireImage<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source pagesix.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A beautiful day in the trailer park. Tom Hanks\u2019 son Chet Hanks has been living in an RV since ditching Hollywood for a county music career in Nashville. The 35-year-old explained to \u201cTonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon\u201d viewers last week that he \u201cdidn\u2019t want to get an apartment\u201d when he moved to Tennessee because he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2407670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[30058,24003,447009,22860,23510,22507,306358],"class_list":["post-2407669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-children","tag-celebrity-news","tag-chet-hanks","tag-hollywood","tag-nashville","tag-parents","tag-tom-hanks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Why-Tom-Hanks-son-Chet-lives-in-trailer-park-after.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2407669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2407671,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407669\/revisions\/2407671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2407670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2407669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2407669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2407669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}