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Lorna Hughes

Love Actually star flew to Scotland for lockdown at Argyll holiday home

Emma Thompson flew to her second home in Scotland for the coronavirus lockdown just four days after she and her husband became Italian citizens.

The Love Actually star and husband Greg Wise had moved to Venice after they were granted citizenship on February 28.

But as the country became one of the worst hit by Covid-19, they jetted back to Britain and their Argyll holiday home.

The couple, who have a £3million house in London are isolating at the home at Loch Eck.

The couple have been there since March 3, with their daughter and Emma's 87-year-old mum, Scottish actress Phyllida Law.

In a BBC interview, she once said of the loch: "I've played on its banks, picnicked on its beaches, swum in its chilly, unsalted depths, cycled round it, drunk it, got drunk near it, kissed in boats on it, got married near it and never wearied of it."

The UK Government banned people from moving to second homes after the Scottish Government blasted those making
non-essential trips to second homes in the Highlands.

Thompson had said that moving to Venice was “a dream” after Brexit spurred her on to leave the UK.

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