For many parents, the most exciting thing at the school gates will be some light gossiping.
But some mothers in Hampstead have been left swooning after the Hollywood heart-throb Ryan Gosling appeared to pick up his children.
The Mail on Sunday can reveal the La La Land star, 44, has relocated from the US and bought a house in the affluent north London area with wife Eva Mendes and their daughters Esmerelda, 11, and Amada Lee, nine.
A Hampstead local said: ‘Yes, he’s here and so delightful chatting to everyone at the school gate – such a lovely man.
‘And everyone can’t stop talking about how good looking he is, the mums are practically drooling over him.’
Gosling’s arrival has caused much excitement in the area, with one person revealing on Instagram’s Threads that the actor had held a door open for them: ‘Today’s unexpected adventure, Ryan Gosling holding the door open for me at a cafe in West Hampstead. What a gent!… Quite unexpected really!’
Former American actress Ms Mendes, 51, met Canadian-born Gosling on the set of the 2012 thriller Place Beyond The Pines and they were married in 2022. Ms Mendes retired from acting around the time her first daughter was born.
Gosling is in London filming the upcoming Star Wars movie Starfighter, but it is also believed he moved his family from the US to escape the ‘unstable’ political landscape.
Ryan Gosling, 44, has relocated to Hampstead with his wife Eva Mendes and their two children
Ryan and his wife Eva Mendes lived in Notting Hill while he filmed Project Hail Mary in 2024
Known as the ‘Donald Dash’, other celebrities who moved to the UK as President Trump took office include former chat show host Ellen DeGeneres, who lives in the Cotswolds with her wife Portia de Rossi, and
Gosling’s Barbie co-star America Ferrera who has reportedly moved to south-west London.
Last year Gosling and the family lived in Notting Hill while he filmed Project Hail Mary.
But they briefly moved back to California before settling in Hampstead, an area it appears they have been eyeing up for some time after they were reportedly seen house hunting in 2022.
