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Former Child Star Who Begged Fans For Money Doubles Down After Being Told To Get A Real Job
Former child star Brandon “Bug” Hall hit back at critics, saying he wasn’t letting his financial woes interfere with his family plans.
The 41-year-old actor is preparing to welcome his sixth child and recently set up a GoFundMe page to help pay their bills.
When people asked him to “get a real job” to feed his growing family instead of begging people for money, Hall had a defiant answer to give.
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- Former child star Brandon “Bug” Hall isn’t letting his financial woes interfere with his family plans.
- The “Little Rascals” star launched a GoFundMe ahead of welcoming his sixth child.
- His response to people demanding he get a real job was anything but apologetic.
- The “self-canceled” actor has some unconventional ideas about raising his children.
Brandon “Bug” Hall, who took a “vow of poverty,” asked fans for money “before baby six” arrives
Brandon “Bug” Hall, best known for playing Alfalfa Switzer in the 1994 Steven Spielberg comedy Little Rascals, launched a GoFundMe page last week for financial help “before baby six.”
The actor left Hollywood in 2020, which was the same year he got arrested in Texas for allegedly huffing air duster cans.
Since then, the 41-year-old actor took a “vow of poverty” and has been living off-the-grid as “a radical Catholic extremist.”
With less than a month for his wife Jill Marie DeGroff to give birth to their sixth child, Hall turned to GoFundMe with an empty, outstretched arm.
He said he was a “few materials short of having things working right” at their rural Arkansas address.
He also admitted falling “a little behind on the few bills [they] have (phone, propane for the camper, and an unexpected electric hookup service fee).”
“It’s now six years since I self-canceled, and I have avoided doing one of these in all that time,” he wrote on the fundraising page.
The former child star said they have been enjoying “roughing it” since moving to rural Arkansas
“I always said this was my choice, and so I didn’t want to offload the glorious burden of it unless there was no other choice. Well, here we are,” he added.
Hall insisted his family was “overjoyed” to be where they are after moving his wife and their five small children to the small area near Mountain Home, Arkansas.
They have been enjoying “roughing it,” he said.
“But baby six is less than a month away, and I really need some help getting the last few things buttoned up beforehand,” he added.
The Big Green actor initially set his fundraising goal at $2,000. But donations have surpassed $26,000 so far.
Critics, however, weren’t convinced about Hall expanding his family while struggling to pay the bills.
“Put your pride down and get a real job. This is embarrassing; stop impregnating your wife when you can’t even keep your family afloat,” one wrote online.
Hall had a blunt answer to people asking him to get a “real job” and stop having kids if he can’t afford them
The criticism didn’t faze Hall, who seemed to have his priorities straight.
“I’m going to keep impregnating my wife,” he said with a thumbs-up emoji.
Another user advised him to move to a small town and “put [his] skills to work and get a job like everyone else.”
To this, too, the actor responded with a zinger.
“Nah. I’m busy building a farm and feeding my family and community,” he said.
Earlier this year, Hall explained his decision to move to the 80-acre plot in Mountain Home after he “self-canceled” himself from Hollywood.
He said he had given up all his money from his child star days as part of his religious pledge and donated most of his belongings as well.
Right after the move, his family was living in a campervan with a water well and a generator. His plan was to build them a house and go completely off-grid.
“My goal is to maintain a life as free of any need for an income as possible,” he told the Daily Mail in January. “If there’s a financial need that comes up, I’ll go take some work or do an odd job, for cash to fulfill that need.”
The actor previously called his son an “heir” and his daughters a sexist remark
Hall, who married his wife in 2017, said their children were being homeschooled because formal school is “nonsense,” adding that he would “strongly discourage them” from going to college when they grow up.
The actor was slammed in the past for calling their son his “heir” and using a sexist remark to refer to his daughters.
The controversial statements were made when he announced the birth of his son, Anthony Hall-Barnett, in 2024.
“I have an heir!” he announced on social media. “…My bride’s fifth delivery, third all natural.”
A handful of people congratulated the former actor, but others squirmed at his mention of the world “heir.”
“You already have daughters. WT* is wrong with you?!” one asked.
“I said heir, not dishwasher,” Hall responded to critics.
Hall’s post-Hollywood life has been marked by legal troubles
Hall’s last credit as an actor was in the 2020 movie This Is The Year.
In June the same year, he was arrested for inhaling an air duster after a 911 caller claimed he may have overd**ed.
The caller said they saw him huffing by a hotel dumpster.
Police arrived to find him in his hotel room surrounded by cans, and he was arrested for misdemeanor possession for use to inhale or ingest a volatile chemical.
In 2024, he was given a traffic citation for not having liability insurance.
He was also arrested in April this year on the charge of failure to appear for a court date from December 2024.
“Taking a vow of poverty and then asking for donations is such a loser behavior,” one commented online
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