“It’s just that Richmond is quite nice, and we’d like to keep it that way.” It is a very nice area, so you don’t tend to get the hooky knockoff shops,” said Gareth Roberts, the head of the council in Richmond upon Thames. The Evening Standard once described it as the “beating heart of London’s growing tech industry.” Home prices hover just under $1 million, more than double the U.K. Richmond upon Thames remains one of London’s most expensive places to live. I've read everything about 'Ted Lasso' and still can't get over its origin story The real reason no actual Brits are watching 'Ted Lasso' I love 'Ted Lasso,' but man do I hate Apple TV Plus “I kept being like, ‘Is this production design? Did we build this?’ It doesn’t seem real. “When we went to film in Richmond, I was like, ‘f-k,’” said Brett Goldstein, who plays foul-mouthed player-turned-coach Roy Kent. Richmond upon Thames’ tourism website does highlight Ted Lasso Tours - but those are buried fairly low on the page, far below a banner for a menopause festival. Except for a small photo of the cast taped to the window of an Italian embroidery shop and an AFC Richmond jersey hanging in the back corner of a pub, you’ll be hard-pressed to find any “Ted Lasso” anything.īrendan Hunt, left, and Jason Sudeikis play Coach Beard and Ted Lasso in Apple TV's "Ted Lasso," which is filmed in London's Richmond upon Thames. Nor will you stumble upon “BELIEVE” keychains or mustachioed, visor-wearing Ted plushies in any of the local shops. What it doesn’t have are biscuits in little pink boxes in any of the local bakeries (I checked). Since 1965, it has been one of seven towns that make up the London borough of Richmond upon Thames, and it has a population that’s about the size of South Lake Tahoe (around 20,000). “I mean, I certainly think the people who live there, as much as they love it, there’s a certain kind of British snottiness that doesn’t allow it to change.”įounded in the 16th century after King Henry VII completed its eponymous palace, the town of Richmond was famously the home of Queen Elizabeth I until her death in 1603 and boasts both the Royal Botanic Gardens and Hampton Court Palace. “You know what that is? That is the British sensibility,” Hannah Waddingham, who plays AFC Richmond owner Rebecca Welton, told SFGATE just days before the premiere of Season 3. Marek poses with his oldest two daughters in the quaint British alleyway where Ted Lasso lives. But unlike virtually every American town featured in a movie or TV show that inevitably becomes a living, breathing gift shop ( hi, Bodega Bay), you wouldn’t even know an 11-time Emmy winner was filmed in London’s Richmond upon Thames.įrom left, SFGATE's Grant Marek stands in front of the door to Ted Lasso's apartment in Richmond, England, featured in "Ted Lasso" on Apple TV+. I walked down the quaint British alleyway Ted Lasso (Jason Sudeikis) lives on, had a pint at his local pub and sat on the same exact bench he does with his trusty coaching compatriot Coach Beard (Brendan Hunt).
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