Amandaland star Lucy Punch has opened up on having to flee her US home after it was caught up in the LA fires. 

The actress, 47, who plays Alpha Mum Amanda in the upcoming comedy spin-off, lives in Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles with her artist partner Dinos Chapman and their two sons.

And though the family home managed to avoid being destroyed by the flames, which Lucy described in a new interview as ‘shocking and devastating’, Lucy is torn on whether to stay put or to return to her native London for good.

Speaking in a new interview ahead of her TV return, Lucy detailed her ‘chaotic’ home life, with the star having relocated to London for filming with one son, while her partner stayed in LA with the other.  

Opening up about the ordeal that has hit Los Angeles, she told the The Times: ‘It was shocking and devastating for a lot of friends. It’s like imagining east London flattened – schools, neighbourhoods just gone. How do you get that back? It’s going to be years and years.’

She also told how she has ensured her partner and son, who remained in LA have their belongs packed in case they needed to ‘run out the door again’, after the family were forced to escape to Joshua Tree desert last month.

Amandaland star Lucy Punch has opened up on having to flee her US home after it was caught up in the LA fires 

The actress, 47, who plays Alpha Mum Amanda in the upcoming comedy spin-off, lives in Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles with her artist partner Dinos Chapman and their two sons

The TV star admitted that with the LA fires and the recent voting of Donald Trump into office, she is now considering whether to quit the US after almost 20 years as she told how she’s struggling to ‘commit’ to a place. 

Lucy, who moved to LA  in 2006, shared: ‘I’ve always got one foot out the door, wherever I am. I never got round to getting a green card. I’m on these rolling visas, which is ridiculous: I have a home there and I have two American children. But I can’t commit to anywhere. I get itchy feet. I like being a little bit here and a little bit there.’ 

Elsewhere, Lucy – whose character Amanda suffers a dramatic fall from grace as she navigates her single status, acid-tongued mother and the challenges of raising two teenagers – went on to detail how school mum life in the states compares to that in London.

When asked if the school-gates culture is similar, she remarked: ‘Oh, absolutely. And the WhatsApps are off the scale — they are insane. I’d say they are probably 50 per cent Amandas. Everyone’s very glossy.’

However, she was rather relieved to learn that none of her fellow LA mums watch Motherland as she noted that the British trait of moaning about ones kids ‘might not go down too well’.

Raised in south-west London, actress Lucy first fell in love with the profession at her private school and soon found work in the sitcom Let Them Eat Cake, followed by episodes of Poirot and Midsomer Murders and a role as a receptionist in Doc Martin.

In 2006 she moved to LA to work on a TV show, The Class, but when that was cancelled the work dried up.

She was contemplating giving it all up – her mother had suggested becoming a chiropodist – when Nicole Kidman dropped out of Woody Allen’s 2010 film You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger and Lucy won her scene-stealing role of a prosтιтute.

Though the family home managed to avoid being destroyed by the flames, which Lucy described in a new interview as ‘shocking and devastating’, Lucy is torn on whether to stay put or to return to her native London for good

Opening up about the ordeal that has hit Los Angeles, she told the The Times : ‘It was shocking and devastating for a lot of friends. It’s like imagining east London flattened – schools, neighbourhoods just gone. How do you get that back? It’s going to be years and years’

The TV star admitted that with the LA fires and the recent voting of Donald Trump into office, she is now considering whether to quit the US after almost 20 years as she told how she’s struggling to ‘commit’ to a place

Read More Amandaland’s Lucy Punch joins Amanda Holden and Sharon Horgan at Motherland spin-off event

Lucy is set to thrill fans as she returns to yummy mummy character Amanda following the end of the hugely successful Motherland series in 2022.

After her divorce, Amanda has had to downsize and up sticks to South Harlesden, or as the Estate Agent calls it SoHa (definitely not the area around Wormwood Scrubs prison).

With both Manus and Georgie now at secondary school, Amanda has to try and get her head around raising teenagers, dealing with modern motherhood horrors like teenage drinking, fake Instagram accounts and eco-anxiety.

But not even a woman as certain of her parenting as Amanda can deal with these nightmares alone.

Then there’s Amanda’s mother Felicity, who is constantly around, and completely in denial that she is, in fact, lonely.

Theirs is a slightly unhealthy co-dependent relationship based on backhanded compliments and veiled snipes about her new home.

After a brief spell of freedom, Anne (Philippa Dunne) is sucked back into being Amanda’s minion to help her navigate the social scene with the other parents at the children’s new school.

Co-Founder of Merman, Sharon Horgan said: ‘We’re delighted to be working with the BBC and with this incredible cast. 

Lucy, who moved to LA in 2006, shared: ‘I’ve always got one foot out the door, wherever I am. I never got round to getting a green card. I’m on these rolling visas, which is ridiculous’ [pictured in LA in 2019]

Lucy is set to thrill fans as she returns to yummy mummy character Amanda following the end of the hugely successful Motherland series in 2022

After her divorce, Amanda has had to downsize and up sticks to South Harlesden, or as the Estate Agent calls it SoHa (definitely not the area around Wormwood Scrubs prison)

‘Motherland took off in a way that none of us were expecting, and it’s just so exciting that we will continue to make this next chapter of parenthood and friendship.

‘We have new parents, a new school and new problems to look forward to. We can’t wait to get going on it’.

Clelia Mountford, Co-Founder of Merman says: ‘We’re delighted to be bringing Amandaland to the BBC and to share the next chapter of Amanda’s story.

‘Viewers are in for a treat! It’s been so rewarding seeing how the complexity of Amanda’s character has developed; the relationship with her mother, life as a single parent and her fledgling career.

‘It’s a joy to be working with such incredible comedy talent such as Lucy, Joanna and Phillipa once more.’

The show was created by Sharon Horgan, Graham Linehan, Helen Serafinowicz and Holly Walsh and also starred Anna Maxwell Martin, Diane Morgan, Paul Ready and Tanya Moodie.