The holiday season has ushered in the annual pilgrimage back home for Dallas-Fort Worth natives, many of whom toil year-round in other cities. Among the returning flock are North Texas’ beloved celebrities.
In your local grocer, while perusing for last-minute Thanksgiving sides, you may run into an old classmate or even Owen Wilson. The Dallas-born actor was spotted in a Central Market this week, wearing a cowboy hat and holding a grocery basket.
Or if you’re picking up some takeout, you could stumble upon Dallas rapper BigXthaPlug. He is hosting a turkey drive at Oak Cliff fixture Rudy’s Chicken on Wednesday afternoon, a joint he has visited in the past.
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Last year around the holidays, East Texas singer Kacey Musgraves swung by an Oak Lawn honky tonk to cover a Dolly Parton song. St. Vincent, a Dallas native, surprised patrons of Lake Highlands’ Resident Taqueria, co-owned by her sister, with a DJ set.
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Dallas has become a hot spot for celebrities, both homegrown and outside talent.
Fort Worth-raised hitmaker Taylor Sheridan’s ever-expanding TV universe has used North Texas to film. Billy Bob Thornton was even seen in Dallas’ Knox District this summer for a shoot.
More recently, a Denton ice cream shop has been shut down from Nov. 24 through Dec. 2 for a King Street Productions show, according to the Denton Record-Chronicle.
The company has handled Sheridan’s slate of Paramount+ shows including Landman, Lioness and 1923. It’s unclear what show is being taped, but a crew member told the Record-Chronicle that it was set in Montana. Yellowstone spinoff The Madison follows a New York City family that moves to Montana in the wake of tragedy.
Perhaps The Madison co-stars Michelle Pfeiffer or Matthew Fox will be spotted, but we’ll have to wait and see.
