Little Rascals child star gives up entire career earnings to live in poverty as 'radical extremist'
Thirty years on from starring in hit family film The Little Rascals, Brandon 'Bug' Hall's life looks very different.
After appearing in the 1994 family film, which followed the adventures of a band of neighbourhood kids, Hall has since given up all the money he made as a child actor as part of ‘a vow of poverty’.
Nearly six years on from his arrest for allegedly huffing air duster cans, the 40-year-old is now living off-grid as ‘a radical Catholic extremist’.
Still referring to himself as a ‘Rascal’ in his X bio, Hall, also labels himself as a ‘medieval moralist’, ‘patriarch of six’ and ‘self-cancelled Emmy nominee’. He includes: “Rigid is the wood of the Cross.”
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A YouTube video shared by him in April 2025 explained that he ‘loved film and TV’ and told ‘our Lord’ that it was a ‘huge sacrifice’ to give up, but he had since moved on to see it as a ‘big pile of nothing’.
“It really wasn’t all that great of a sacrifice compared to what our Lord had planned to give me in return,” Hall explained.
The former actor said he had been asked by God to ‘take the rest of the step’ into a ‘hidden life’.
“I don’t have any idea what disappearing into the hidden life, the desert of my own life, what that really means or what God’s fully asking of me in that regard,” he added, “but I am certain that he’s asking it.”
He said he had declined offers for a GoFundMe after being evicted from his farm and didn’t have ‘even a shadow of a doubt that God will continue to find interesting and unforeseeable ways of providing’.
The Daily Mail reported that he and his family have now moved to an 80-acre plot near the town of Mountain Home, Arkansas, as he said in the YouTube video that he will have a chapel built there at some point.
“My family will continue to live that radical Catholic extremist life,” Hall added. “I really do think that raising those radical Catholic extremists is the only way to combat our age.”
The former actor said he doesn’t imagine a reason why he would ‘be in the public sphere again’ but ‘whatever God wants, I want too’.
In the interview with the Daily Mail, the dad-of-five said they were now living in a campervan with a water well and a generator, as he has plans to build them a house within six months.
“My goal is to maintain a life as free of any need for an income as possible,” he said. “If there's a financial need that comes up, I'll go take some work or do an odd job, for cash to fulfil that need.”
He and his wife Jill homeschool their kids and will ‘strongly discourage’ them from going to university, as they call formal school mostly ‘nonsense’.
Jess Battison