“Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles” star Madison Hildebrand is finally ready to say goodbye to the cameras.
“I tried to quit with Season 6. With Season 6, I tried to get away from it and it just didn’t happen, but this is real,” Hildebrand told Page Six via phone on Thursday. “This is real.”
“I started in real estate and within six months of trying to sell homes and selling homes is when I started filming the show,” he said. “So it literally has been following my career technically for 12 years and with that it turned into 10 seasons … It’s exhausting, rewarding, but very exhausting on everything — mind, body and soul.”
Hildebrand — who has appeared on the show since its inception in 2006 — announced in a statement Tuesday that he would not be returning to the hit Bravo franchise. He told us that he still hasn’t heard from costars James Harris, Josh Altman, Josh Flagg, David Parnes and Tracy Tutor Maltas — but he also blocked them all on social media.
For now, he plans to “celebrate [his] retirement” from the show with a trip to Fiji and Tonga with friends (“I’m going to shut the world out and go underwater and experience what Mother Nature has to offer!”) and concentrate on expanding his real estate team, The Malibu Life, when he returns home. As for watching “Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles” when it returns? It won’t happen.
“Mainly being so busy, I don’t have a lot of time to watch a lot of TV,” he said. “I don’t even have cable at my house. I do enough real estate during the day — I don’t need to watch the people that I left.”
Instead, the 37-year-old wants to focus on finding someone special in his life, telling us: “I’m at that stage of my life where a family is something that I would like to do sooner than later. And I’m now single, and so I’ve got time to have a serious relationship without the cameras infringing on my personal life, which makes it quite difficult sometimes when people aren’t comfortable in front of the camera and you’re trying to have a relationship and then you’re starting to film and it’s a lot.”