Brandon “Bug” Hall, who played Alfalfa in 1994’s The Little Rascals, says his wife’s refusal to wear pants helped convince him she’d be a good mother.
“I wouldn’t have married my wife if she desired to wear pants,” Hall said. He described her modesty as an indicator of her suitability for motherhood. He married Jill DeGroff in 2017.
Hall converted to Catholicism in 2013 and left acting around 2020 to 2021. He’s said entertainment work conflicted with his faith, and he now describes himself as a “radical Catholic extremist” and “medieval moralist.”
After leaving Hollywood, Hall donated most of his savings and possessions and moved his family to rural Arkansas. He’s described taking a “vow of poverty” and trying to minimize the family’s need for income. The family homeschools, and he’s said he’ll “strongly discourage” his children from attending college.
His public statements about his daughters have followed similar gender divisions. In 2024, after calling his newborn son his “heir,” Hall responded to a comment about his daughters by writing, “I said heir, not dishwasher.”