‘Little Rascals’ star asks fans for financial help as he welcomes baby number 1. 6

Former child actor Brandon “Bug” Hall is seeking help months after taking a “vow of poverty” to live off-grid as a “radical Catholic extremist.”

Hall, who is best known for sporting the infamous cow-haired look as the idiot Alfalfa in the 1994 edition of The little rascalshas launched a GoFundMe page asking his fans for financial help as he and his wife prepare to welcome their sixth child. The plea comes just nine months after Hall announced plans to live off-grid on a rural Arkansas property.

“It’s been six years since I self-canceled, and I’ve avoided doing one the entire time,” Hall wrote on the page created on November 5. “I always said it was my choice, and so I didn’t want to take this glorious burden off my shoulders unless there was no other choice. Well, here we are.”

Hall explained that although the family started life on the property, they are missing “a few materials to make things work properly” and have “fallen a little behind on the few bills we have (phone, propane for the RV and unexpected electrical hook-up service charges). »

He wrote that while the family is “excited to be where we are,” they have needs met before welcoming a new baby in less than a month.

“I’m hoping to have everything finalized here in the next couple of weeks so we can work until the baby arrives,” Hall continued. “These are tough times for everyone, and I don’t deserve it any more than anyone else, but I ask in your charity that you help where you can, whether financially, by sharing this, or through prayer and sacrifice for the Hall-Barnetts of the Holy Cross.

As of publication, the GoFundMe campaign has raised more than $23,000 toward a goal of $2,000.

The fundraising campaign comes in the middle of a year when Hall has been making headlines. In January, he spoke with the Daily Mail about his decision to give up the money he made as an actor and live off-grid with his large family.

“My goal is to maintain a life as free as possible from any need for income,” Hall told the outlet in the interview published Jan. 28. “If there is a financial need that arises, I will go to work or do a small job, to get money to meet that need.”

At the time, Hall said his wife and five children — who are being raised in a “radical Catholic extremist life” — lived in an RV with a water well and generator while their home was being built. He also shared that the couple homeschools their children and “strongly discourages” them from going to college because they view formal schooling as “nonsense.”

A few months later, in April, PEOPLE confirmed that Hall had been charged with failing to appear in court for a December 2024 hearing related to an October 2024 traffic citation for not having liability insurance. Hall was previously arrested in Texas in June 2020 for allegedly inhaling a dust remover. The actor was transported to the Parker County Jail for possession with intent to inhale/ingest a volatile chemical, where he was ordered held on $1,500 bond, which he posted the next day. A rep for Hall at the time told EW that the charges against the actor were being dropped.

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Hall has been inactive in Hollywood for several years, with his last credit being 2024. Cabriniwhich was filmed in 2021. In addition to The little rascalsHall has appeared in films such as Hercules, The Big Green is the yearAnd Honey, we’ve shrunkas well as several television shows, including Charm, Castle, And Harley and the Davidsons.

Hall told the Daily Mail that his acting career no longer aligned with his faith and that he chose to leave Hollywood to escape a life of “manipulation.”