"At home in Victoria, we have three dogs, Tosh and Lucy, they're half Blue Heelers, and then there's Torrin, a little Maltese terrier. She gets more attention in the house than anyone else! Yes, I miss them a lot"
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The punchline is the Maltese terrier getting “more attention…than anyone else.” It’s a clean bit of self-deprecation, but also a savvy reframe of celebrity attention. Hemsworth is globally famous; in his own house, the hierarchy is reversed. That inversion humanizes him without trying too hard. The humor is casual, almost tossed off, which makes it read as authentic rather than curated.
“Yes, I miss them a lot” lands because it’s plain. No brand language, no mythmaking, just the basic ache of travel. In context, actors live in cycles of absence: press tours, location shoots, long stretches away from routines that actually stabilize them. The subtext is that the thing he’s nostalgic for isn’t glamour, it’s the ordinary affection and noise of home. It’s also family-safe intimacy: you can reveal softness without revealing too much. Dogs become a proxy for privacy, letting a public figure confess longing while keeping the real boundaries intact.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Hemsworth, Chris. (2026, February 17). At home in Victoria, we have three dogs, Tosh and Lucy, they're half Blue Heelers, and then there's Torrin, a little Maltese terrier. She gets more attention in the house than anyone else! Yes, I miss them a lot. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/at-home-in-victoria-we-have-three-dogs-tosh-and-160140/
Chicago Style
Hemsworth, Chris. "At home in Victoria, we have three dogs, Tosh and Lucy, they're half Blue Heelers, and then there's Torrin, a little Maltese terrier. She gets more attention in the house than anyone else! Yes, I miss them a lot." FixQuotes. February 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/at-home-in-victoria-we-have-three-dogs-tosh-and-160140/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"At home in Victoria, we have three dogs, Tosh and Lucy, they're half Blue Heelers, and then there's Torrin, a little Maltese terrier. She gets more attention in the house than anyone else! Yes, I miss them a lot." FixQuotes, 17 Feb. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/at-home-in-victoria-we-have-three-dogs-tosh-and-160140/. Accessed 1 Mar. 2026.





