Getty ImagesJeff Bridges and Mel Gibson are among the celebrities who lost their homes in the deadly wildfires that swept through the Los Angeles area.
American actor Bridges, who won an Oscar for Crazy Heart and starred in the TV series The Old Man, lost the home in Malibu that he and his siblings had inherited from their parents.
Oscar-winning movie star Gibson also revealed that his Malibu home was “totally toasted” while he was recording Joe Rogan’s podcast.
A series of wind-driven wildfires in California have killed 11 people, devastated communities, and sent thousands fleeing their properties, including the homes of celebrities. are
Six separate fires have destroyed thousands of structures in and around the city.
Getty ImagesActor Sir Anthony Hopkins, who won two Oscars for The Silence of the Lambs and The Father, also reportedly lost his home in the Pacific Palisades fire.
In a message posted on Instagram, he lamented the “devastation” of the fire, saying “the only thing we take with us is love”.
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Getty ImagesParis Hilton, Billy Crystal, Adam Brody and Milo Ventimiglia are among other celebrities who have lost homes.
Ventimiglia, best known for her roles in Gilmore Girls and Heroes, was filmed returning to her burnt-out home.
“You start thinking about all the memories of different parts of the house and whatnot,” Ventimiglia said on CBS Evening News. “Then you look at your neighbors’ house and everything around, and your heart breaks.”
Ventimiglia and his wife left their home Tuesday and watched on security cameras as the flames took hold.
The 47-year-old admitted that his This Is Us character Jack Pearson suffered from smoke inhalation after his house caught fire on the hit series. “It’s not lost on me, art imitating life,” he said.
Hotel heiress Hilton confirmed earlier this week that she has lost her home in Malibu.
In a new Instagram post on Friday, Hilton uploaded a video. What was left of his house. “The heartbreak is truly indescribable,” she said. “It’s devastating beyond words.
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“It’s not just my story,” she continued. “So many people have lost everything. It’s not just the walls and ceilings – it’s the memories that made these houses a home. These are the pictures, the memories, the irreplaceable pieces of our lives.”
“And yet, in this pain, I know that I am incredibly lucky. My loved ones, my children and my pets are safe.”
Hilton also thanked the “firefighters, first responders and volunteers who are risking their lives to fight these fires”.
Rosie O’Donnell, former co-host of The View, also lost her home in Malibu.
“In Malibu on PCH (Pacific Coast Highway) – the entire beach front house that I lived in – gone,” she wrote in a post on Tik Tok.
Some of the worst destruction occurred in the picturesque enclave of Pacific Palisades, where a wind-driven fire has burned from several hundred acres to more than 15,000 acres since Tuesday.
Part of the neighborhood, which shelters hilly streets against the Santa Monica Mountains and washed up to beaches along the Pacific Ocean, was reduced to ash.
Actor Billy Crystal said in a statement that he and his wife, Janice, were “heartbroken” by the loss of their Pacific Palisades home, where they had lived since 1979.
Getty ImagesWhen Harry Met Sally Starr said in a statement: “We raised our children and grandchildren here.”
“Every inch of our home was filled with love. Beautiful memories that cannot be taken away.
“We are certainly heartbroken but with the love of our children and friends we will get through this.”
A home for Adam Brody, who stars in Netflix’s hit show Nobody Wants This, and the Gossip Girl star’s wife Leighton Meester were also reportedly destroyed.
Jurassic World actress Daniela Pineda also lost her home Saying that she survived because the fire only consumed her dog and laptop.
“I have a pair of shoes named after me,” she said. “I’m grateful to be alive. People really support each other when disaster strikes.”
The Hills stars Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag, who are married, also lost their home in the fire.
“I see our house burning on the security cameras,” Pratt posted.
Montag said: “So our house is on fire and we managed to get out in time, but I keep thinking in my head about the things I should have found, but we’re safe and all that. is more than important, and Spencer is behind me.”
In a later post, she teared up and said she was “so sad that our home is gone” and that she had “lost everything we worked so hard for”.
Singer and Yeh Hum Hain actress Mandy Moore posted a video of the scene of the disaster. As he drew. “Grateful for my family and pets that it was too late last night (and for friends to take us in and bring us clothes and blankets).”
“Honestly, I am in shock and feel numb for the loss of so many people, including my family. My children’s school is gone.”
“Our favorite restaurants, leveled. Many friends and loved ones have also lost everything. Our community is broken but we’re here to rebuild together.”
TV host Ricky Lake told followers she had lost her “dream home”, adding: “I’m grieving with all the people involved in this apocalyptic event.”
Actors John Goodman, Anna Faris and Cary Elwes also reportedly lost their homes.
Getty ImagesMiles Teller, best known for his role in Top Gun: Maverick, and his wife, Kayleigh Sperry, reportedly lost their home in Pacific Palisades.
Posting on Instagram, Sperry shared a picture of a fire and a broken heart emoji.
He urged people to leave water bowls for animals left behind when evacuating their homes.
Other stars forced to flee include Star Wars actor Mark Hamill and Shit Creek actor Eugene Levy.
In a post on Instagram, Hamill called the fire “the worst” since 1993, when 18,000 acres burned, destroying 323 homes in Malibu.
He said he had evacuated his Malibu home “so there at the last minute [were] Small fires on both sides of the road”.
Getty ImagesLevy described the “black and intense” smoke over Temescal Canyon to local media.
“I couldn’t see any flames but the smoke was very thick,” he told the Los Angeles Times.
Jamie Lee Curtis said his home was safe but the situation was “bad”.
He said that it is obvious that there have been terrible fires in many places. This is literally where I live. Everything is the market, I shop, the schools my kids go to. Friends – many, many, many friends – have now lost their homes.”
Curtis and her husband, fellow actor Christopher Guest, pledged $1m (£800,000) to “start a fund in aid of our great city and state and the great people who live and love it”.
Actor Cameron Matheson also shared a clip of his home, which has been reduced to smoking ruins.
“We’re safe. But that’s all that’s left of our beautiful home,” the General Hospital star wrote.
“Our home where our children were raised and where they wanted to be raised someday.”
Legendary songwriter Diane Warren, who composed classic hits including If I Could Turn Back Time and I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing, also lost her home.
He posted a photo of the beach near his home, saying the property he owned for three decades was gone.
Grammy-nominated R&B singer and rapper Jhené Aiko took to Instagram to reveal that her house had been gutted by fire.
“Starting over. My heart is so heavy,” she wrote with a broken heart emoji.
Actor Steve Guttenberg, known for Police Academy, stayed to help the firefighters by moving cars to clear the way for the oncoming fire trucks.
He urged fellow Pacific Palisades residents to leave the keys in their abandoned cars so they could be moved.
Meanwhile, Palisades Charter High School — used in the 1976 horror classic Carrie — has been destroyed.
Oscar nominations have been postponed for two days due to the fire and others. Star-studded events were also cancelled.
Film premieres for Unstoppable, Betterman and Wolfman have been canceled, as have the nominations for the Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Meanwhile, a new fire broke out in the Hollywood Hills on Wednesday night, the Sunset Fire, near where the world famous Hollywood sign nestles in the hills.
Several other celebrities fled the city to escape the fire.
Singer Dua Lipa revealed in a post on her Instagram Stories that she has fled the city and is safe.
He described the scene as “an absolutely devastating and terrifying two days in LA”.
“Thinking of all my friends and townspeople who had to evacuate their homes,” he wrote.
Take that singer, Mark Owen and his family also ran away from the fire. His wife Emma Ferguson said the couple and their children and pets had to leave after waking up to “helicopters, thick black smoke, wind noise, and the uncertainty that our house would survive”. .
“I’m not sure what our next step is. Right now, I’m just heavy and tired,” she said.
Getty ImagesOther celebrities who have lost their homes, according to reports and social media, include:
- John C. Riley
- Kobe Smulders
- John Goldman
- Tina Knowles
- Ricky Lake
- Anna Faris
- Jennifer Gray
- Dennis Crosby
- Melissa Rivers
- Cary Elwes
- Carolyn Murphy
- Sandra Lee
- Ricky Lake
- Bozuma St. John