‘Your Heart Just Breaks’: Jeff Bridges, Mel Gibson, And Others Become Latest To Lose Homes In Fires

Jeff Bridges, Mel Gibson, and Milo Ventimiglia have become the latest celebrities to share the heartbreaking news that they’ve lost their homes in the Los Angeles wildfires.

Bridges’ representative confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that the Palisades home he shares with his siblings, that originally belonged to his parents, has burned to the ground as firefighters continue to deal with high winds in the area that forced the evacuation of tens of thousands of people in multiple wildfires in Southern California.

The “Big Lebowski” star primarily lives with his wife Susan Geston at their Santa Barbara home, THR noted.

Actor and filmmaker Mel Gibson told NewsNation he wasn’t even in town when the fires consumed his Malibu home because he was in Austin, Texas, recording an episode with Joe Rogan for “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast.

Mel Gibson shared in a NewsNation interview that his Malibu home burnt down in the fires — but his chickens survived.

“We gave them some grain and some water and they’re happy and laying eggs and stuff. So there you go, they weren’t roast chickens.” https://t.co/9fv1yNsO4t pic.twitter.com/drqB6aWFV3

— Variety (@Variety) January 10, 2025

“I was doing the Rogan podcast. … And [I was] kind of ill at ease while we were talking, because I knew my neighborhood was on fire, so I thought, I wonder if my place is still there. But when I got home, sure enough, it wasn’t there,” Gibson said. “I went home and I said to myself, well, at least I haven’t got any of those pesky plumbing problems anymore.”

The 69-year-old actor admitted he was still dealing with the “devastating” impact of losing the home that he’d lived in for more than a decade.

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“It is obviously, it’s kind of devastating. It’s emotional,” the famed actor said. “You live there for a long time, and you had all your stuff. You remember George Carlin talking about your stuff? I had my stuff there, and it’s all like, I’ve been relieved from the burden of my stuff, because it’s all in cinders.”

Gibson remarked on the destruction left by the fire and said he’d never “seen a place so perfectly burnt. You could put it in an urn … I’ve never seen such complete burn.”

“It’s like someone did it on purpose to really destroy every aspect of it,” the actor said. “My place looked like Dresden. It’s emotional and I lived there for about 14, 15 years, so it was home to me. I had a lot of personal things there I can’t get back.”

Actor Milo Ventimiglia and his pregnant wife Jarah Mariano, also lost their Malibu home. Ventimiglia said that his “heart just breaks” thinking of the memories they were going to have in the home, THR noted.

“I think there’s a kind of shock moment where you’re going, ‘Oh, this is real and this is happening,’ and then at a certain point, we just turn it off,” the 47-year-old actor said. “It’s like, what good is it to continue watching, you know. We kind of accepted the loss.”

“You start thinking about all the memories in different parts of the house and whatnot, and then you see your neighbors’ houses and everything kind of around, and your heart just breaks,” he added. “We got good friends and we got good people we’re working with and we’ll make do. Wife and baby and dog, most important.”

Wife of the late TV producer Aaron Spelling, Candy Spelling, said the home they owned for 50 years was gone, TMZ noted.

“I’m in shock and processing this massive loss for our family,” Spelling said. “I am beyond grateful for the memories. It was truly a wonderful gift to have.”

Other celebrities like James Woods, Billy Crystal, Anna Faris, Ricki Lake, Cameron Mathison, and so many others have also shared the sad news that nothing was left of their homes due to the fires, as previously reported.

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