Big Brother star's home destroyed by fire as his young family flees to the street - and why the TV identity ran BACK into the inferno
Mike Goldman and his wife Bianca Zouppas-Goldman were sleeping in their bed with their one-year-old son Jagger when their fire alarm went off at around 4am.
Goldman, 52, woke to discover his two-storey Bulimba house was on fire and quickly helped his partner and their baby escape to the street, reported The Courier Mail.
'Luckily our son was in bed with us and as you can see, his room had gone up in smoke. It was raging downstairs,' he told the publication.
'I'm feeling a lot of relief. If we didn't have smoke alarms, it would be a very different story.'
Goldman said he initially thought the fire alarm went off due to faulty batteries, but was stunned to find an inferno quickly spreading through the family home instead.
He and Zouppas-Goldman, 32, then grabbed their child and fled through the smoke to get to the front yard, before Goldman turned and ran back inside to rescue his dog.
'We got in to save the dog. I burnt my hair though. Got a singe on the front. He used to be white but now he's very grey,' Goldman said.
Queensland Fire Department got the fire under control by 6.15am, with a spokesman saying seven crews were called to the Wordsworth St scene.
'The house was well involved in flames, everyone was accounted for. There is significant structure damage and it was contained to one house,' they said.
Fire investigators will attend the scene later in the day with Queensland Police and Queensland Ambulance both on standby—though there appear to be no injuries.
Goldman, who is the son of Grant Goldman and Erica Hammond, shot to fame in the early 2000s when he became the infamous narrator of Big Brother Australia.
He worked on the show from 2001-2014, narrating the program, hosting his own spin-off series Up Late, and assisting with live evictions.
Since pulling the pin on Big Brother, he has appeared in the Tiger King-inspired Stan Original series Joe vs. Carole and NBC Universal's Young Rock.
While he hasn't reprised his role as the voice of Big Brother since it was initially axed in 2014, he has been offered plenty of voice-over work since leaving the show.
He's done work for Discovery and National Geographic documentaries, and also appeared in adverts for Rebel, Telstra and Coles.
Mike is the son of late television and radio personality Grant Goldman and former Channel Seven weather girl Erica Hammond.
Goldman met his wife in an acting class in 2016, with the pair tying the knot in 2019 and welcoming their first child, Jagger via in-vitro fertilisation in May, 2024.
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