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Sydney Morning Herald
08-08-2025
- Sydney Morning Herald
Home of former Big Brother narrator goes up in flames
The home of former Big Brother narrator Mike Goldman has caught alight in Brisbane overnight.
The Age
08-08-2025
- The Age
Home of former Big Brother narrator goes up in flames
The home of former Big Brother narrator Mike Goldman has caught alight in Brisbane overnight.
7NEWS
08-08-2025
- 7NEWS
Former Big Brother voice and host Mike Goldman and family narrowly escape devastating house fire in Brisbane
Former Big Brother Australia voice and host Mike Goldman and his family have narrowly escaped a house fire in the early hours of Friday morning. Emergency services were called to the two-storey home on Wordsworth St in Bulimba, Brisbane, just after 4am, where they battled the blaze for two hours. Goldman, who has lived at the property for 25 years, told 7NEWS he was woken by smoke alarms. 'We all woke up from the smoke alarm, just ran outside,' he said. Goldman's wife, Bianca, and one-year-old son Jagger also made it out safely, thanks to the early warning from the home's smoke alarms. 'Luckily our son was in bed with us and as you can see, his room's gone up,' he said. 'I'm just so glad we woke up when we did and my son wasn't asleep in the front room.' Goldman recounted re-entering the burning house, frantically trying to save the family dog, Mr Big. 'Ran back in to save the dog and then the fire brigade showed up and put it out basically,' he said. 'I burnt my hair though, get a bit of a singe on the front. 'He used to be white, now he's very grey. 'I bought this place about 25 years ago and I have a lot of memories here ... hopefully we can save it.' The fire is believed to have started near the garage or fuse box, though investigations are ongoing. 'It was raging downstairs when the fire alarm woke us up ... it didn't actually go upstairs. 'I think it was sort of self-contained in like the laundry garage, whatever's in the walls saved the rest of the house. 'But that's where, you know, we kept a lot of old family albums and stuff like that. 'My wife lost all the, you know, school photos and all that kind of stuff, but, you know, luckily we're alive and we're OK.' Goldman said his family would be staying with his parents while the extent of the damage is assessed. Cannon Hill Fire Station Officer Mark Dutton said specialist fire investigators would work to determine what sparked the blaze.
Daily Mail
07-08-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
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
A former Big Brother voice-over star faced horror on Friday morning when he woke to find his Brisbane home engulfed in flames. 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.
ABC News
07-08-2025
- Entertainment
- ABC News
The home belonged to former voice and host of Big Brother Australia Mike Goldman
Former voice and host of Big Brother Australia Mike Goldman was moved to tears by the ordeal.
