TV presenter Mile Goldman as spoken out for the first time since the devastating house fire while he was asleep with his wife and their one-year-old son upstairs
Big Brother star Mike Goldman has heartbreakingly revealed his house has burnt down and shared the devastating impact on his family. The voice-over legend, 52, was asleep with his wife Bianca Zouppas–Goldman, and their one–year–old son, Jagger, when their home went up in flames.
Mike, who narrates the Australian version of the hit social experiment, said he feared his family wouldn’t be alive today if his two-storey home in Brisbane didn’t have smoke alarms.
He has credited the home safety device with saving their lives as he spoke of the terrifying experience for the first time. Mike harrowingly said: “If the [smoke] alarm hadn’t gone off, I wouldn’t be here today. I’m alive because of it.”
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The affects of such a life changing incident have stayed with him as he shared: “I still wake up at night, and I’m sleeping like a real light sleeper at the moment. I never used to be a light sleeper.
“And I’m waking up sometimes and I’m thinking, ‘I think I see smoke, I think I smell smoke’, and I’m like, ‘calm down’.” Mike said the fire was “such an intense experience” as he recalled to the Courier–Mail details of the night that destroyed his home.
He said it is always in the back of his mind as he remembers how it could have had a very different ending. Mike shared how he was alerted to the fire through his smoke alarm.
Initially, he thought the batteries just need changing but then heard the fire. Mike saw smoke and said the lights in his home wouldn’t turn on or off.
He still doesn’t know what caused the blaze to the home two months ago, but thankfully his house is insured. The TV star has even teamed up with Checktember, a national smoke alarm safety campaign Down Under.
He is urging everyone to check their smoke alarm and take it “seriously”. Mike shot to fame thanks to his role as the famous narrator on the Australian version of Big Brother in the early 2000s.
He worked on the hit reality show for years from 2001 to 2014. The TV presenter also hosted his own spin-off series, Up Late, which featured the live evictions from the house.
Since leaving Big Brother, Mike has appeared on the Tiger King-inspire series Joe vs. Carole and NBC Universal’s Young Rock. He met his wife Bianca in an acting class in 2016 where they fell in love.
They went on to marry in 2019 and welcomed their first child Jagger in May last year. Prior to them welcoming their son through IVF, Bianca had bravely documented their complications with trying to conceive.
She opened up to fans on her endometriosis and Mike’s low sperm count on her series IVF – What Your Mumma Went Through.
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Source: Mirror
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