Actor Christopher Lloyd, most (only?) famous for the role of Doc Brown in Back to the Future, had his house in Montecito, California destroyed by the recent Southern California wildfire.

The house, Lloyd’s principal residence, was listed for sale in the spring of 2007 at $11.3 million but recently was withdrawn from the market while he made upgrades. He owns a second, smaller, home in Montecito that is still on the market for $3.6 million and was not affected by the blaze.
Lloyd’s fire-damaged property  is one of Montecito’s more unusual homes. The 5,500-square-foot main house has one bedroom, and there is a separate guesthouse. The house was built in 1972 from adobe bricks made on-site. And the living room and bedroom share an outdoor area with a large patio and stone-lined reflecting pool. [LA Times]

The “Tea Fire” which started at the privately owned Tea Garden Estate, about a mile north of Santa Barbara’s Westmont College, ripped through an area that Oprah Winfrey, Michael Douglas, Rob Lowe and other celebrities call home. [CNN]

I’m not going to make a Back to the Future joke here, because it would be way too obvious and everyone’s probably already beaten me to it.  And that’s messed up, the guy’s house burned down.  But I think I speak for everyone when I say: It should’ve been you, Oprah.

Nick Nolte narrowly escaped a fire that caused $1.5 million worth of damage at his Malibu home yesterday.  The blaze grew, I imagine, when an angry Nolte hurled a snifter of Wild Turkey at the hibachi flames which devoured his favorite backscratcher.

The only injuries the 67-year-old actor sustained were smoke inhalation and a scrape to his arm, but he did not go to hospital for treatment.
The electrical fire started in the living room, said fire Inspector Frank Garrido.
Nolte smelt smoke from upstairs and broke a window to escape before tackling the blaze. [And then punching it in the mouth -Ed.]
“Nick Nolte was there apparently with a water hose trying to extinguish the fire himself and of course we came to help him out,” said Inspector James Barnes of the Los Angeles fire department. Damage was caused to the structure and contents of the house, but the building was not destroyed, he added.  [BBC]

And if he wasn’t in his underwear that whole time I will drink my own piss.  My sources also tell me the fire consumed a priceless collection of showbiz memorabilia and bar coasters, but was contained before it could take Terrence, the stuffed armadillo Nolte stabbed to death behind a saloon outside Odessa.