Eric Braeden is finest recognized to TV viewers because the ruthless Victor Newman on Younger and the Stressed. “Victor” is an acceptable identify as a result of the mustached mogul all the time emerges victorious — someway! Braeden, too, is set to beat the chances. A most cancers survivor, the actor lately misplaced his Los Angeles dwelling within the Pacific Palisades fires.
“I had executed, that day, 42 pages of dialogue at CBS, and drove dwelling,” Braeden mentioned of the day. “Clearly, I used to be conscious of the fires burning within the Palisades however to not the extent.” Initially, he was informed that the winds have been blowing in the other way and his dwelling shouldn’t be impacted. That modified shortly, and when the fires closed in, Braeden and his spouse, together with others of their neighborhood, left in a panic. They packed all the things they might — “necessary papers … you don’t know what to seize first” — and safely evacuated.