Billy Noke screams at passing cyclists on Crown Street, “How can we just go about our lives knowing Robin Thicke has lost his house?”

Mr Noke openly weeps as he pleads for crowdfunding to help the celebrity victims of the California fires. “Those poor celebs. They need our help! Why isn’t anyone helping them?”

Mr Noke falls to the ground, collapsing under an impossible weight of emotion. It may be half a world away but Billy Noke feels the pain of the stars who have lost their mansions in the California fires, and he’s emploring everyone to donate to help.

He becomes almost catatonic, “What happens if Miley Cyrus never releases another single? How will we go on?”

How will we go on?

Celebs took to social media to fret about their luxury homes being in harm’s way — and later, some returned home to find their houses had not been spared.

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West reportedly hired a team of ‘private firefighters’ to help save their mansion and their neighbours’ homes from the fires, the team digging out trenches to combat the fire.

But others haven’t been so lucky. Singer Miley Cyrus shared an emotional message on Twitter revealing she had lost her home.

300 actor Gerard Butler shared this startling photo, having returned to his Malibu home to find it had been destroyed by the fire.

How will we go on?

Mr Noke is now under observation at St Vincent’s.