Montecito, home to Ellen DeGeneres, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, ordered to evacuate due to mudslides
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DeGeneres shared a video of hazardous conditions and an overflowing creek in her backyard on Instagram and was prepared to evacuate her home near Santa Barbara.
"Montecito is under complete evacuation, the entire town," she said. "This is the five-year anniversary from the fire and mudslides that killed so many people and people lost their homes, their lives. This is crazy … on the five-year anniversary. We are having unprecedented rain." Tracy Wright is an entertainment writer for Fox News Digital. Send story tips to tracy.wright@fox.com.
The town is also home to Katy Perry, Chris Pratt, Ariana Grande and Jennifer Aniston. Montecito local, Rob Lowe, made his directorial debut with the 2020 movie "Madness in the Hills." It delved into the devastating 2018 mudslides which killed 23 people after the Thomas Fire burned for more than one month in 2017. A post shared by Ellen DeGeneres (@ellendegeneres)