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Caitlyn Jenner loses home in California wildfire

Caitlyn Jenner's Malibu home has allegedly been caught in the Californian wildfires.

The 69-year-old reality star - who was formerly known as Bruce Jenner - was among the people evacuated from their homes in Southern California last week as the Woolsey fire continues to burn out of control, and it has now been claimed that her Malibu hills home has gone up in flames.

According to TMZ, the home - which Caitlyn has lived in since 2015 - sits on top of a ridge overlooking the Malibu beach area, and was caught by the wildfire last Friday as the blaze tore through the area.

Caitlyn was evacuated from the property earlier last week as part of a mandatory evacuation of the Malibu area, which also saw her former daughters-in-law Kim Kardashian West, Khloe Kardashian, and Kourtney Kardashian all forced out of their homes.

Kim - who has North, five; Saint, two; and nine-month-old daughter Chicago with her All Day rapper husband Kanye West - took to Instagram to share the scenes from the blaze as she landed, and revealed she and her family had just an hour to pick up a few of their belongings before leaving.

She wrote: "Pray for Calabasas. Just landed back home and I had one hour to pack up and evacuate our home. Pray everyone is safe."

Eva Longoria to teach son about equality

Eva Longoria is determined to teach her son about "equality". The 43-year-old actress gave birth to her son, Santiago Enrique - whom she has with her husband Jose 'Pepe' Baston - in June this year, and has said she's planning on raising the tot to understand feminist values, and will teach him that "women are equal to men."

She said: "People overthink the word 'feminism'. It means equality. That's it. So, it's not a lot of degrees of equality. It is what it is. So for me to be able to teach him women are equal to men is going to be a big lesson. But it's not only about teaching him, it's about showing him."

The Desperate Housewives star knows that children "emulate" what those around them are doing, so she will make sure she "walks the walk" when it comes to being a feminist.

She added: "And a lot of times, our young kids, they emulate. They're not going to hear what I'm saying. He wants to emulate what I'm doing, so I think it's important for us to walk the walk."

Artistes need help with mental health - Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga has called for more to be done in supporting artistes with mental health conditions.

The 32-year-old singer opened up about her own "mental health crisis" as she accepted a patron award at the SAG-AFTRA Foundation's Patron of the Artists Awards last Thursday, and said she wishes there was a better system in place that could help her and other artistes feel "empowered".

She said: "I began to notice that I would stare off into space and black out for seconds or minutes. I would see flashes of things I was tormented by, experiences that were filed away in my brain with 'I'll deal with you later' for many years because my brain was protecting me, as science teaches us. These were also symptoms of disassociation and PTSD, and I did not have a team that included mental health support.

"[My struggles] later morphed into physical chronic pain, fibromyalgia, panic attacks, acute trauma responses, and debilitating mental spirals that have included suicidal ideation and masochistic behaviour."

The Million Reasons hitmaker suggested that SAG-AFTRA partner with her own Born This Way foundation to implement mental health programmes for union members.

She added: "I wish there had been a system in place to protect and guide me, a system in place to empower me to say no to things I felt I had to do, a system in place to empower me to stay away from toxic work environments or working with people who were of seriously questionable character. There were days that I struggled or couldn't make it to work and I don't want that for other artistes or anyone."