Bryan Brown and Rachel Ward are evacuated and forced to relocate their daughter's wedding after raging bushfires threatened to burn down their home
- Rachel Ward and Bryan Brown's farm threatened was threatened by bushfires
- They decided to move daughter's wedding after neighbour's house burned down
- Daughter's wedding planned for Saturday had to be moved to Sydney
- Deadly Nambucca Valley bushfire killed two people and destroyed 19 homes
Bryan Brown and Rachel Ward were forced to flee their home and find a new location for their daughter's wedding after devastating bushfires ravaged their neighbourhood.
The couple were evacuated a week ago from their Nambucca Valley farm, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.
The celebrity couple had been planning to use their property on the mid-north coast of NSW to host their daughter's wedding.
Instead actress Matilda Brown and her fiance, chef Scott Gooding, wed at a venue in Sydney on Saturday.
Iconic actors Bryan Brown (left) and Rachel Ward (right) were forced to abandon plans to celebrate their daughter's wedding at their Nambucca Valley farm on Saturday after fires devastated the area destroying 19 homes and killing two people
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Matilda Brown (right) and fiance Scott Gooding (left) have moved their nuptials to Sydney and are just thankful that the family is safe
Emergency services confirmed last Wednesday that 19 homes had been lost in the Nambucca Valley and two people had been killed as deadly bushfires ripped through the area.
The area around the property was scorched and nearby homes were destroyed.
Gooding, who starred on My Kitchen Rules in 2013, and has gone on to a successful career as a personal trainer and chef, said he had no choice but to move the wedding.
'The family is safe and that is the most important thing,' he told the Sydney Morning Herald.
Devastating fires have ripped through NSW destroying 64 homes in the past week alone. Pictured is the Gospers Mountain fire northwest of Sydney on Friday
Piles of bushfire ash wash up on Nambucca beaches on Friday near the Nambucca Valley where Rachel Ward and Bryan Brown have their farm
'But a house 300 metres away from where we were planning to get married was lost in the fires, we really had no choice but to move it given what has happened up there,'
Rachel Ward, 61, met her husband Bryan 72, on the set of the classic Australian drama The Thorn Birds in 1983 - where their sexual chemistry was immediately apparent.
They went on to have three children: Rose, Matilda and Joseph.
Matilda, who starred alongside her famous father in the 2014 short film series Lessons from the Grave, gave birth to her first child in May, a baby boy named Zan, making the iconic couple grandparents for the first time.
Gooding also has a ten-year-old son from a previous relationship and has opened his own restaurant in Sydney's Miranda called The Good Place.
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