Fears grow for homeless Yahoo Serious, 72, as he VANISHES with his dog after he was evicted for squatting – with the only clue to his fate being the very bizarre items he’s left behind in his car full of junk
Yahoo Serious has not been seen since he was finally evicted last week from a multi-million-dollar Palm Beach home where he had been illegally squatting.
The iconic Australian Hollywood star was forced to flee with his Jack Russell terrier Jingle after police were called to help his landlord kick him out last Tuesday.
Daily Mail can now reveal he’s left an array of bizarre items behind in his ageing soft-top car which lies abandoned outside the home and contains all his worldly goods.
On Monday, his broken-down BMW, which is unable to be started, was still parked at the property on Barrenjoey Road on Sydney’s northern beaches.
New pictures revealed he had an oddball collection of items stashed inside the car, including a length of rope, a cooking pot, a couch pillow, Ugg boots, and an Esky.
A Kennards Hire box was labelled ‘For Jingle Dog’, and apparently contained the pet’s worm and tick tablets, the dog’s papers, and ‘wandering Jew allergy cream’.
Wandering Jew is another name for the Spiderwort plant, which is commonly found in Sydney and can cause canine dermatitis.
Serious, 72, and Jingle have not been seen since they were kicked out by landlord Margie Charlton, who holds power of attorney for the property’s owner, Charles Phillip Porter.
The actor was seen with his dog Jingle outside the Palm Beach home in June
Despite being evicted, Serious’ car is still parked at the Barrenjoey Road property
The broken-down BMW is filled with junk, including this box full of Jingle’s medication
A length of rope, a cooking pot, and a sofa cushion were visible in the front of the car
Mr Porter, who is in his 90s and suffers from dementia, is in a nursing home.
Ms Charlton had allowed Serious to live in the basement when she found him homeless at Palm Beach in recent years, under the proviso that when her lifelong family friend Mr Porter went into a care facility, she would need to sell the property to pay for his fees.
But when that time came, Serious refused to leave, and moved from the basement into the main part of the house, barricading himself in.
Serious had been ordered by the courts to vacate the property by August 4, but did not leave until August 5 after Margie confronted him.
Even then, Serious didn’t go quietly.
‘He called the police and said I was being violent,’ Ms Charlton told the Daily Mail. ‘The police came and they said, “No, mate, you’re out. You gotta leave.”‘
Speaking to the Daily Mail last week, she confirmed that he had finally left.
The Aussie actor – who was briefly a huge Hollywood comedy star in the 1980s and early 1990s – allegedly left a trail of destruction in his wake.
Serious appears to have vanished after cops helped turf him out last week
Serious has left the driver’s side free of clutter, but the rest of the car is filled to the roof with bizarre items of junk
A pair of well-worn Ugg boot slippers were visible among the boxes in the back seat
It was littered with plastic carrier bags and paper shopping bags, as well as a blue Esky
‘He has left the house in a filthy state,’ Ms Charlton said. ‘There is rotting food, it’s disgusting.’
After Serious finally left the property, Ms Charlton had to call in an army of friends for the clean-up operation and removed ‘six truckloads of stuff’, she said.
But she is relieved the ordeal is finally over after lengthy legal battles and tense confrontations with the star over the home.
In July, she told Daily Mail that she needed to sell the property to help pay for Mr Porter’s nursing home fees, which were $70,000 and rising.
‘Now, we can clean it up and get it up for sale,’ she said last Wednesday. ‘It should have gone on the market in June last year.’
Ms Charlton confronted Serious last week at the home in front of TV cameras with a journalist from A Current Affair, but he still refused to leave.
‘You’ve been living in this property while Margie’s been trying to sell it to pay for Phillip’s aged care,’ reporter Pippa Bradshaw told the Young Einstein star.
‘He’s got dementia, he can sell the property,’ Serious replied.
Mr Porter’s home on Barrenjoey Road, on Sydney’s ritzy northern beaches
Ms Charlton was finally successful in evicting the Aussie actor last week
When told that Ms Charlton had been unable to sell the property while Serious was occupying it, he insisted he was not squatting but was ‘sick.’
‘I’m not squatting – [I’m] surviving,’ Serious said.
‘Look at the weather out there – it’s really, really dangerous.’
It’s not known where Serious is now, but he has long-standing ties to the Palm Beach area and used to share a home in the suburb with his former wife, Lulu.
Without his vehicle, there are grave fears for where he and Jingle are taking shelter.
Sydney has been battered by rainstorms since his departure from Mr Porter’s home, with more wet, cold weather predicted this week.
In comments under Daily Mail’s coverage, many have slammed Serious’ behaviour – but many feel sorry for his dog.
Speaking to the Daily Mail in July, Serious denied that he was squatting at the property, despite a tribunal hearing having given him a deadline to vacate.
Serious has long had ties to the Palm Beach area, but was nowhere to be seen on Monday
‘You’ve got it all wrong,’ he insisted, as he took his BMW to a local mechanic after experiencing radiator problems.
In March, the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal heard Serious used to live in the granny flat beneath the dilapidated property, which stands among the mansions overlooking picturesque Pittwater.
The tribunal was told the owner had allowed Serious to move into the granny flat, as the former screen star had previously been living rough in his ageing BMW sedan, but he moved into the main house when Mr Porter was put into care.
On April 24, the tribunal initially gave Serious six weeks to move out, Ms Charlton told Daily Mail.
‘But his lawyer said he needed 12 weeks because he’s a sick man with lymphoma,’ she said.
Serious – and his wild haircut at the time – became suddenly famous when he starred in 1988’s Young Einstein movie and later, Reckless Kelly in 1993.
