TV presenter living on the streets

acook

Check this story out:

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/generalnews/display.var.%201901249.0.former_tv_star_reduced_to_living_rough_in_hove.php

This guy was a 100k TV presenter who took on too much credit card debt. The cards swallowed him up, destroyed his marriage and forced him to sell his house. Now he lives on a park bench in Brighton.

Cut the cuts up, people, in the end, credit only causes misery.

Alice

icefall

wow just read the link

feel sorry for this man

PasturesNew

Yes. As a single person he's pretty much on his own. Nobody has an obligation to find or provide him with anywhere to live.

Once you've run out of sofas to blag for the night, it's just the streets left.

And now what. Now, even though his CV renders him almost unemployable, he can't get a job as he has no home. Probably doesn't even get benefits because of that.

Poor bloke. If I lived down that way and had space I'd give him a roof over his head.

mr_tickle_2

acook wrote: »

Cut the cuts up, people, in the end, credit only causes misery.

That's a bit of a sweeping statement.
Not all credit is bad. Only bad credit is bad.

dmg24

I am not saying that the story is false, but just keep in mind that not everything you read in the press is 100% accurate.

Clariman

dmg24 wrote: »

I am not saying that the story is false, but just keep in mind that not everything you read in the press is 100% accurate.

It is certainly very sad. However, I get the feeling that there may be more to the story than meets the eye. How did he go from £50K of debts which could/should have been cleared by selling the family home .... then up to £250K debts?

Clariman

lisyloo

I do have some sympathy but I'm old enough to remember pre-credit days when if you wanted something you saved up.

If you can't afford something then you shouldn't have it.

cm233lh

"...Mr Mitchell and his wife divorced in 2005."

I wonder how much of his debt came from credit cards and how much of it came from the cost of divorce.