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Actor Michael Sheen writes off £1m debt from 900 people in South Wales
Michael Sheen during the filming for the Graham Norton Show at BBC Studioworks 6 Television Centre, Wood Lane, London, February 8, 2024
WELSH actor and activist Michael Sheen has written off debts totalling £1 million for 900 people in South Wales in an exposé of how the debt industry works.
In a Channel 4 programme broadcast last night, Mr Sheen uses £100,000 to buy approximately 900 personal debts for people living in South Wales.
The actor set up a debt-buying business of his own after working with a former director of a debt collection company.
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