2 h. ago Michael Sheen pays off £1m of neighbours’ debts in his hometown in Wales

‘It couldn’t be more real, how much people are hurting’ said the Welsh actor

Economics

6 h. ago ‘It’s not because I want people to think I’m great’: Michael Sheen on paying off £1m of his neighbours’ debts

The actor grew up poor, got rich, then lost everything backing the 2019 Homeless World Cup. Now he’s giving away more of his money to help 900 total strangers. Doesn’t he think he’s done enough?Michael Sheen walks into a post office in Port Talbot and asks to withdraw £100,000. “That would be nice,” says the young woman behind the till. Then it dawns on her that he’s not joking. “Can I do £100,000?” she asks her colleague. She cannot.“I loved that so much. She was really funny,” says Sheen. Filmed for a new Channel 4 documentary, Michael Sheen’s Secret Million Pound Giveaway, this was part of the actor’s two-year project to use £100,000 of his own money to buy £1m worth of debt, owed by about 900 people in south Wales – and immediately cancel it. Continue reading...

Economics

10 h. ago Michael Sheen says 'I can't walk away' as he uses his own money to write off £1m of people's debts

Michael Sheen appears in a new Channel 4 documentary, where he uses his own money to buy £1m worth of consumer debt and then writes it off to help people in his local community

Economics

11 h. ago ‘People are hurting’, says Michael Sheen in documentary where he writes off debt

The actor writes off £1 million of consumer debt using his own money in a new Channel 4 programme.

Politics

26 h. ago ‘It’s been really profound’: artists Joel Meyerowitz and Maggie Barrett on laying bare their marriage on film

Photographer Meyerowitz, 87, and artist and writer Barrett, 78, invited two documentary-makers into their lives for a year. The result, Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other, is an intimate portrait that all couples should seeWe might all have domestic arguments that demand to be preserved on film for their drama, but few of them would ever live up to the intensity, eloquence and glamour of the barneys between American photographer Joel Meyerowitz and his English wife, novelist and artist Maggie Barrett.The best (or worst) of those clashes comes toward the end of the extraordinary, intimate documentary of Joel and Maggie’s marriage, aptly entitled Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other (their own private update on “till death us do part”). In that final set-to, Maggie conjures all the frustrations of the 30 years they have been together – years in which Joel has become ever more world-famous and celebrated as a photographer, and she has seen her novels rejected by publish...

Culture

67 h. ago Michael Sheen's net worth and how he affords to write off debt in Channel 4 show

Michael Sheen's Secret Million Pound Giveaway will see the actor write off a million pounds worth of debt for people in Wales - but how much is his own net worth?

Politics

3 d. ago Hollywood actor clears £1m of debt for 900 people with his own money in heartwarming gesture

The actor 55, who has been making headlines for his kind gestures recently, started a debt acquisition company to help people in south Wales.

Economics

4 d. ago Michael Sheen writes off £1m worth of debt for people as he takes on 'bizarre' system

Michael Sheen's Secret Million Pound Giveaway will air on Channel 4 next week and the documentary sees the acclaimed actor set out to help people who have debt

Economics

5 d. ago The heartbreaking moment in a Welsh cafe that made Michael Sheen carry on with 'secret' debt plan

Presenter Alex Jones of The One Show on BBC described the actor's decision to help others as a "wonderful thing"

Politics

6 d. ago Terrifying moment shoppers leap out of the way as car speeds down the street in Mannheim

The CCTV footage shows a black car, which rammed into a crowd of people in Mannheim leaving two dead and at least 14 injured, hurtling through the city as pedestrians stare on.

Events

9 d. ago Imagine if the BBC paid the son of an IRA terrorist to narrate a documentary, writes STEPHEN POLLARD

If such behaviour had been exposed, it would have been a catastrophe for the BBC, would likely have led to prosecutions and might even have caused the collapse of the Corporation.

Events

1 week ago 4 people hurt as shots are fired near a courthouse in western Germany

Police say four people were injured when shots were fired near a courthouse in western Germany

Events

1 week ago It's not enough for the BBC to take down this Gaza documentary. If there's been payments to Hamas terrorists, then those to blame MUST go, writes Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister SHARREN HASKEL

Far from being an even-handed documentary by a broadcaster that prides itself on an unbiased approach, this production was a shameless piece of propaganda for the thugs of Hamas.

Politics

2 w. ago Was licence fee payers' cash given to Hamas? Kemi Badenoch writes to BBC boss demanding action over Gaza documentary scandal

In an excoriating letter seen by the Daily Mail to BBC chief Tim Davie, Mrs Badenoch called for an inquiry to investigate any 'potential collusion with Hamas' and 'the possibility of payment' to its officials.

Economics

2 w. ago Delta Airlines flight flips over on landing at Toronto's Pearson Airport and 8 people are hurt

A Delta Airlines plane has flipped upon arrival at Toronto’s Pearson Airport and at least eight people are injured

Transport