Michael Sheen has written off £1 million ($1.29 million) of debt for 900 people using £100,000 ($129,000) of his own money.
The Welsh star, famed for roles in Good Omens, Twilight and more recently, A Very Royal Scandal, has started a debt acquisition company to help the group in his native south Wales. The business venture is documented in an upcoming Channel 4 documentary Michael Sheen’s Secret Million Pound Giveaway, set to air in the U.K. next week. Fremantle is handling global distribution for the title under Michael Sheen’s Debt Heist.
Sheen’s show aims to reveal how banks and finance companies are profiting from the country’s most vulnerable.
“The shocking thing is that people have started…
