17 March 2025 - Michael Sheen Pays off £1m Worth of Debt for Hundreds of People in Wales
Michael Sheen spent his own money to write off $1.3 million of neighbors’ debts
Issy Ronald (CNN, 10/03/2025)
Sheen, best known for his roles in “The Queen,” “Frost/Nixon,” “Masters of Sex” and “Good Omens,” first embarked on his “debt heist” two years ago, with the twin aims of helping 900 people in his native South Wales and spotlighting the perils of a debt industry that demands sky-high interest rates on short-term loans.
Sheen says banks force people to use loan sharks
Charlie Buckland & Rowenna Hoskin (BBC News,10/03/2025)
Speaking on the Channel 4 documentary Michael Sheen's Secret Million Pound Giveaway, Sheen said him writing off £1m-worth of people's debts was a "drop in the ocean".
Michael Sheen explains how he wrote off £1 million of people's debt in powerful documentary
Lidia Molina-Whyte (Radio Times, 05/03/2025)
Michael Sheen's upcoming Channel 4 documentary, Michael Sheen’s Secret Million Pound Giveaway, is set to shed light on how finance companies are profiting from some of society's most vulnerable and why people are getting into spirals of debt in the first place.
‘It’s not because I want people to think I’m great’: Michael Sheen on paying off £1m of his neighbours’ debts
Emine Saner (The Guardian, 10/03/2025)
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.
Micheal Sheen in 2010. Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
