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Hannah Roberts

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

Welsh actor Michael Sheen became emotional as he said the people in his local community were “hurting” in a new documentary where he writes off £1 million of consumer debt with his own money.

The Good Omens actor, 56, uses £100,000 to buy approximately 900 personal debts – amounting to £1 million – for people living in South Wales, in the Channel 4 programme.

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