A husband who disappears on shopping trips at least twice a day has been warned to curb his spending addiction as it is preventing his wife from taking her sick father to America. Their story, which is explored in the first episode of the second series of Channel 4's Secret Spenders, former NHS nurse, Rae and her husband MK live rent-free in Rae's family home as she cares for her sick father.
In emotional scenes, Rae breaks down in tears to presenter Anita Rani, saying that "it would mean everything" to take her father to California. She expl;ains that since Rae's mother passed away two years ago, life has been difficult for the family and with her father being ill, she wants to reunite him with his brother, whom he hasn't seen for years and is also unwell.
Near the start of the episode, MK tells Anita: "I don't have the word 'saving' in my vocabulary," and from that moment on, viewers know they are set to witness a serial spender. Financial advisors Peter Komolafe and Anna Whitehouse are on hand to give MK and Rae a financial makeover that would save them tens of thousands of pounds. That's not to say they haven't got their work cut out though...
