Michael Sheen writes off £1m of debt for 900 people

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British actor Michael Sheen has bought and written off his neighbours' debts totalling £1m. Sheen has long been keen to regulate the UK's credit system, urging the British government to pass a fair banking law.

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Michael Sheen spent his own money to write off $1.86 million of neighbours’ debts

Actor Michael Sheen has bought £1 million of his neighbours’ debts and written them off using £100,000 of his own money.

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Michael Sheen's Secret Million Pound Giveaway

In an audacious campaign to demand better borrowing, Michael Sheen buys £1m of debt from hundreds of people in Wales, and then he writes it all off

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Michael Sheen's private home in Port Talbot where he pays off neighbours' £1m debts

Michael Sheen has become a local hero after paying off debts to neighbours his beloved Port Talbot, the town in Wales where he now lives with wife, Anna Lundberg, and their two young children. The Staged actor will open up about the journey in his new documentary, Michael Sheen's secret million-pound giveaway…

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Why Michael Sheen used $130,000 of his own money to buy $1.2m worth of debt owed by people in his hometown

Michael Sheen used his own money to pay off £1 million in debt for his neighbors in his Welsh hometown.Eamonn M. McCormack/Getty ImagesMichael Sheen used £100,000 ($130,000) of his own money to buy £1 million ($1.2 m) worth of his neighbors' debts.He made the documentary "Michael Sheen's Secret Million Pound Giveaway," to raise awareness of credit debt. Sheen said that using his own money proves he's "serious" about solving the issue of credit d…

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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