Episode 1 Famous, Rich and Hungry

In the UK, we spend over ?100 billion a year on food. And we have

more choice than ever before. Yet, many people in Britain are going

hungry. You've got to be joking. No. So, now, four famous volunteers... A

bit nervous, actually. Have agreed to help Sport Relief shine a light

on the UK's hidden hungry. What is that? By living with them. Oh, my

God. Exposing the reality of breadline Britain will be

multimillionaire, former Dragon, Theo Phaphitis. There is absolutely

no reason why anybody should be in any form of food poverty in the UK.

Soap star, Cheryl Fergison. When you are sitting at home, food poverty

does not enter your head. Wealthy star of Made in Chelsea, Jamie

Laing. It is weird. I didn't think people in the UK were starving. And

journalist and author, Rachel Johnson. I thought the people we had

was that people were consuming too many calories. The Sport Relief

volunteers will aa ban done their lives of privileged. -- bane done. I

begged on the street. And join the daily millions trying to put enough

food on the table. Really difficult for me to get into my head somebody

only having one meal a day. Surviving on charity hand-outs. If

it wasn't for the food bank 100% we would be hungry. Excuse me, do you

have 9 p? How can Britain be hungry in 2014?

There is no money in the pot. It seems to be one blow after another

and above all of that going on, you are hungry. And if you are famous

and rich... Never take anything in life for granted, ever. How could it

ever feel like home? Rice everywhere. I have been good cop.

Now it is time to be bad cop. As hard as it might be, we have to face

reality. I'm better than this.

Four Sport Relief volunteers are heading to a warehouse in London. I

think my nervousness is tip Paphitis nervousness, which is the unknown. I

like control. All they have been told is to prepare for something

they've never experienced - hunger. I always thought that this country

kind of was the land of plenty, so it would be really shocking and I

would be quite angry to discover a that people are going hungry. I was

sent to a prep when you had your last food at 5.00pm and you next ate

at 7.00am the next day. I remember being hungry every night but I don't

think that's the same as hunger. I packed some trainers. I packed some

Ralph Lauren boots. They will be guided by lily ka pran any of the

Children's Society and community worker, Craig Last -- Lily Caprani

When people say they don't believe people are hungry in this country I

say they need to open their eyes and look at the facts.

Hello. Hi. Hello. Thank you for being here. The reason you are here

is we have a new crisis brewing in the UK. In the last five years, food

prices have gone up but at the same time, wages are static. That's come

at the same time as austerity. Which means that some benefits are

reducing and the most vulnerable people, living on the breadline are

those that are finding their pockets squeezed. We are actually seeing an

increase in the number of families around the country that are really

struggling to even put a decent meal on the table. Are there any families

in which the responsibility adults are failing to feed the children?

How many families don't care about feeding their children a decent

diet? I don't know but I know children are taken into care and

that's one of the reasons. It is not as clear-cut as you might think it

is. What approximate if we go into a family and we find instead spending

money on food they are spending it on cigarettes, alcohol and satellite

TV. That's what we want it find out. The reason we are putting you out

there is because you have privileged lives. The kind of problems these

people experience, you don't. You are make making asumptions. My

parents received benefits. I got free school uniforms and dinners.

What would your family spend on food a month? An inordinate amount. We

appreciate the fact we no longer have to count the pennies. Answer

the question? I wouldn't have a clue. Rachel, in Notting Hill, would

you say you see the effects of hunger? Yes, I do, most women are

starving themselves in order to be thin in the noing hill. They will

pay thousands of pounds to sit in a Spa hoe knell a lake in Austria to

eat gruel and dry bread. What is the most you have spent on a night out

-- in a Spa hotel. I don't know, I would say, maybe, thousands.

?16,000. Probably a few thousand. But their privileged lives are now

over. Does anybody have any food? OK, can we take it from you? These

families have been really brave to open up and share their lives with

you. We won't want any cheating. Have I got to give you everything?

Everything. Thank you. We don't want you to take wallets or phones. Theo,

if I could take yours? I bet yours is heavy. How much money is in

there? About ?725. Cheryl? Snoonchts are you going to take the whole lot?

Roughly how much cash is there? ?300-odd. I don't know. ?about ?70.

All #24e8 be left with is what their host families say they can afford to

spend on food, perperson, per day. -- all they will be left with. How

much is there? ?3. For how long? Three days. You have got to be

joking. No. ?3. 21. ?3. 15. If I'm honest, a smoothie up the

road costs more than that. I don't understand how... That is he a one

cup of coffee in Starbucks. I'm not sure anybody is going to be thinking

I can survive on ?2. 28 for three days.

All the Sport Relief volunteers have is their food budget and an address.

?3. 15 for three days. 3 pods. 15! It's all very well --

?3. 15. It is all very well me telling them and them reading about

it, but it is not until they of live in the family's homes that they'll

understand what it feels like. It could be a council house, no

heating, electricity metre. Look, they have all got satellite dishes.

Theo has been sent to Barnett in north London.

First impressions, all looks good. Very smart, very clean. A bit

nervous, actually. I don't know what to say. Confidence is not something

that Theo usual lilacs. I'll give shall usually lacks. I'll give you

?100,000. He is married with three children. He is ploughed of his

working class roots and what he has managed to achieve. The whole of our

lives until I was nine or ten really was living hand-to-mouth. Will I be

able to cope with that again, after leading the life I have lived since?

I don't know. I am out. Hello. Oh my God. Hello. Welcome, welcome. Well,

that's some welcome. Is she always this excited? No. You are the man

who says to people - how much do you want for this? I'm Theo. Good to

meet you. What is your name Ida. What is your name? Amelia. Good to

meet you too. How old are you? Eight. I'm a lot, lot older. Good to

meet you. Where were you born? Ethiopia. OK. I have been there. I

was born in Cyprus, a little island in the Mediterranean. I came over

when I was six. When did you come over? In 1984. In In Ethiopia

agraduated as airline hostess but I had not a nice experience in my

country. You have been there. Ida was given asylum in the UK and

worked full time until she became pregnant with Amelia. I couldn't

have children and she's my miracle child. Miracle. I was 41. Ida works

part-time and earns ?106 a week. She gets no financial help from Amelia's

father. Maybe I could be better off not working, but I have no role

model for my girl. We have everything. If you need it, let me

know, I'll get T she is my life. Everything goes around her

well-being. She brightens my life. That's her bedroom. So she has given

you her bedroom. This is a lovely room. She has emptied that cupboard

for you so you can put your clothes in here. Ida spends less than ?11 a

week on food. This is our kitchen. There are times I feel dizzy. You

have this migraine and you know it is hunger. She always lets me eat.

Like she doesn't eat any food for the rest of the day. And then I give

her - I leave leftovers on purpose and I keep tricking her saying it is

by accident because she doesn't have anything to eat. So you are telling

me, if she eats, you don't eat? Yeah, she tricks me and I trick her.

So between you, one of you eats, the other one doesn't eat, basically.

It's a little bit immediate, isn't it? All those things you spoke

about, in the first few minutes of meeting everyone, it's quite

disturbing. Quite disturbing. 20 miles away in Croydon... Is that

them Good evening. Hello. I'm Jamie, lovely to meet you. Carly. You know

my face. This is Jessica. Nice to meet you. This is Lily. I swear I

know who you are. I don't know the name. It's you had a Made in

Chelsea. Yeah. I'm going to come and live with you, if that's OK. What do

you think girls? Jamie was set to hipper it a multimillion pound

fortune long before he set foot on the screen. I take so much for

granted, heating mobiles, food. I take everything for granted, it is

just there. His mother agrees. You go into a supermarket and think -

I'll have a bagel and smoke salmon today. You have never, ever had to

struggle. It'll bring you down to earth.

Snool I want it buy something I, I buy it. If I take a girl out to

dinner, you are spending ?200, ?300 quid for dinner. Jamie will now be

living in a two-bedroomed terrace house in Croydon with 40-year-old

single mum, Carly. Carly relies on benefits and spends just under ?30 a

week on food for the whole family. You want to go and show me the

bedroom now? She gets little financial help from her children's

fathers. Do the girls get to eat refer I day? Yes. I always make sure

there is something. Clever concoctions, clever cooking. I can

go without the odd meal but I will not have these going without. To

actually see my mum not eating is kind of upsetting. Because I

sometimes have to say - mum I'm not hungry, have my dinner, because she

is getting shrink and shrink and sh ring and she'll end up like a

lollipop stick. Jamie decides to part with his money. Wicked. I will

put that in the purse. Think I have ?2 left. That's everything I have in

the whole wide world. I'm going to be so brutally honest with you. I

had break toast at a place called Bluebird cafe. The bill came to ?25.

-- I had breakfast. I cannot imagine how tough it is going to be.

Hello. Oh my word. Cheryl will be living with 49-year-old Paul in

Grantham, Lincolnshire. Is there any chance of a cup of tea? I'm being

really, kind of like, cheeky, I know. I might push a biscuit. I'm so

sorry. Mum of one, Cheryl learned to laugh

at adversity growing newspaper London's East End. We were very

working class. There wasn't a lot of money around. Sometimes you would

dodge the milk man a couple of weeks. I know sometimes my parents

went without food to feed us. I know that. Now one of Britain's most

recognisable soap stars, food poverty is something she has left

behind and thinks the rest of the country should have done too. You

can look at Africa and other countries around the world and you

can see what is going on. If it is happening on my own doorstep, that's

shocking. Um, have you eaten yet? Not today,

no. Are you going to eat today, at some point? Probably, why are you

hungry? Sorry, I can't - I'm comprehending here you are telling

me you haven't eaten today. No. Why don't you make something to eat

then? Because I haven't got anything. OK. Do you like milk? How

long has this to last you for? Another week now. Paul spends less

than ?8 a week on food. It's really difficult for me to get

into my head somebody only have one meal a day. So, what are you having?

I might just have chicken soup. What, just the soup? Yes.

In Deptford, south-east London, chicken soup isn't the only thing on

the menu for journalist Rachel Johnson. She is staying with

approximate 53-year-old widow De, and her daughters, Dianne and Chloe.

Have you made this chicken soup? Yes, this is how we find out. She

mixed the in. Usually it has sweetcorn. With you we don't have

any. That's a shame. I would like sweetcorn and grated Cheddar. We

have some cheese. My friend who works in a factory. That's great.

Every so often, I get a little package. It is a cheese-fest. At

home in her four-bedroom house in Notting Hill. Dinner for mum of

three Rachel rarely involves bootleg cheese. I love delicious food. I'm

used to a life that I get what I want when I want it? Why have

aagreed to do this? I'm a journal Is, I need to see what is going on.

What wine do you think you are going to be drinking this week? My husband

says I lack empathy. The Princess will learn to live in the

non-Princess world. I think it will be very interesting. Can I do

anything? ? Dee's financial problems began when she lost her husband in

2008 and two years ago she suffered a stroke. She budgets ?21 a we can

for food. We can't afford the fruit and veg. It is frozen or out of a

tin. Can I look through your cupboards and see what you have got

food-wise? Cereal, onions, dog food. What is that? A Swiss roll. Is that

past its... I don't know. She is a widow with two dependant children.

Actually, what she is bringing them up on, chicken soup and pasta and

frankfurter supper is not really enough to maintain her own health. I

can't say that I think it is going to be very easy for me the next

week. Four British households. I'm hungry,

are you hungry? Now have an extra mouth to feed. . All of a sudden

I've got no appetite whatsoever. It cost ?1. So that's like ?50 woerted

of potatoes. -- worth. Everything is down to the penny,

literally, which is exhausting. That's probably 20 pction's worth.

If the washing machine breaks or the Aga - well not the Aga, but what do

you do? What do you think? Really good. The cheese makes it. Nearly

everyone has been fed but Paul hadn't planned on catering for a

vegetarian. He has managed to rustle something up for Cheryl. That's all

right man, cool. I'm used to making something out of nothing myself

but... What I'm trying to work out why is there no food in your

cupboards. Do you work? No. OK, so you are on benefit. On benefits at

the moment. Is that because you don't want to work? No, I want to

work but I can't work because of my health because two years back I had

what is called a spn Tyne Tynous phneumo this, horax? What That's

what I said. Paul suffered a poll appsed lung and was forced to give

up the painting and decorating job he had. I aplayed for lofts things

but when it gets to my health, they don't want to know. Do you mind me

asking what you learned before Take-home ?700. How much noweds ?50.

50 a week. What? ?50. 50 a week. What douse it to you as a person I

have no self-esteem. When I walk out this door, when I hold my head up,

people don't know nothing, I don't tell them. Paul has eight grown-up

children. My family are not fully aware of my situation because I'm a

proud dad. I have always worked for what I've got. They think I'm doing

all right. They think I've got a nice little place and they think

everything is fine. Suddenly, there is an ultimaty crunch from

downstairs and the hoover stopped... It is the end of the first day with

Britain's hidden hungry. At this point in the evening usually I will

be thinking - I'm peckish, I wonder what I'll have to eat. I know I'll

go downstairs and there is a ?1 Swiss roll is that bad for me anyway

and this is' really is until breakfast -- and that's really it

until breakfast when I have spotted some cornflakes. To think I would

open the fridge and cut off a chunk of Parmesan and eat an avocado. This

is a lovely street in suburbia. You don't expect this poverty behind

these walls. It doesn't make sense. It really doesn't.

You are a nice guy. Am I a nice guy It is the Sport Relief volunteers

first morning with their host families.

You have a lot of protein there. You like branflakes. Theo is up early

spending his food budget. Four points - ?1. 45. There is not a lot

left of my ?2. 28. Do you have breakfast? Not really. If you

haven't got anything, you make your body get used to not having

breakfast. I always say I will keep it for her. This is my breakfast.

Don't eat me. There will be no more if she does that.

Off we go. God bless. See you later. Her focus as you can see is Amelia.

She won't let her go without anything. It doesn't matter if she

hasn't got it, she'll find it. It doesn't matter, if she wants it,

she'll find it for her. In Grantham, Cheryl hasn't had any

breakfast. By now, I would have eaten maybe some cereal and boil

eggs inane a couple of coffees and a couple of digestive biscuits. --

boil eggs and a couple of coffees. No hot water. It is freezing. Paul,

no hot water. It is turned off because it costs too much. So, there

is no hot water? I normally get a strip wash at the sink. Hot running

water. Also saves money by only heating the living room of his

one-bedroomed flat. If you hear strange noises, it is me. When ball

was forced to stop work, he ran up an electricity debt. The electricity

company put in a metre and forces him to pay back some of the debt per

week. I have to pay a minimum of ?25 per week before putting new I want

to use on the electric. -- putting anything. That's my benefits gone

now. How much money do you have? Nothing. Not a penny? Not one single

solitary penny. Oh my word, no, no, no. This week ball has put ?48 of

his ?50. 50 benefits in the metre. It is not rocket science. It leaves

?2. 50 for food. For food. Everything is going on heating this

room. Just this room. I have to choose heat because of my health.

But you need to eat food to keep yourself strong as well. Of course.

This is actually really upsetting. Walk around in my shoes. I feel

quite distressed by it. I feel really angry that not through any

fault of yours, because you have been ill, that you have to kind of

keep yourself like warm, but you can't physically keep your yourself

strong through food or eating the right types of food.

Everything on. The rising cost in things like gas and electric, that

money has to come from somewhere. Now, if you are already going

without clothes, going out and all the rest of it, what is the last

place you can cut back on? Your food. Another strain on Carly's

budget is debt. How far away is school? A few years back, I had to

take rather a large loan so I could afford a deposit for moving, the

removal fees, the estate agent fees and a month Reece rent upfront. --

rent upfront. In total Carly has over ?4,000 in debt. I made some

very poor choices and tried to play keep up with the Joneses. I didn't

want people to know we are the average benefit family. I was

putting things on credit cards and stuff. You have 10 minutes to get

through the door. I have taken a budgeting loan from the Government

to provide clothes and had my child's bed repaired. Carly pays the

credit card company every week. Her Government debts are repaid by a ?31

perweek cut in her benefits. The rate at which they are asking me to

pay this off, you know, I'm struggling. Carly's debt repayments

have to come out of the ?267 benefits she has to spend a week. If

I'm honest, that, you know, it is a night out in London. It is just

crazy to think of. This says all figures are per week.

Your main source of income is your child tax credit. Dee's benefits and

widows pension total just under ?300 a week. Rachel wants to know why

that's not enough to feed her kids nutritious meals. TV licence. ?7 for

water. How much do you pay for electricity? ?about ?20. In theory

you should have ?175 a week in your pocket.

Yeah, go on. No, I don't. Do you have any debt interest you are

paying? That's ?60. A month. A week. OK, so that wipes out quite a lot of

your... Why didn't you tell me about that? Because I forgot. So, what is

that? Did you take out a loan. Two years ago Dee borrowed ?1,000 from a

doorstep lender to pay outstanding bills and Christmas for her four

girls. What was the capital sum of your loan? It was ?1,000. All in all

I have had to pay nearly ?1,900. Same again in interest. The loan has

gone down by only ?265. It is bloody day daylight robbery. Companies

charging sky high interest rates is often the only option for people on

a low can be. Do they come around? He comes around every Friday. And he

takes cash? Yes. Oh my God. So that's ?60. Yes. Oh my God, I'm

beginning to understand. ?33 a week you have got for food to feed all

three of you. Oh my God.

OK. And your girls are so cheerful. So in the fridge at the moment we

have potatoes, eggs banana. With only a few pounds in her pocket and

three days to go before the next benefit payment, there is only one

place Carly can turn to, to feed her family. The first time I had to go

and approach the food bank I felt very embarrassed. You know, that I

was having to go in there to ask for help. I think you should stop

thinking that. I promise, if we were a couple and we were together and we

were looking after our kids and you said - we are going to go to the

food bank today I would still be like - let's G Bless, was that a

proposal? Let's get married. -- let's go. But Carly can't just walk

into a food bank. First, she has to convince her local council that she

deserves emergency food aid. I'm trying to clear debt and to keep up

with three going kids and trying to keep them full and them in clothes

and stuff, you know for the last couple of weeks, I have had no

heating on in my house, I just cannot afford that expense. What I

put into one bill or debt is coming away from the other things that I'm

trying to put on the table for my children. It really does make me

feel like a bad parent. It makes me feel like I can't provide for my

children. You know, there are times that... You know, it is an emotional

thing. You do feel like you are doing wrong. That, you know, because

of, you know, mistakes in the past, that you are a bad parent and it is

a horrible feeling that I can't always provide what my children

need. It's horrible. Carly has to go through this process every time she

needs to visit a food bank. If I'm honest, I think parts of the reasons

why she is in this situation isn't her fault. You get emotional. You

bottle it up. She was earning a good wage, spent money, never saved. She

ran up massive debts. She wasn't living in poverty. No, I wouldn't

call it that. My understanding of living in poverty is where you don't

really have a house. You are hungry. She doesn't have a house. She does

have a roof over her head. Your figure something creeping up all the

time. We keep finding things you are spending money on. Oh, your ciggies,

how many packs a week? I buy one every other day? How much? ?3 a

pack. Look at me in the eye? What, for 20? I buy Marlborough Lights for

?484 for ten. Why are they so cheap? I don't know. Are they bootleg. You

are smoking smuggled Russian cigarettes. Do you think I need to

try one for the pups of research? Yes. If you added the ?12 she spends

on cigarettes there would be more money for food. -- for the pups of

research? I think she recognises that, but would she be able to cope

without them? These are her choices. I don't now see them as a luxury

item. It's lunch time and Ida is doing a dinnerlady shift at her

daughter's school. We are done now. You are not doing bad. We might keep

you. As she is on part-time hours and a low wage, Amelia gets a free

school lunch. She gets fed too. Most days, it is the only meal she eats.

Do I look like a man who doesn't know when he is going to eat again?

The answer is yes. My belly is rumbling. I can't think about it.

For Cheryl, lunch is the first meal of the day. I could really dip a

load of things in it. Bread, chips, a Twix. Are you not having one? No I

can't spoil myself by having something in the middle of the day

when I don't normally. I feel bad now. Do you know, I play fairies in

panto quite a lot. If I had a magic wand, I would want to wave it, go,

ding, ding, ding. Food banks are coming to the rescue for an

increasing number of struggling families. I should have got an

e-mail to say I'm coming down. Yes, let's get you some food. In 20099

biggest food bank provider ran 28 centres. -- in 2009. Today they have

over 400. Do you want rice? I love Rice. A lot of the people who come

here have had very good jobs. They have always looked after their

family. They have always been able to get by without asking for help.

We have had situations here, probably once or twice a week, where

people come in and say they haven't eaten for two or three days. That's

common. Hello. Food banks rely on donations from the public. When I go

shopping I buy a bit extra. Absolutely amazing. I'm going to

give you a hug now. Thank you darling. You are welcome. If you

look at some of the comments. This is the UK and people are saying

things like - thank you for feeding me today I was very hungry and you

gave me food to eat. This is the UK. Thanks for the food again. Thanks

for the food. Come here a minute. What is all

this? Bank statement. Barclays bank. Barclays bank. This is the same.

Maybe this is something I should look at for one of my stationery

businesses. A new filing system. Radiators. You know why I keep it

like that and then it goes down and it is filed. Out of sight, out of

mind. In Deptford, Rachel has decided to

spend her money on essentials for Dee's fridge. I have now got ?40

left -- 40p left. 41 P. ! With what is left, Rachel wants to cook Dee's

family a meal. I only have 40p, remember. We will see if we can get

mince and do your chilli. We haven't got enough. We need 9p. Shall we ask

someone? Why not? Aisle' ask someone. It's

all right. Excuse me, do you have 9p? Excuse me, do you have 9p? -- Is

that all the money you have in the whole world? I have my bank card but

I don't have 9p? Excuse me, do you have 9p that I can have in order to

buy something in Iceland it feed a family. Thank you so much. Thank you

very, very much. Dinner sorted. Thank you.

Hold on, hold on, what period is this? This is madness. This is the

annual summary. During that year, you have paid 12 times ?650 in

monthly account fees. 19 ?8 unpaid transaction fees and a further 33

paid transactions fees and ?7 interest. Yes. ?505. That is

terrible. That is terrible. Nearly 10% of her wages go on banks

charges. That's not good. Are you hungry? They are incredibly close to

each other but there has to come a time when Ida has to face up to her

finances and there is going to come a time when she can't give her

daughter everything. For me, it just feels like a train crash about to

happen. She has run up debts of over ?2,000. So, is that it? Do you think

that's our total debt? Maybe if we put ?20 extra to cover if I missed

anything? What, ?20? That's not going to make a difference, is it?

It is overload. She now needs to temper that. And, you know, I can

see her pain. You know, I recognise it. I have seen it before. I have

seen it with my own family when I was growing up. The same emotions.

The same traits are there. And the same mistakes. It's dinner time. We

actually only have one tin of tomatoes. In Grantham Paul is

preparing his one and only meal of the day. You see, because of the

milk you bought we have macaroni cheese. As usual, Ida is skipping

dipper and Theo is doing the same. If it wasn't for the food bank, 100%

we would be going hungry tonight. I'm missing choice. The-up us, the

dips and crisps, and Elderflowers. I miss freshness -- the humous. The

story here is that people are embarrassed to admit they are in

food crisis. I mean, I begged on the street so I could buy my mince for

supper. The first thing I have eaten in this house that has been fresh is

this onion in this chilli. Do you want to taste this to tell me what

it needs? We can take out some for your mum and Nicole who doesn't make

it spicy? I'm considering tomorrow whether I need to dig a bit deeper

to do with how much responsibility Dee is actually taking for her life

and the girls' health. I have been good cop. Now I think it is time to

turn bad cop. My mum used to make it so hot. That was nice. Cheryl is

spending her food budget on meat for Paul. Yokes. Outside the stall she

spots an opportunity, in the supermarket bin. Part of me just

wants to go - leave it, walk away, leave it.

I'm so excited. Hotcross buns, hottedcross buns. Bread. I feel like

hunter gatherer going home with some food.

-- hotcross buns. I have come bearing some goodies. Do you know

what I've got? No idea. What have you got? We have bread. Bread.

Rolls. Hotcross buns. Yeah. It ain't Easter yet. Where have you got all

this lot? Basically, I picked it out of the bin. You are joking. No.

That's not going to look good, is it? No. I don't want my kids to see

me like this. It's hard, isn't it be? I'm better than this. I'm better

than this. I need to sort my own issues about. It's not what kids are

about. But they know what you have been through. They know my health

issues, of course. Of course they do. You didn't choose to be in this

situation. You didn't choose to have no food in the cupboards or have no

electricity. You should not have to put up like this. You should not

have to live like this. That's the way it is. How hard do you keep

trying? When do you stop trying? I've always been a great believer

that the only way to move forward on anything is to communicate. Do I

suggest it might be a good idea if you can talk to somebody in your

family and maybe admit to what you are actually - how you are living?

Porridge is very filling and quite good for you. It is a better carb

than white bread. There is one full day left with the hosts. The bin men

come. Oh, they come, do they? Have they got any bread? I feel I could

say anything to you now. Even if you don't agree with it, I think you can

say - shut up. All your children you have communication with them. Name

me the things you think they don't know when that would shock them.

When they find out the extent of me in the cupboards and lack of food.

They don't know that. No. Is that that a worry for you. Of course.

Whether they have pressure or not It is going to put pressure on them.

That's rubbish. They are your family. I'm the provider. I'm dad.

You know what I mean. You are not Superman. You don't need to have

those added pressures in your head of trying to hide stuff away from

your family. In Deptford, Rachel wants a word with Dee Can I be a bit

honest, when you look at your girls, what do you think in terms of their

health and their diet? I don't know. They are just... But at that age I

bet you were a rake. Because your mum made you meals from scratch.

Meat and two veg. That sort of thing. I don't know, I'm just

prosupering. And you didn't have a mobile and TV. -- I'm just

presuming. The lifestyle of your girls, they are under your roof. You

are getting child benefit for them. That needs to change as well. That

is true. I'm only saying this. I think it has been really hard for

you but I'm worried that you have decided that you can't do anything.

I'm sorry to say all this. I just need to step up. There you go. Thank

you. Today, Dee receives her benefits.

Oh, isn't this lovely. And Rachel wants to change the way she shops

for food. Gorgeous carrots. ! They are buying the ingredients for a

healthy stew. God almighty, though. It can't be ?3. Surely not. ?3 for

one suede. Admittedly grown in a beautiful organic farm in Kent.

Completely unaffordable. Shall we go to ASDA and have a look? Or we can

go to Sainsbury's. Hello. You look like your dad.

Cheryl is also looking for answers. I can't get over how much you look

like your dad. Paul has invited his youngest son Dean around for a chat.

What do you think I'm here for To see how dad lives. OK when it comes

down to it, the money he gets is not enough money for him to live. He

seems to only have one meal a day. Are you quite aware your dad is

eating nothing. Well, no. Could you survive on a tin of soup a day? No,

I can't imagine anybody doing that. Well, that's the truth, though, man.

It's bad, isn't it? Why do you think he hasn't told you what is going on?

Don't know. He is too proud. Why haven't you? It is embarrassing for

me to go to my kids to tell them the situation I'm in. They have enough

of their own problems. It is hard. We struggle at times but there is

still enough to help out. There is plenty of us. How do you feel now he

knows? Better. I'm not proud. I just hope he doesn't think bad of me now

he knows. I will not think bad of you. I just know now that I can do

more to help you, rather than be in that situation. There is that

saying, a shared is a problem halved. I feel that although I can't

wave any magic wands, that that conversation needed to happen today.

I will see you next time. Now, everything is out in the open. They

will be more concerned about me and asking me am I all right, have I got

this and have I got that and do I need anything? To me it shows that

there might be, light at the end of the tunnel, if you like.

He is really nice. He takes after his dad.

. Oh, why don't we chuck some of that in. Rachel and Dee ended up

buying cheap vegetables from her local supermarket. What is that? It

is a leek. To make Rachel's meat and veg stew. Work out what it cost? ?6.

?7 with a tin of Guinness. It is over budget for the day, isn't it?

That was about as cheap a meal as I could imagine making. I have blown

her budget. We made a healthy meal tonight but it cost ?7. And it's

lovely. I think you have to take your finances into control and then

your life will be so much better. You give your daughter so much love,

that quite honestly, you don't have to worry about buying her anything.

Slee doesn't want treats and for you to suffer. -- she doesn't. The bank

fees. No more bank fees. No more bank fees. You cannot afford ?50 on

Sky. You can afford ?15 on Sky. We have to get us back under the

account balance. And open your mail. The bad news for you is - what I

really wanted to do was to come here, learn, shut the door and go.

You haven't allowed me to do that, or Amelia. Because you have been too

lovely. So, I am going to bug you. Even after I leave. OK. I really

appreciate that. And I'm going to keep an eye on you. And you are not

going to let me down. Never. If I let you down, it will be like

letting Amelia and myself down. Good. Give me a kiss. Fantastic.

More involvement will make so much difference. I know it is only one

family and there are hundreds of thousands. But it's one I've been

living with. I know we live poles apart but I really do relate to

them. It is so much like the way I lived when I was small and the way I

was brought up. There was nobody to help us. So, how could I walk away?

I've got me now. I'm done. So I've been with her for the last

few days. - ahaven't done a poo. I went to the loo just now. And for

some reason, I didn't G I'm desperate. But there's loo paper in

the loo and borrow it, to take back to the house so we have loo paper in

the house, so tonight I can settle in and have a poo.

I'm so excited. I'm going to light candles and everything. Carly is

applying for a training course to become a security guard. I don't

want to be on benefits for the rest of my life. And I don't want to

teach my children that the only way forward for them also is to not do

very well because, hay, we can live on benefits. I want to feel proud

I'm providing for my family. I think I have filled that out successfully.

But having inrolled she gets some other news. If you can't afford to

keep it on, that's the way it has to go. The private landLord that owns

her home has a problem. Right, I still don't think that's going to be

an option because there is no money in the pot.

Carly can't afford a rent deposit on another house. What has happened?

That was a really hard phonecall. Um, I've just basically been told

that I'm about to lose where I live. Why? Why has that suddenly happened?

The landlord wants the property back because he is going to put the house

back on the market to sell it. So technically speaking, in two to

three months, I don't have anywhere to live any more.

If she is evicted Carly's family will be placed in council housing

but they may have to live in temporary accommodation first. It

seems to be one blow after another and then above all of that going on,

your hungry. I don't think Carly has felt that she's had a break or had

any situations that have been good to her. Maybe my definition of

poverty is slightly blurred. Maybe some of the choices she made were

wrong but everyone has made bad choices but now she doesn't have the

ability to choose. Maybe this is poverty. Maybe this is UK poverty.

She doesn't have the ability to choose anything. It's such a weird

dilemma. Because I don't want to leave because it's selfish to leave.

I just don't want to leave but at the same time I do want to leave

because it's very emotionally draining and it's hard. Thank you

so, so much. Never take anything in life for granted, really, ever

because any situation can turn your life upside down. You don't expect

to go up in the morning, do you, go to work and that evening be

completely out of it and then realise that maybe you will never go

back to that job again? Thank you so much for having me. The evidence on

the ground is that there are loads more people like Dee than there

were. I didn't even know there were people like De, to begin with. So

this has been a major eye-opener. "Dear Theo. I hope that you were an

inspiration, that even though we are poor, we still have a good life.

Don't forget me." Sport Relief money is supporting

food banks, breakfast clubs and a whole range of other projects like

the ones you have seen in tonight's programme. You can make a real

difference to families who rely on them. To donate ?5 text the word

"food.". In tomorrow's Famous, Rich and

Hungry... Is this an estate. The famous volunteers have to help their

new families. Respect. Escape food poverty. In the soup kitchen, one

little thing can set things off. It's very hard to see the story

having a Hollywood ending. I do really appreciate everything. If I

was Prime Minister, I would make it illegal.