{"id":3626,"date":"2025-03-11T10:24:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T10:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzz7.info\/?p=3626"},"modified":"2025-03-11T10:25:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T10:25:06","slug":"michael-sheen-spent-his-own-money-to-write-off-1-3-million-of-neighbors-debts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/?p=3626","title":{"rendered":"Michael Sheen spent his own money to write off $1.3 million of neighbors\u2019 debts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm836u43300792cqf50whfkvd@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\" data-analytics-observe=\"off\">Actor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/entertainment\/2023\/07\/24\/good-omens-season-two-sheen-tennant.cnn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Sheen<\/a> has bought \u00a31 million ($1.3 million) of his neighbors\u2019 debts and written them off using \u00a3100,000 ($129,000) of his own money.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm836u8as0002356md9ac70c0@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\" data-analytics-observe=\"off\">Sheen, best known for his roles in \u201cThe Queen,\u201d \u201cFrost\/Nixon,\u201d \u201cMasters of Sex\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/07\/28\/entertainment\/good-omens-season-2-review\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Good Omens<\/a>,\u201d first embarked on his \u201cdebt heist\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm836u8as0003356m2cla4gz2@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\" data-analytics-observe=\"off\">His efforts will be detailed in a documentary titled \u201cMichael Sheen\u2019s One Million Pound Giveaway,\u201d to be broadcast on British TV station Channel 4 later Monday. In the documentary, he explains the complex financial structures of the debt industry that allowed him to buy debt worth 10 times the value of his own money.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm836u8as0003356m2cla4gz2@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\" data-analytics-observe=\"off\">Source : CNN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Michael Sheen has bought \u00a31 million ($1.3 million) of his neighbors\u2019 debts and written them off using \u00a3100,000 ($129,000) of his own money. Sheen, best known for his roles in \u201cThe Queen,\u201d \u201cFrost\/Nixon,\u201d \u201cMasters of Sex\u201d and \u201cGood Omens,\u201d first embarked on his \u201cdebt heist\u201d two years ago, with the twin aims of helping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3626"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3629,"href":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626\/revisions\/3629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}