Four celebrities, seven days on the breadline. In this series, Mel B, Trinny Woodall, Keith Allen and Austin Healey leave their comfortable lives behind to step into the shoes of families struggling to make ends meet in Britain.
For seven days, they will try to cope on the budget of the different households they join and in the process learn about problems faced by many families across the UK, such as the daily challenges of paying for food and bills on limited means, dealing with inadequate living conditions, having little or no money to entertain the children and trying to motivate tearaway teenagers to stay in school or get a job.
In the first episode, we followed the four celebrities as they travelled to Leeds to meet their families for the first time. The celebrities knew that the households they would be joining were living on low-incomes, pensions or benefits - and that they would be replacing a key member of the family. But they had very few other facts about who they'd be joining beyond that it is a single parent household, a family with teenagers or an elderly person living alone.
For help with issues addressed in this programme, contact Community Legal Advice - a free and confidential legal advice service for people in England and Wales. Call the helpline on 0845 345 4345 or visit www.communitylegaladvice.org.uk
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