famous, rich and hungry for sport relief

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Anybody watching ? I watched it last year realy hit a nerve with me.

So fucking sick of poor people being used as entertainment. When are we going to start seeing shows were poor people get to go on rich people safaris and live as billionaires for a week?

Social mobility is the worst it has been in generations. People get sick, get made redundant, have spouses die. People have accidents, get divorced and have their lives change.

At the moment I'm fine. I have a well paid job, but I have a loan and a mortgage. If I became ill, or lost my job tomorrow, I'd be screwed.

Making bad choices isn't the preserve of the poor. Its just that people who aren't on the breadline can get away with it more.

Fair enough everbody has there own opinion I just think its unfair young parents bieng tarred with the same brush

I would rather donate direct to a food bank than sport relief.

I think this programme has done a huge disservice.

Food tokens have to be the way forward surely? Generous food tokens.

I got a swede for 50p this week from Tesco's

Who is that women kidding when she said the healthiest meal she could think of was £7 for the four of them?

Now we all know you can make a good spag bol with brocolie and carrots on the side for less than that.

Some really harsh comments on here .
Food Poverty is dismal, no one deliberately puts themselves in these situations , food prices have gone up & wages & benefits have stayed the same.

People have always made poor choices though. My mum grew up in the post war era in the East End of London; most people were not well off by any means, but some just made one bad decision after another, they were the ones whose kids constantly had holes in their shoes, or who never had enough to eat. You can't educate all people to be fiscally responsible unfortunately, especially where there is always some form of safety net.

In know Usual. How very dare people debate the moral virtue of smoking and then taking food donated by people struggling themselves. That's quite cuntish, to be honest.

I deliberately didn't watch. As someone up thread said I hate poverty being used as "entertainment".

Its not entertainment, fgs, its shining a light on hidden poverty!

True velvetspoon and throwing more money at people does not work and does not get people out of " poverty". Thirteen years of Labour proved that one.

So whats the answer wineaholic ?

Food tokens. Very generous food tokens. Free hot breakfasts and lunches for children. Huge investment in social housing. Force absent fathers to pay . Workfare.

Usual said exactly what I was thinking as I read down this thread.

And how will workfare help?

Because it won't lead to real jobs. In fact in replaces real jobs.

And there is the usual commonsense fail too, sinister.

I can understand why anyone in the position of the people on the programme would buy a couple of packs of fags, take out loans, etc. Life must be pretty shit for them. Am at some of the comments on here tbh - complete lack of empathy in some cases.

Never watched this in previous years, are the rich celebrities allowed to help their poor hosts after filming has finished? Is a fee part of the deal?

I agree food tokens would be better in most instances but only if help was given on how to prepare healthy nutritious cheap meals and access to cheap fresh ingredients. However if this was done for the people in tonight's episode would then have to use any cash benefits that they received servicing their debts and wouldn't be able to afford, electricity, clothes etc.

I don't doubt that food poverty exists in the UK but I'm not convinced that we have seen the true picture tonight.

Id like to add making doorstep lenders/ mega high interest loans to low-income families illegal & massive promotion of Credit Unions.

Food tokens for where though?

And will you restrict what can be bought with the tokens?

The fags and the pets notwithstanding, I have to say Rachel Johnson, with her talk of oats being a better carb than white bread, and shopping in an organic greengrocers ffs, came across as extremely irritating.

Theo came across the best. Empathetic and practical. Lucky woman to have him staying with her.

I would say that benefits DO provide enough to live on but they don't allow for luxuries ( fags, gadgets and pets) and that this fact seems to be overlooked by many people in receipt of them.