FORMER BRIT CNBC FINANCE REPORTER BECOMES A BUM WHO CALLS A STREET BENCH HOME
January 5th 2008 02:44
A former British ITN newsreader and GBP85, 000 (A$190,000) a year business and finance reporter for US network CNBC ended up as a homeless bum due to mismanaged finances.
Credit card debt and alcoholism led to divorce, bankruptcy and homelessness, which in turn led to a 10 month stint sleeping on a bench next to a nightclub.
But things are on the improve: the former newsreader Ed Mitchell is in rehab and about to become the subject of a new ITV1 documentary in which his former journalistic colleague Carol Barnes attempts to find out why it happened.
It also attracted Carol Barnes who saw the newspaper story, wondered what happened, found out and decided the story was worth a documentary.
In the documentary, provisionally titled Saving Ed Mitchell, Barnes will be seen paying her former colleague a surprise visit and the cameras follow him on the streets before he checks into rehab at the Priory.
The production team filmed with Mitchell over the Christmas period and will be monitoring his progress during rehab.
The 30 minute film will air later this month, and is being made by TwoFour Productions with executive producers Joe Houlihan and Emma Morgan.
Mitchell told the Guardian, "There is an irony that someone who should be an expert as a business and finance reporter should get their finances in such a state."
Indeed.
- From MediaBlab
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