Famous, Rich and Jobless

A4e Chairman Emma Harrison is set to appear in a new BBC TV series, ‘Famous, Rich and Jobless’, to be screened on 9th and 10th March.
 
She will be sending ‘unemployed’ celebrities on a journey through joblessness and back to work.
 
In the sequel to last July’s ‘Famous, Rich and Homeless’, Emma will be sending celebrities Meg Matthews (Noel Gallagher’s ex-wife), actor Larry Lamb (Archie from EastEnders and also Gavin’s Dad in Gavin & Stacey), gardener Diarmuid Gavin and ex-model and society girl Emma Parker Bowles into some of Britain’s most deprived areas. 
 
The celebrities will be stripped of their identities and sent to exist alone and unemployed in inner-city areas of Bristol, London, Manchester and Hartlepool on £9-a-day.
 
Emma will tour the country mentoring them as they seek employment in their chosen trades. The celebrities’ final ordeal will be to experience life with the long-term unemployed.
 
“We hope that ‘Famous, Rich and Jobless’ will highlight the enormous problems faced by everyone seeking re-employment and issue some pointers to those individuals presently searching for jobs,” she said.
 
Emma was appointed a CBE in the 2010 New Year Honours list and was a star of Channel 4’s inaugural series of ‘Secret Millionaire’ when she was sent to Dagenham, East London to scrub the floors of a working men’s club ‘undercover’. The subsequent show on Channel 4 called ‘Benefit Busters’ was a fly-on-the-wall documentary about A4e advisers helping long-term unemployed. Previously Emma has starred in Channel 4’s ‘Make Me a Million’. 

To read the BBC press release, click here


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