Terry Prone: Michael Sheen's £1m debt payoff is more than just philanthropy 

By exposing a bizarre financial system, the actor — in a small way — is helping to reverse the generational damage debt can deliver

Michael Sheen’s Secret Million Pound Giveaway will see the actor paying off debts for people he doesn’t know. Picture: Channel 4

She was eight when the heavy knock came to the front door. Eight, and proud of her height, which even then indicated she would be a tall, impressive, even intimidating woman when she grew up.

But, back then, she was an eight-year-old with the height of a 10-year-old. Used to being ordered to stand in the back row in school photographs.