Michael Sheen paid off £1 million of debt for his neighbors in south Wales

In June 2016, John Oliver announced during an episode of Last Week Tonight that he had formed a debt-acquisition company. He purchased and forgave almost $15 million of medical debt for 9,000 people. The crazy part is that it only cost $60,000 to acquire that much money of other people's debt. It really highlighted how corrupt the whole damn system really is. John's generous stunt actually ended up inspiring none other than Michael Sheen to do something similar. For the last two years, Michael spent around £100,000 of his own money to buy around £1 million worth of debt owed by . . .