Britain’s Spending Secrets: Benefits mum splashes £5000 on luxury lifestyle – Express.co.uk

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Britain’s Spending Secrets: Benefits mum splashes £5000 on luxury lifestyle – Express.co.uk

Single mum Charlotte speaking to Anne Robinson on Britain's Spending SecretsBBC

Single mum Charlotte speaking to Anne Robinson on Britain’s Spending Secrets

Despite being £500 in arrears, she has extravagant taste and has splashed the cash on luxury goods for her flat including a £2,000 all singing, all dancing fridge freezer.

The wannabe WAG from Milton Keynes features in the new BBC documentary Britain’s Spending Secrets which airs tonight.

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In a trailer for the show, presenter Anne Robinson looks unimpressed as Charlotte tells her: “Just because I’m on benefits, why shouldn’t I have the nicer things in life?

“It has shot me into financial difficulty obviously but at the same time I now own what I dreamed of owning, which is a luxury fridge freezer.”

Charlotte lives a luxury lifestyle despite facing evictionBBC

Charlotte lives a luxury lifestyle despite facing eviction

Charlotte got into debt after buying the fridge freezer and other goods – including a television, washing machine and cooker – on hire purchase, but with crazy interest rates of up to 90 per cent.

Blaming celebrity culture for her extravagance Charlotte said: “It made me feel awesome when my friends came – they’d call me posh, which made me feel a bit like a footballer’s wife.”

She admits she was forced to part with everything except the fridge freezer after being chased by bailiffs, although a housing association grant enabled her to replace the basic items.

Anne Robinson meets an array of people on the BBC showBBC

Anne Robinson meets an array of people on the BBC show

“It was a bit gutting. I had everything I’d ever dreamed of and to have to give it back is swallowing a bit of pride.”

Despite her benefits budget, Charlotte refuses to compromise on her policy of not buying supermarket own-brands: “I don’t like value products as such, they have to be a brand, I only use Andrex. Value toilet paper is like straw on your bum.”

Britain’s Spending Secret starts tonight on BBC One at 9pm.

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