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 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 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 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.