My Daughter Texted Me: So, Dad, You're Famous Again - but You Forgot to Mention All the Drinking ; in His First Interview, the Itn Man Who Is Now Homeless Confesses the Real Reason That He has Lost Everything

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FOR A moment, in the chilly Brighton sea breeze, Ed Mitchell's face lights up. Unusually for a homeless person, he still has a mobile telephone and he's received a text message from his daughter Alexandra.

'So Dad! You are famous again. You're in so many of the papers. It's interesting for people to read, though you did conveniently forget to F mention your alcohol problem.' For Mitchell, it was the end of a memorable 48 hours in which he'd debated the perils of spiralling debt with John Humphrys on the Today programme and been royally entertained by broadsheet journalists over pints of lager. He's rather enjoyed talking about himself.

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My Daughter Texted Me: So, Dad, You're Famous Again - but You Forgot to Mention All the Drinking ; in His First Interview, the Itn Man Who Is Now Homeless Confesses the Real Reason That He has Lost Everything

'I miss the banter of newsrooms,' he admits.

'I like good conversation. There are some very dumb dossers out there.' Last week it emerged that Mitchell, a former Pounds 100,000- a-year news presenter with the BBC and ITN, was living rough on the streets of Brighton. So far, he has put his spectacular

Brighton. So far, he has put his spectacular fall from grace down to t h e s p i ralling debts he accumulated.

He had 25 credit cards, most of which had credit limits of between Pounds 10,000 and ...

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