Gail Porter on William’s homelessness campaign: He really wants to help

The erstwhile children’s TV presenter spoke to William astir her ain acquisition of not being capable to spend to unrecorded successful her ain location for the ITV1 and ITVX documentary Prince William: We Can End Homelessness, which continues airing connected Thursday astatine 9pm.

She told ITV’s Lorraine amusement that she had felt a “bit excessively embarrassed to speech astir it each and it benignant of caught up with me”, earlier she felt comfy successful caller years to beryllium an advocator for homelessness and beryllium outspoken astir what she went through.

Scottish TV property Porter said: “It was conscionable bully to cognize that helium (William) conscionable decidedly wants to get down and help.”

Porter compared her acquisition to being a “hidden stateless person” arsenic she couch-surfed astatine friends’ places portion successful the limelight erstwhile worked “dried up”, and said the contented is improbable to beryllium resolved but tin beryllium helped.

She said: “I deliberation you cognize it’s not going to end, (this campaign) it’s not retired to extremity it, but it’s to get radical to beryllium alert of it and to marque it truthful it doesn’t past for a agelong time.

“So if someone’s stateless they get the assistance that they need, and we tin progress, arsenic opposed to conscionable saying,’Oh, it’s each going to extremity successful 5 years’, due to the fact that you can’t conscionable bash that successful 5 years.

“I conscionable anticipation that radical get progressive and recognize what goes connected successful different people’s lives, and conscionable beryllium alert that radical are stateless oregon they’re hidden homeless.”

The Prince of Wales launched his five-year Homewards inaugural past twelvemonth that aims to tackle each forms of homelessness, which “touches the lives of acold excessively galore people”.

Porter, an advocator for Homewards, besides recalled she spent a nighttime connected a seat astatine London’s Hampstead Heath during 1 challenging moment.

She said: “I was conscionable going done a hard time. I’d mislaid my hair. Work wasn’t truly coming in, bills were going out, and it conscionable (was) 1 of those things. It’s weird that present that I’ll get to speech astir it, they tin hap to anybody.

“I ne'er expected successful a cardinal years that that would hap to me. ”

Porter was archetypal diagnosed with alopecia successful 2005 and has advocated for intelligence wellness arsenic well.