Homeless compete for job with Duncan in new series

Homeless compete for job with Duncan in new series
Homeless compete for job with Duncan in new series (Image credit: PA Archive/Press Association Ima)

Duncan Bannatyne is making a new reality TV show with 10 homeless people who will battle for a job with the multi-millionaire. The Scottish mogul, 61, will test the down-and-outs with a series of tasks at his £12 million luxury spa hotel in Hastings, East Sussex, according to The Sun. The show, Homeless Hotel, is designed to give people their self-respect back by getting them off the streets - with one person being hired at the hotel. A show source told The Sun: "We're not going to be scooping tramps off the street and laughing at them trying to adjust. "It's a serious programme where the contestants will all be people who have got themselves into an unfortunate situation and are desperate to work their way out of it." Dragons' Den star Duncan, 61, took part in a charity run for homeless charity Shelter this year.

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.