Sounds like he wasted all that money. A £500k bungalow? JFC with a million bucks I could buy a prefab house and a lot to plop it on and live the rest of my life until I inevitable drop dead from heart disease. Also RIP Bob. I wouldn’t be surprised if whoever hit him didn’t even realize it.
I'm homeless after making and losing £1,000,000 and having a hit film
Submitted 7 months ago by Flax_vert@feddit.uk to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
https://metro.co.uk/2024/03/26/im-homeless-making-losing-1-000-000-a-hit-film-20530538/
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Etterra@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 7 months ago
London prices. Saw someone else say it would have been much better if he left london
Baggins@feddit.uk 7 months ago
Everything’s better if you leave London.
Emperor@feddit.uk 7 months ago
All a bit sad but heroin addicts tend to be self-destructive at the best of times - half the smackheads I know managed to kick the habit and go on to lead productive lives but I still see a few around begging (when they aren’t banged up) and they are getting on a bit now.
Add in bad advice, likely a few parasites putting their hand in his pocket and this isn’t a huge surprise.
steeznson@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I know some who have managed to hold down successful careers despite their habit. I wonder how many hidden “functional” users there are
Blackmist@feddit.uk 7 months ago
“Now I suck off dogs for Quavers”
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 7 months ago
Are we really going to ignore that this guy’s name is Jim Bowen?
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Not British: why is that interesting?
Zip2@feddit.uk 7 months ago
It’s super, smashing and great to see what he won.
underthesign@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You could say this guy’s career did a real one-hunded-and-eighty!
jlow@beehaw.org 7 months ago
Metro? No, thanks.
mannycalavera@feddit.uk 7 months ago
Saw this guy and the cat Bob during their rose to fame. Pre book, pre film. Utter cunt. Very aggressive with people and literally told my friend she couldn’t look at the cat without a donation.
What a waste of an opportunity he was given.
EdanGrey@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I took him and his cat water during a very very hot summer, saw them on my way back to college during my lunch break, all before the fame too. He seemed ok at the time but that may be because I was giving him something he probably needed.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 7 months ago
He actually seemed like a bit of a prick in the film, too.
MadBob@feddit.nl 7 months ago
I got all three of the books for Christmas one year because my name’s Bob too, and I wouldn’t say he comes off as an utter cunt, but he does seem like poor company.