THE SECRET MILLIONAIRE: Kevin Morley
The documentary series with a social conscience returns for a new series with a new batch of wealthy benefactors seeking to change the lives of others for the better. This episode’s Secret Millionair e is 57-year-old Kevin Morley from Oxford, the former MD of Rover, now an entrepreneur. Determined to venture out of his comfort zone, Kevin leaves his countryside pad, loving family, and top-of-the-range Ferrari behind, to meet people who haven’t been so fortunate in life. After ten days, he’ll be giving away nearly a quarter of a million pounds; enough to make a huge impact on someone’s life.
Sunday 22 March 2009
9:00pm Channel 4
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Good evening I wanted to ask you if u have a contact forwarding address for kevin Morley, as I wanted to send him something.
Kind regards
Syhana
I can not believe that £10.000 was given to a man who had been given a council house and who stated he could not work because of depression I find it insulting I am a single dad with no council house having to pay £15.000 pa in the private sector and yes depressed but would love a council house so I could go back to work will this man now get hes benefits stopped now he has £10.000 in the bank
Hi Kevin
I have never seen your programme before, when I watched it tonight I was so overwhelmed on how you are helping people, projects, I started to get very emotional when I saw how genuine and thoughtful you are, and all I want to say is you have made people so happy and it is so nice to see,thank you for helping these people and projects I know they are so grateful expecially when you see men cry it say’s it all, and to see the little children’s faces
Well done I admire you, you are a very special person
i am the grandmother of them children my daughter left them and my grandchildren deserve everything they got they lived with bedbugs for a long time i know i was there and had to go to hospital over xsmas due to the bites thankyou kevin
want to contact kevin morley to say thanks n arrange to go to dysneyland with kids my own expense thankyou
Morning
Thought Kevin was very generous.
As the programme progressed I warmed to kevin, Initally when Kevin went into his flat I thought he was a scathing about how half our population live.
Thought it was funny when he was asking the counter worker in the shop what she recommended, beans, spagetti or perhaps luxury burgers!
Kevin nearly gave it away when he stated he has never seen poverty
and housing like this before, and the other person asked if he was an alien?
I thought £10k to neil was generous and you only had to look at the childrens faces to see that success-I would of loved it if
Kevin could of offered neil and the west indian single dad part-time work in his business that they could improve there skills and experience, and build neils confidence(previously depressed)
and which may lead to full-time work when his children have grown-up.What do you think?
i wish i could give my grandkids more but i cannot my daughter left them n neil is so good a dad but i live in northern ireland on my own n c them n ring them as often as i could glad they r happy i love3 them
I loved this episode. Iv never heard of Kevin but now have nothing but the utmost respect for him. I loved what you did. May you be blessed with beautiful Grandkids so you can enjoy their growing up. Thanks for being Real Kevin and showing us that not all money people are arrogant, lonely fools. Top marks mate.
Sorry Kevin,
I thought you were played by aload of bleeding hearts. The centre and the adventure playground were very deserving and full praise for giving what you did. But you didn’t seek out the deserving. You didn’t ask any of the right questions directly to these people who had found themselves in the situations they were in, if you did then they weren’t aired. Why could they not get a job. Why could they not provide for their families. I feel you let the plight of the children cloud your judgement. When you asked the single dad when he would be likely to get a job he replied when I have no more worries. There was your answer there NEVER. When he has no more worries he’ll be dead because life is full of worries and they get worse the older you get and the more responsibility you take on, but you still went ahead and gave him 10K anyway. He couldn’t afford to take his kids to the zoo. Crap, I have been on benefits (not for long but on benefits none the less) and managed to take my kids to the zoo and other various different days out by saving a small amount each week until it added up to a day out. He is a sufferer of Lazyitus and he doesn’t work or take his kids out because he can’t be bothered he just uses the excuse of ‘Depression’ to make it more socially acceptable.
I’m the mother of the 3 kids, thankful 4 all the help kevin has given my kids. but if he knew the real guy and not the actor neil is then i dont think he wood hav got anythin, he wouldn’t b so much of a single dad if he would agree for me 2 c them instead of making it difficult.
At least my kids are gettin somethin in there lives, thanks to kevin.
catherine u walked out n had another kid to his stepdad u never tried to c them kids
catherine u walked out not caring or trying to c them
neil was left with nothing after he left infested house if people would have listened to christopher on programme he did not care about leaving his toys or anthing else behind as long as he did not get bitten anymore
i no he was i didnt say that did i, but thanks 4 bein my mum.
who said anythin bout christopher leavin his toy’s i dont remember mentionin christopher just now, and u no wot i’ve been doin 2 say on here that i haven’t tried 2 c them is the wrost thing ever and 2 come from my own mum just makes it worse.
after wot happened last time u stayed there i dont no y ur all ova him.
my comment about kids leaving everything was at uk sharon not u
You are a very thoughtfull and kind person. i don’t have any word to express your kindness.. except saying GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY.
FANTASTIC! Kevin Morley has made all those people have faith in life once again. I was very moved by what he has done and feel that there is still good in the human race! I’m sure the difference he has made will encourage more wealthy people to do something similar…
kevin , i just wanted to say well done , i am a self employed builder , what can i do to help your project ..
A well made documentary 4 a deserving cause. Its a pity tho that society needs a programme like this to open the eyes of the fortunate to the plight of the unfortunate. This concept of humility and gratitude for everything one has should be ingrained in all of us, not just a few minutes on a monday night. We should be ashamed of ourselves. May God have mercy on us all.
I have to say that what Kevin Morley done was truly inspirational. Being in a similar situation myself years ago I found it encouraging that someone wants to help these people. To all the people that are homeless at the moment or struggling with housing it DOES get better. Being in that situation made me realise that I wanted something better for my daughter.
So I decided to go back to college and eventually got myself a place at university to study law. Even though my family are still facing problems I feel that things can only get better. So good luck to everyone xx
Enjoyed kevin going through what most of do everyday, he did work hard for what he has now and i find kevin to be a very generous man, he didnt have to agree to the program or take part and yet he did, we have just had our recycle bins set alight underneath where our toddlers live and breathe, luckily nobody came to any harm but only a matter of time in barne barton, plymouth
I enjoyed watching the programe on Sunday night I rember Keven when he talked at Rover Dealer Meetings in his Rover days and he was so good to listen to then.It was so good to see how well Keven has done since thoes days and also to see him giving his time and money Good luck and god bless you and yours
hi there, im neil the single dad from the secret millionaire.
first things first, thank you jeanette for your support its really good.
second thing, Catherine mason, dont you ever call yourself a mother again, what kind of mohther would walk out on three wonderfull kids, yes you did have the chance to see my children, I have proof of that from the soliciter which you sighned, so would you like me scan the letter that you sighned and upload it on here so people could see how you like to lie to my soliciter going back neally three years ago, giving you access to the kids.
but since then you have not been in contact, Therefore you will never see them kids, As they dont even wanna see you.
the kids dont even reconise you from the photograpgh i showed them, So now what kind of mum do you think you are.
no birthday cards or nothing from you ever. there you go, that says it all about you.
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hi there, how can you say that Michael Watson you dont no me or any thing about me i will work when the time is right and not befor espcaily just to make people like you happy grow up and be a man.
hi there my name is neil im the single dad from the secret millionaire,
i just want to say thank you to kevin for every thing hes don for me and my kids hes mad such a big difrenc in uor lives and the kids say thank you to kevin thank you so so much, all our love,
hi there my name is neil im the single dad from the secret millionaire,
hi i would just like to say thank you to all the people thats showing me and my kids suport at the momment thanks it meens a lot.
hi there my name is neil im the single dad from the secret millionaire,
hi UK Sharon, you dont no any thing how can you say im lazy you havent got a clue your an idiot lookin arfter three kids is a full time job and i do take them to loads of places.
jealousy GETS YOU NOWHERE
hi there my name is neil im the single dad from the secret millionaire,
FOR ALL YOU PEOPLE WHO ARE UPSET ABOUT THE HELP I GOT IVE ONLY 1 THING TO SAY AND THATS,
JEALOUSY WILL GET YOU NOWHERE.
hi gloria quinn thank you, you are 100% right we are over the moon and the kids are so happy thank you once again for your nice reply xxx
hi, kevin is such an amazing man he does what he does becouse he wants to and he nows it helps people he likes what he does hes very understanding easy to talk to and yes very genueres thank you kevin from me and my kids not only for the amazing help you gave me and the kids but just for meetin you and findin a true freind thanks to you and your familly xxx
I am truly moved by what Kevin has done and each one of these episodes of Secret Millionaire reinforces in me the belief that there are indeed many good people out there who really want to help others. To those who have had anything negative to say about Neill – shame on you. Do not judge someone you do not know or something you do not understand (the very real problems associated with clinical depression). I volunteer with the homeless in London myself and know that no one in that situation is there by choice – rather they have been dealt some very hard blows that we should all pray we will never experience. To Kevin, if you are reading any of these comments and are wanting to continue working with disadvantaged individuals – I, like Grant (above) would love to get involved and help out in any way I can.
hi Rachelle, thank you so much 4 your lovely supart it really means so much to me and my three kids,i cant beleive people think we choos to live with depression its crazy,and i hope one day i can come out of depression and live a normal life,.thanks again.
neil and kids.
yea u upload that neil, coz u said u needed it 2 hav rites 4 the kids in hospitals. u told me also that if i sent cards and gift u woodnt give them 2 them. and i walked out on u and the things u did 2 me infront of our kids, and u said i could c them and havent let me. even suprervised i woodnt mind coz i’m sure of 1 thing and thats i never wanna b in a 50 mile radius of u.
where’d the comment go u write, yea u keep dreamin if u think u never done anythin 2 me u always deny everythin anyway so wot do i care. and try 2 spell its hard 2 no wot ur talkin bout, yea it want his fault and thats good u told him that but i no other things u told him 2 which was mean.
and u no y i didnt take them 4 1 u no i couldnt even take christopher 2 skool, or walk in a shop. so wot good wood i hav been 2 them, and i said wot u did 2 me not the kids so y wood i hav tried takin them off u.
u always told me if we split u wood never stop me c’in them but here we r. then u said i could c them when i talked 2 u some 1st, i tried that but it was 2 difficult.
dont u think it wood b nice 2 let me c them woodn’t it give u a little break once in a while, and b nice 4 the kids in the end so i can give them birthday gifts and stuff. all the things u told me yrs ago and goin back on wot u said it’s like i never really new u at all. and u were just messin with me all those yrs.