{"id":31013,"date":"2025-07-29T12:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T12:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/31013\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T12:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T12:05:10","slug":"celebrity-big-brother-star-details-homelessness-experience-following-divorce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/31013\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrity Big Brother star details homelessness experience following divorce"},"content":{"rendered":"

Celebrity Big Brother<\/a> star Gail Porter<\/a> has opened up about experiencing homelessness following her divorce.<\/p>\n

Appearing on Best’s Suddenly Single<\/a> podcast, Porter detailed her experience of becoming homeless following her divorce from Dan Hipgrave, which occurred in 2006 after five years of marriage. <\/p>\n

Speaking about that time in her life, Porter said: “I didn’t have a home because I couldn’t afford the rent. And I was even applying for jobs at a bookshop and the library.”<\/p>\n

According to the presenter, she applied for a number of jobs but was told that she would “be fine” due to her celebrity status. <\/p>\n

After declaring herself bankrupt, Porter said she eventually found her feet, saying: “Now I\u2019m back on my feet and so that is a good thing.”<\/p>\n

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Related: Rylan Clark pulls out of radio show after family emergency<\/a><\/p>\n

Following her experience, Porter has worked with a number of charities, recently teaming up with Prince William<\/a> for the Homewards Aberdeen Innovative Housing Project, an initiative which aims to tackle homelessness. <\/p>\n

As well as this, Porter works with an organisation called StreetVet, a UK based charity that provides accessible vet care to pets belonging to people experiencing homelessness.<\/p>\n

On working with the charity, Porter said it was close to her heart as her cat Pickles was with her when she experienced homelessness.<\/p>\n

Porter said: “I work with StreetVet. I got chucked out my flat when I couldn’t afford to pay the rent, and I had a cat, Pickles. She stayed with me. Some friends could let me stay but some had a dog.”<\/p>\n

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Related: Celebrity Big Brother crowns 2025 winner<\/a> <\/p>\n

She continued: “Some hostels will say we can take you but we can\u2019t take your dog. When you have a pet they are part of your family. If it was really bad, I would have had to give Pickles to somebody else. But she made it through.”<\/p>\n

Back in 2015, Porter appeared on the 16th season of Celebrity Big Brother<\/a>. She was the fourth celebrity to be evicted after spending 20 days in the Big Brother house. <\/p>\n

Celebrity Big Brother airs on ITV2 and ITVX<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read more Celebrity Big Brother news on our dedicated homepage<\/a><\/p>\n

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Reporter, Digital Spy<\/p>\n

Harriet is a freelance news writer specialising in TV<\/a> and movies<\/a> at Digital Spy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A horror enthusiast, she joined Digital Spy after working on her own horror website, reviewing films and focusing largely on feminism in the genre.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In her spare time, Harriet paints and produces mixed-media art. She graduated from the University of Kingston with a BA in fine art, where she specialised in painting. She also has an MA in journalism from Birkbeck University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celebrity Big Brother star Gail Porter has opened up about experiencing homelessness following her divorce. Appearing on Best’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[379,19033,381,96,2788,1156,19032,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-31013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-b9af9ef7-acaa-415b-a661-6fb197fea918","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-entertainment","tag-hasproduct-true","tag-locale-gb","tag-shorttitle-cbb-star-details-homelessness-following-divorce","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}