I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! star Dean McCullough has shared his heartbreaking ordeal with homelessness, revealing that he didn't realise how bad things were. The 32-year-old appeared on Good Morning Britain on Wednesday (December 18) to share information on hidden homelessness and what he went through as a child. Talking to presenters Richard Madeley and Kate Garraway via video link, Dean opened up on not having a fixed address as a child.
He said: "From my own personal experience, we were homeless whenever I was younger. My mum was forced out of the home and I went with her, and we shared a bedroom and we shared a sofa. "At the time, I was going to school, I was getting dressed up every day, I was fed well, and we were surprisingly quite happy and made the most of that situation and at the time, I wouldn't have called that homeless.".
Dean went on to share that after he started working with Centre Point, who help to end child homelessness, he realised there was an issue. The radio DJ continued: "It wasn't until I started working with them - they didn't know about my homelessness story - and to be honest with you, I didn't understand the experience I had until we started working together.
"I shared with them as well that whenever I was living in London, between performing contracts and other bits and bobs, I didn't have a fixed address. For quite a lot of my time living in London, I was moving from house to house.". He added: "Some of those houses that I lived in were quite volatile, you know housemates of mine were using drugs and alcohol and I got caught up in that world as well. Sometimes I would go on Thursday and stay out all weekend going from party to party, friend's house to friend's house - just so I wouldn't be in that volatile environment.".
