''Rich, Famous and in the Slums'' is a TV programme broadcast by the BBC on 3 and 10 March 2011 for

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Four famous personalities,

Lenny Henry Sir Lenworth George Henry (born 29 August 1958) is a British actor, comedian, singer, television presenter and writer. Henry gained success as a stand-up comedian and impressionist in the late 1970s and early 1980s, culminating in '' The Le ...

Reggie Yates Reginald (Reggie) Yates (born 31 May 1983) is a British writer and director with a career spanning three decades on screen as an actor, television presenter and radio DJ. Yates played Leo Jones in ''Doctor Who'' and has worked at the BBC in ra ...

Samantha Womack Samantha Zoe Womack ('' née'' Janus; born 2 November 1972) is an English actress, singer, model and director who has worked in film, television and stage. Womack initially planned a career in singing and she represented the United Kingdom i ...

and

Angela Rippon Angela May Rippon (born 12 October 1944)"Angela Rippon," ''Contemporary Authors Online'', Detroit: Gale, (2008) ''Gale Biography In Context'' is an English television journalist, newsreader, writer and presenter. Rippon presented radio and tele ...

, were sent by the BBC to live for several weeks in the slums of Kibera. They had to leave all their belongings behind with the two people who were running the experience. Firstly, they had to live in

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on their own. They were given £2 to start off with to buy the necessities like a toothbrush but they had to earn all the other money they needed. Then, after a week living on their own, they went to live with residents of Kibera.

went to live with a family of

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, the oldest being a boy called Bernard.

goes to a wannabe hip hop artists who records his music on his friend's computer but doesn't have any money to record the lyrics.

goes to live with a prostitute. She has had to send her children away to live with her grandma so she can earn money. Her family have no idea she is a prostitute and think she is a

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and Angela Rippon goes to live with a lady who owns a

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and is

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. In the end, Lenny feels so sad for the orphans who are literally living with a drainpipe of filthy water running behind them while they are doing their

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that he buys them a house, Reggie takes the hip hop artist to the local

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, Samantha takes the lady who is forced to work as a prostitute to see her children and Angela helps the HIV positive lady advertise her salon, so that she can pay her child's school fees.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rich, Famous And in the Slums 2011 British television series debuts 2011 British television series endings Comic Relief BBC television documentaries English-language television shows

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