‘I was homeless for six years, now I'm helping other kids out on the streets'

HAPPY Mondays star Bez is bidding to help the homeless after revealing he spent six desperate years living rough before finding fame.

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He was forced to sleep on the street and went hungry after he was thrown out of his home at just 16.

He said: “When I was growing up in Salford, I was always in trouble. It was stuff like petty crime and all sorts of things. I was basically a rebel without a cause. And I got kicked out by my parents and ended up homeless.

“I was then homeless from 16 to 22. I was such a young kid I couldn’t take care of the basic things.