Bear Grylls: 'We can break the stigma of hidden homelessness'

Adventurer Bear Grylls is turning actor in a new short film putting hidden homelessness and Big Issue in the spotlight.

Grylls has teamed up with classical pianist Fabio D’Andrea for the five-minute tale of a former military man sleeping in his car and a mother and daughter struggling in a dingy flat.

Their paths cross with Grylls who is working out at the gym when he notices the man tucking a sleeping bag into a locker and strikes up a conversation.

Grylls later meets up with the man at a cafe where he is sat thumbing through a copy of Big Issue.

That meeting is instrumental with getting the man the support he needs.

Meanwhile, the connection with Grylls at the gym is also instrumental in getting the mother and her daughter, who is bullied at school due to homelessness , the supp