pete bennett , who won the tv programme in 2006 , has revealed he is now homeless that the 33 year old from brighton 's life went rapidly downhill after he finished first in the seventh series of the channel 4 show nine years ago .
despite being given £ 100,000 of prize money and releasing , pete is now broke and living off the charity of friends that he found it impossible to get a job or being taken seriously for his music after he left the house .