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Joanna Lumley and Husband Quietly Pay £450,000 in School Meal Debt, Restoring Dignity to Thousands of Children Across the UK

In a world where generosity often announces itself loud and unapologetic, Joanna Lumley and her husband, Stephen Barlow, chose compassion over spectacle — and did it quietly.

It didn’t appear on a red carpet. No press release. No photo op.

Between 2019 and the height of the cost-of-living crisis, the couple paid off more than £450,000 in outstanding school meal debt across the UK — debts that had left tens of thousands of children quietly hungry or humiliated.