A former Ramsey Grammar School student has changed his perspective on homelessness after appearing in a TV documentary series.

Jay Warren, whose grandfather’s net worth reached about £18m and dad’s networth is £4m, had his world reversed as he spent four days and three nights on the London streets to gain an understanding of those living it rough.

The self-confessed spending addict’s experience was filmed for Rich Kids Go Homeless, a Channel 5 production.

Jay, a 24-year-old banker, told the Examiner that he got a message from the producer asking if he would take part after answering an application posed by the team on Instagram.

The application asked what the individuals’ networth was, what they buy and what models of cars they own.

’She told me "You qualify for the privileged background",’ he said.

The team took an interest in his family’s wealth with his dad being a director of operations for a private plane management company and his grandfather’s net worth.

’After several interviews they assessed whether I was going to be someone worth filming. They thought I was pretty funny and put me down to be filmed.

’They didn’t mention what the filming was for. I thought maybe it was going to be something similar to Made in Chelsea.’

It was later explained that he would be leaving everything behind for a number of days to see what being homeless is really like. Agreeing to be filmed, he was ’dumped’ without his phone, bank cards and forms of identification.

In the documentary, he said: ’I think people on the streets can be lazy, more often than not, quite dirty and lacking drive in life. I want to show people it can be easy getting off the streets, if you’ve got all the time in the world you should have time to make a plan and action it.

’Give up the drugs and you’ll end up somewhere better.’

Dropped off at King’s Cross with nothing more than a sleeping bag, he was followed by a camera crew which kept at a distance, along with a security team, to capture the real reactions of those he encountered while trying to make ends meet.

By the end of the first night, he made £25 by approaching people telling them he had recently been made homeless.

His attempts to make money the next day by selling hand-made spoon sculptures left him feeling frustrated as no one paid interest.

’There’s a lot of people looking at me like filth,’ he tells the crew.

The University of Cambridge graduate later meets Reece, a 20-year-old who has been on the streets for eight months and is dependent on crack and heroin.

Reece tells Jay that he ended up on the streets after being sexually abused.

It’s something Jay said resonated with him as he had been raped twice.

In the end, Jay tells the crew that his perspective has changed.

He said: ’No one wants to be a homeless person.

’Anyone who ends up a homeless person has ended up there because things have gone badly wrong.

’Life is a bit of a gamble.’

He told the Examiner the experience ’definitely’ changed his opinion of homelessness.

’It was very difficult to get the basics and people don’t want to associate with you when you’re dressed differently,’ he said.

’My brother kept giving me tactics before filming, but everything you have in theory goes out the window when you’re tired, hungry and wet.

’It starts getting very bleak.’

Since filming ended Jay has befriended a local homeless person and has been looking at way to make donations to people who have been made homeless due to sexual abuse.

Watch the episode here: www.my5.tv/rich-kids-go-homeless/season-2/episode-4