Gambling News by House of Odds

How did you go from presenting the news to sleeping on the street? The debt, alcoholism and the eventual sleeping rough all happened by degrees. It was thousands and thousands of small, subconscious bad decisions, influenced mostly by alcohol. Getting sacked from the business news channel CNBC meant I'd gone from 80,000 a year to zero and I'd been juggling what must have been 25 credit .

You might not have heard of Neopets. A website featuring virtual animals, virtual gambling and a heap of very real advertising, it remains inexplicably popular among gullible net-surfing children. But thats irrelevant: this title is Neopets in name only.