Parcel2Go.com CEO is Channel 4’s next Secret Millionaire

Millions of TV viewers are expected to tune in today to watch Bolton entrepreneur Fil Adams-Mercer feature in the next episode of Channel 4’s The Secret Millionaire.

The Secret Millionaire, in which millionaire benefactors say goodbye to their luxury lifestyles and go undercover in deprived areas to find out who needs their help, returns to our screens Monday 22nd March (Channel 4, 9pm). The programme features Parcel2Go.com’s Fil Adams-Mercer, who puts his success down to a strong work ethic.

As part of the popular show, camera crews follow Fil as he travels over the Pennines to Doncaster, where he goes undercover to find people who might need his help, reassessing his opinions about unemployment along the way.

Taking part in The Secret Millionaire can be a life-changing experience for everyone involved. Quite often, the millionaires who take part are as profoundly affected by their participation in the series as those they have donated money to.

Fil will be seen giving away cash to charities in Doncaster.

Various good causes have featured in this year's The Secret Millionaire, including Refugee Action, an independent national charity that works with refugees to build new lives in the UK, the Huntingdon's Disease Association and the Wild Goose Cafe, which is run in conjunction with Crisis Centre Ministries and is a coffee shop providing hot meals for the homeless and hidden poor in Bristol.

Fil set up Parcel2Go.com in 2000 with son Richard and colleague Steve Kramer, following the successful sale of a video rental business to Blockbuster. The firm has grown into one of the largest online parcel delivery companies in the UK.