{"id":2250851,"date":"2026-01-26T11:26:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T11:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2250851"},"modified":"2026-01-26T11:26:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T11:26:18","slug":"michael-sheen-to-lead-bbc-doc-exploring-claims-of-chemical-contamination-in-his-native-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/michael-sheen-to-lead-bbc-doc-exploring-claims-of-chemical-contamination-in-his-native-wales\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Sheen to Lead BBC Doc Exploring Claims of Chemical Contamination in His Native Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0790688\/\">Michael Sheen<\/a> will lead a new <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co1075114\/\">BBC<\/a> documentary about the claims of chemical contamination in South Wales, close to where the star grew up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a story that has troubled Wales for decades, and for me, it\u2019s deeply personal,\u201d said <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm9762961\/\">Sheen<\/a> about <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1462758\/\">Buried<\/a> (w\/t), a two-part unscripted series co-produced by Wall to Wall and Smoke Trail Productions. A plot synopsis reads: \u201cAlmost ten years ago, he met researcher and whistleblower Douglas Gowan, who was trying to sound the alarm about \u2018forever chemicals\u2019 buried in the land near local farms and communities. Douglas believed the dumping of these chemicals could have a lasting impact on the people of Wales, but died before his warnings were heeded. Now Michael wants to find out if Douglas was right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The series will see the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1099212\/\">Twilight<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1869454\/\">Good Omens<\/a> actor meet families from affected communities, local councillors, environmental investigative journalists, forensic scientists,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Sheen will lead a new BBC documentary about the claims of chemical contamination in South Wales, close to where the star grew up. \u201cThis is a story that has troubled Wales for decades, and for me, it\u2019s deeply personal,\u201d said Sheen about Buried (w\/t), a two-part unscripted series co-produced by Wall to Wall and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2250852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2250851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Michael-Sheen-to-Lead-BBC-Doc-Exploring-Claims-of-Chemical.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2250851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2250853,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250851\/revisions\/2250853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2250852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2250851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2250851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2250851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}