Ashley Cain visits harmful cities in new tv sequence

The previous Coventry Metropolis player-turned-reality star Ashley Cain has stepped into a number of the world’s most hazardous cities as a part of new factual sequence Ashley Cain: Into the Hazard Zone.

The six-part sequence sees Mr Cain discover the problems confronted by younger males born right into a life on the fringes of society, the place criminality has change into a type of survival.

The 34-year-old from Nuneaton skilled what it was wish to be beneath the watch of the cartel in Colombia, visited a jail rife with gangs within the Philippines, and noticed unlawful poaching in South Africa.

Mr Cain stated the sequence is not only about hazard but in addition perspective and unfiltered actuality.

He credited his daughter Azaylia, who died from a uncommon type of leukaemia in April 2021, for the alternatives and doorways that had been opened for him.

“I would not be doing a single factor that I am doing now, I would not have achieved something that I’ve achieved up to now 4 years if it wasn’t for her.

“I bought to listen to from individuals who do not have alternative, who do not have possibilities, who’ve been excluded from society, on all that they want and it isn’t lots.”

The 34-year-old stated he wished to try to undertake the issues he had learnt whereas making the sequence and put them in place within the UK.

“There’s a variety of poverty right here, there’s a variety of hassle and violence right here, I simply need to try to make the world a greater place,” he added.

Mr Cain stated the Brazilian favelas have been the scariest place he visited however added: “It was additionally essentially the most unbelievable and phenomenal place, I dreamed of going there since I used to be a child”.

He added that his experiences meant he was “the fitting individual for the job”.

“I have been introduced up being uncovered to sure issues the place I may have simply gone into a lifetime of crime.

“I’ve had a variety of traumatic experiences which have induced me a variety of ache and heartache that might have made me indignant and bitter in direction of the world.

“I do not assume you might have a picked a greater individual to enter these conditions,” he stated.

Ashley Cain: Into the Hazard Zone shall be aired on BBC Three at 21:00 BST on Tuesday and all episodes can be found on BBC iPlayer.