"A young filmmaker is believed to have frozen to death after spending a night sleeping rough..."

"... for a Channel 4 application in which he intended to explore what it was like to be homeless."

Lee Halpin, 26, had planned to spend a week living on the streets in his home city of Newcastle and eventually make a documentary about it.

There's video of this healthy-looking man saying:

"I hope you think this is a fearless approach to a story, it certainly feels like a brave thing to me, and has certainly caused a huge amount of trepidation amongst my family and friends who think it's a brave thing to do. ...."

There's an update at the link suggesting that the death may have been not from freezing but drugs.

("Sleeping rough" is British slang, referring to sleeping on the street.)