Ted Williams gained widespread media attention when an interview made during a period when he was homeless went viral after being posted to YouTube in early January 2011. Williams subsequently received numerous job offers. He co-authored A Golden Voice: How Faith, Hard Work, and Humility Brought Me from the Streets to Salvation with Bret Witter. He is the founder of the Ted Williams Project, a non-profit organization serving homeless shelters.
In February 2012, he became ‘The Golden Voice of Love’ to promote Kraft’s Mac & Cheese in a YouTube campaign. He read selected tweeted declarations of love between 12 and 14 February.
On May 14, 2012, Williams made an appearance in an interview on the Today Show with Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb. In the interview he said he had been clean and sober for over a year, was working, and is doing well. In his recent book, A Golden Voice: How Faith, Hard Work, and Humility Brought Me from the Streets to Salvation, he reflects on his time prostituting himself and his girlfriend while abandoning his children for his cocaine addiction.
In a January 2013 segment for the Today Show, Williams revealed that he now lives in an apartment and is steadily employed as a commercial voice-over artist for Kraft Macaroni & Cheese, but admitted to still suffering strained relationships with his children. He has also started the Ted Williams Project with Kraft, a non-profit foundation that provides necessities to homeless shelters.
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