The Good Drinker: How I Learned to Love Drinking Less

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In August 2012, the BBC announced plans for a 2013 television adaptation of Edmondson and Mayall's 1997 Hooligan's Island tour, [13] but Edmondson announced later that year that he had pulled out of the project to pursue other interests. [14] Mayall, Edmondson's long-time creative partner, died on 9 June 2014. Jane got upset during her appearance on the programme last week (Credit: BBC) Jane McDonald apologises for behaviour on The One Show

Adrian Chiles | The Guardian

An interesting, entertaining but serious examination of many peoples’ relationships with alcohol and the lies and denials involved. I've occasionally been asked why it is that I need to go for a drink before watching the Albion play. I've always answered with something lame, along the lines of, "You wanna try watching us sober" ... where does this urge come from? I've raced off to games hours early to give me a chance to drink a lot of beer in a relatively short time ... the craic is good, usually. Sometimes it isn't, Occasionally it's all rather boring. But I always make the effort. Why? Well..' Edmondson appeared on the BBC One series That's Britain! 2011. In each episode, his task was to report as an "insider" in how a region of Britain works. A one-off special, Britain Beware, about the history of British public information films, was hosted by Edmondson and aired on ITV on 7 May 2012. Edmondson had a minor role in the 2012 film Blood. Edmondson and Saunders reunited with their former Comic Strip colleagues in 2012 for a Famous Five sequel, Five Go to Rehab. It aired on 7 November on Gold. Edmondson played the role of Captain Hook in the Canterbury Marlowe Arena pantomime during its Christmas 2009 run.Fantastic, honest book. So much of what Adrian writes resonates with me. I recently spoke with a friend who told me for years she had a three drink limit on a night out and never once did she feel like she’d missed out by swapping to soft drinks after that. I thought if only I had been blessed with her will power, as I certainly could never do that! But this book has made me realise that’s utter rubbish. Of course I can do that, I’ve just never really wanted to. I do now!

The Good Drinker: How I Learned to Love Drinking Less

He thanks "the clinicians who’ve given me so much of their time sharing their expertise", but why not put some in the book? He assures us "there are mountains of scientific studies on all this" and he has done "a fair amount of reading and listening on the subject". Drinking 100s of units a week, he says, meant facing "some pretty dire consequences with my innards". Don't buy this book thinking you'll learn anything at all about the effects of alcohol on health. Following his divorce from ex-wife Jane Garvey, the Mail on Sunday reported Adrian was dating Labour MP Rosie Duffield in July 2019. Adrian previously interviewed Rosie in February in her constituency of Kent for his TV show Brexit: Who’s In Charge?.

Having had Allan Carr's The Easy Way to Control Alcohol for a few years and never had the inclination to get round to reading it, I thought I would give this a go as it seemed a bit more likely and a bit more achievable for me. This is a refreshingly honest into the Author's relationship with alcohol. While he does not conform with stereotypes of alcoholism, he certainly has/had/suffered/suffered it. And the way he discusses these issues with others who have had similar experiences but dealt with it in a variety of ways have helped provide me some techniques that may be useful at present or in the future (in areas other than alcohol). Complaints about Adrian’s behaviour come not long after Jane McDonald was forced to apologise for her own on the programme. The prose is quite chatty, but that is to be expected for what is effectively someone's memoir of their relationship with alcohol. I was almost averse to labelling this an autobiography, but there are some allusions to the slightly tougher parts of his life, both on and off the screen. Chiles tends to avoid the potential of it being self-indulgent and distracting from what is a rather consistent and well-constructed argument for moderation.