The Good Drinker: How I Learned to Love Drinking Less

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On 23 January 2015, it was announced that Chiles had left his role as ITV's football host with immediate effect. [23] He has not returned to the channel since.

He began presenting and producing his own show Chiles on Saturday for Radio 5 Live, which was awarded the sports category gold medal at the Sony Radio Academy Awards in 2002. Adrian Chiles is the sixth celebrity contestant confirmed for the Strictly Christmas special 2021". bbc.co.uk/mediacentre . Retrieved 25 December 2021.Adrian Chiles 'horrified' at drinking 100 alcohol units a week". BBC News. 21 August 2018 . Retrieved 10 September 2018. He has since created, scripted and fronted a variety of other programmes for the BBC including, for BBC Two, the 2003 series So What Do You Do All Day? – a look at the lives of the rich and famous – and Asian Millionaires. For BBC One he created and fronted Royal Millions, an investigation of the Queen's finances, as well as reports for Panorama and various documentaries.

Chiles' experience from Financial World Tonight led to him fronting the BBC Two business show Working Lunch, where he came to popular notice. We want our comments to be a lively and valuable part of our community - a place where readers can debate and engage with the most important local issues. The ability to comment on our stories is a privilege, not a right, however, and that privilege may be withdrawn if it is abused or misused. The book is for people who like drinking. “The point is you can drink less and enjoy it more. If you boil it down to drinks you enjoy, you will enjoy your drinking more; there’s no doubt of that in my mind.” Chiles was born in Quinton, Birmingham, to an English father and Croatian mother, and moved a few miles away to Hagley, Worcestershire at the age of four. [2] His Birmingham accent is a feature of his presentations. He also speaks Croatian, despite having a self-confessed imperfect understanding of the language's verbs, declensions, and cases. [3] Chiles started his education at Haybridge High School, and then worked in his father's scaffolding business, before graduating with a degree in English literature from the University of London (studying at Westfield College, now part of Queen Mary, University of London). [2]AC: I wish someone had told me – no, I’m blaming other people – I wish I’d been intelligent enough as a teenager to hear: alcohol is a drug, it is addictive, it can lead you into problems and, above all, it’s not the be-all and end-all. You can have a good time without drinking. Adrian Chiles: What I’d realised, writing the book, is that there are people working out there who talk about harm reduction. They don’t talk like therapists. They don’t say: “We need to get to the inner cause of your drinking.” They say: “Whatever it takes to get your consumption down.” But I’m absolutely clear that moderation isn’t for everybody; that abstinence may be the simplest way for some people, or the only way. He blames ‘social norming’ for binge drinking. “We all think everybody drinks too much, but half the adult population never go to pubs or clubs. The figures show about 70per cent of people do drink within the guidelines. The problem is, drinkers like me surround ourselves with other drinkers. So, every greeting card you see has drink on the card. We’re only choosing to see the other drinkers.” Most kisses in one minute-world record set by DJ Paul Winstanley World Records Academy, 6 March 2009

Published: 12 Oct 2023 Remember when parents thought kids didn’t need seatbelts? Today’s mums and dads aren’t any smarter JR: The night I stopped, what followed was really hard, traumatic work. But that first feeling was complete relief. It was like I’d stepped out of the boxing ring. That relief, I never have to think about whether I can drink again, because I’ve decided not to. Adam Sisman`s definitive biography, published in 2015, revealed much about the elusive spy-turned-novelist; yet le Carré was adamant that some subjects should remain hidden, at least during his lifetime. #TheSecretLifeOfJohnLeCarré is the story of what was left out, and offers reflections on the difficult relationship between biographer and subject. More than that, it adds a necessary coda to the life and work of this complex, driven, restless man.In October 2014, he became the Monday and Tuesday host of new programme 5 Live Daily from 10 am to 1 pm; with Peter Allen, and subsequently Emma Barnett, hosting Wednesday to Friday. Chiles describes himself as "almost vegan". [42] He has a urinal in his flat and has written about the mixed reactions it receives. [43] Charity work