The Good Drinker: How I Learned to Love Drinking Less

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Most kisses in one minute-world record set by DJ Paul Winstanley World Records Academy, 6 March 2009 The popular broadcaster and columnist sets out to discover the unsung pleasures of drinking in moderation. By the time he was in sixth form, with his parents working abroad, Edmondson began to enjoy himself, "which involved lots of drinking and smoking and petty acts of vandalism." He made some good friends at the school and had a favourite teacher, Michael Aubrey. 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. BBC Two commissions Hooligans' Island with Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson". BBC Media Centre. 23 August 2012 . Retrieved 23 August 2012.

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Chiles co-presented Christine and Adrian's Friendship Test, a three-part documentary series with Christine Lampard. [14] The series was broadcast on BBC Northern Ireland in November 2017. [15] He calculated that if he lined up every drink he’d ever had it would stretch over three miles. “A lot of the drinking was just pointless. The real tragedy is if I looked at how many of those were drinks I really wanted, needed or enjoyed I think it’s only about a third of them. So I cut the pointless drinks out. I just thought which drinks do I really need, want and enjoy and try and restrict myself to them.” Wilmut, Roger (1989). Didn't You Kill My Mother In Law?- the story of alternative comedy in Britain from the Comedy Store to Saturday Night Live. UK: Methuen. pp.57–58. ISBN 0-413-17390-9. In 2010, he founded the Idiot Bastard Band with Simon Brint, Rowland Rivron, Neil Innes and Phill Jupitus. The Idiot Bastard Band perform original comedy songs as well as cover versions, and their shows often feature guest performers. The group continued to perform following the death of Brint in 2011. [31] Personal life [ edit ]He appeared on the second series of Al Murray's Happy Hour as himself, and also had a cameo as himself in Series Two of That Mitchell and Webb Look. [ citation needed] He also directed and appeared in "International Rescue" (1989) by Fuzzbox [27] and appeared in the music video " Terry" (1983) by Kirsty MacColl. [28] In August 2018, Chiles presented a BBC Two documentary entitled Drinkers Like Me in which he admitted to regularly drinking in excess of 100 units of alcohol per week [16] and investigated why alcohol had become such a big part of his life. As part of the programme, a doctor carried out a Fibroscan liver test on him, which produced a score of 8.9, indicating mild/moderate fibrosis of the liver and significant hepatic steatosis.

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Edmondson played the role of Captain Hook in the Canterbury Marlowe Arena pantomime during its Christmas 2009 run. White, Peter (6 October 2021). "Damian Lewis & Guy Pearce Lead Cold War Limited Series 'A Spy Among Friends' For Spectrum Originals & BritBox UK". Deadline . Retrieved 1 March 2022. 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 wrote the non-fiction book The Good Drinker: How I Learned to Love Drinking Less, published in October 2022. [29] [30] Personal lifeOn 6 September 2010, he made his first appearance on Daybreak, ITV's new breakfast television programme. [20] The show failed to capture a larger market share than its competitor Breakfast, and on 18 November 2011 it was announced that Chiles would be axed from the show. He was replaced by Dan Lobb. [21] 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. In his early career at the BBC, Chiles became an assistant producer and, by 1993, was presenting Radio 4's Financial World Tonight. Some Of The Corpses Are Amusing". Web.ukonline.co.uk. Archived from the original on 20 December 2008 . Retrieved 12 March 2009.

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Adrian Chiles leaves The One Show with hug for Christine Bleakley, Daily Record (Glasgow), 1 May 2010Having 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. Chiles, Adrian (2007). We Don't Know What We're Doing: Adventures with the extraordinary fans of an ordinary team. Sphere. ISBN 978-1-84744-013-6. In terms of advice on cutting down, he says ultimately it’s about being mindful. “The main thing is to count units, and not judge yourself. Use an app like Drink Less. Don’t judge yourself, don’t worry yourself stupid, just monitor it.” McMurray, Niall (10 March 2017). "Kirsty MacColl – Terry". Into the Popvoid . Retrieved 19 July 2020. After a meeting that went on for hours, I was finally told what it was all about. I was being interviewed for a job at MI5 | Adrian Chiles". the Guardian. 9 November 2022 . Retrieved 16 November 2022.

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Before going to university he was a keen amateur actor, appearing in the Crescent Theatre's musical production of Mary O'Malley's Once A Catholic and Sandy Wilson's The Cheese. After university, while waiting for his broken leg to heal from an amateur football incident, he applied for and failed both Civil Service exams, before being asked to apply for MI5 — he failed the second interview. [4] He studied journalism at Cardiff and then worked as a sports reporter for the News of the World. [5] Television BBC 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..' 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. Lewis, Rebecca (5 July 2018). "First look at comedy giants Bill Bailey and Adrian Edmondson in The Big Bad Fox And Other Tales". metro.co.uk. Metro News . Retrieved 21 May 2023. From 2006 until 2009, Chiles presented the spin-off series of the popular UK television show The Apprentice called The Apprentice: You're Fired! in which he interviews the latest candidate to be fired. [6] He left the BBC in 2009, and was replaced by Dara Ó Briain.The thought of never drinking alcohol frightens me as there are so many social and cultural influences around us to drink alcohol and similarly to Adrian, the happy times of my life have been about socialising and drinking with friends. It is certainly easier to be at an event where you know no one to have a glass of wine in hand. However, the glass of wine after a hard day at work (oh poor me working in a book shop) I can generally do without, they've become a habit and the "hard day at work" is just an excuse. 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. Then he made the documentary. “For the first time ever, I did what I now recommend everyone to do, which is to record how much you’re drinking. On the first day I’d gone to the football, then to a party, and didn’t feel particularly drunk and it didn’t feel like a big drinking day but I’d done 36 units. I thought, ‘hang on there’s something wrong here, that’s a monstrous amount’.”



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