The Good Drinker: How I Learned to Love Drinking Less

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In 2008 he played Henry Austen in the BBC produced film Miss Austen Regrets and Vernon in the ITV sitcom Teenage Kicks. Chiles talks to Anushka Asthana about the impact the diagnosis has had on his life, and how it has made him reevaluate aspects of it. If you boil it down to drinks you enjoy, you will enjoy your drinking more; there’s no doubt of that in my mind.

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In 2011, he presented a series of shows for ITV: The Dales, which focused on people working in the Yorkshire Dales, and Ade in Britain in which he undertook a tour of numerous places in Britain. He’s heading back north for Ilkley Literature Festival this month, to give a talk on his new book, The Good Drinker: How I Learned to Love Drinking Less. That year, he also competed on " Comic Relief Does Fame Academy" where he made it to the finale and came in 3rd place. In 1991, he teamed with his comedy partner Rik Mayall once more, this time co-writing and co-starring in their own sitcom, Bottom.

He focuses on being practical and being forgiving of yourself - don't get too hung up on the 14 units a week guidance, drinking 30 units a week is still much better than drinking 80. 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. In 2013, Edmondson was crowned the winner of Celebrity Masterchef, and from 2019 to 2020, he appeared in the BBC soap opera EastEnders as Daniel Cook. Books telling us to give up drinking are 10 a penny, but how about something for those of us who like a social drink but are occasionally worried that two turn into four rather too easily?

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With football, like alcohol, for me it’s too big and passionate a thing to merely ‘quite enjoy’ ‘every now and then’. The 55-year-old was back on The One Show yesterday to chat about his new book – The Good Drinker: How I Learned to Love Drinking Less. He was part of the alternative comedy boom in the early 1980s and had roles in the television series The Young Ones (1982–1984) and Bottom (1991–1995), which he wrote together with his collaborator Rik Mayall.On 6 September 2010, he made his first appearance on Daybreak, ITV's new breakfast television programme. Edmondson has directed pop videos for "Fiesta" (1988) by the Pogues, "Prime Mover" (1987) by Zodiac Mindwarp, "Like the Weather" (1988) by 10,000 Maniacs, "Please Help the Cause Against Loneliness" (1988) by Sandie Shaw and "Hourglass" by Squeeze (1987).

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This, Anita and the psychiatrist both said, was absurd thinking: the pills were just getting me up to the same operating level as everyone else. I found some of the writing style a bit 'matey' and irritating but the message was put across very well and clearly. In his early career at the BBC, Chiles became an assistant producer and, by 1993, was presenting Radio 4's Financial World Tonight. In 2011, Edmondson hosted the ITV documentary series The Dales, in which he followed a number of families who live and work in the Yorkshire Dales, including the "Yorkshire Shepherdess" Amanda Owen.The popular broadcaster and columnist sets out to discover the unsung pleasures of drinking in moderation. Perhaps he’s cut down from his past consumption but I’m not convinced the halo polishing kit needs to come out of the cupboard just yet. Cirrhosis, fatty liver and being old don't deter Chiles from moaning "I don't know what to do with people who don't drink". The key thing for me has been to learn to concentrate on doing one thing at a time, as every hour or even minute presents itself.