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.” Adrian Chiles 'horrified' at drinking 100 alcohol units a week". BBC News. 21 August 2018 . Retrieved 10 September 2018. In January 2018, he was moved to Fridays only and the title was changed to Chiles on Friday, with Emma Barnett hosting from Monday to Thursday under the title The Emma Barnett Show, although the content remains essentially the same. The popular broadcaster and columnist sets out to discover the unsung pleasures of drinking in moderation. 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.

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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] If you’re drinking more than 50 units a week. and think 14 is a ludicrous impossibility but you're developing diseases, just cut down to 30. GPs won't say this but they should. Some diversionary tactics will ensure none of your 500 friends will notice and disown you. If you can drop to 30 units, your health will improve enormously! I read some stuff. Don't waste good drinking time trying to get down to 14 units. It's stupid. You'll be boring. Don't be teetotal, unless you're a famous comedian. Do NOT try to drink 'occasionally', unless you're not one of my 500 friends. 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 began writing a regular column for The Guardian in February 2019. [37] He confirmed his relationship with the newspaper's editor, Katharine Viner, in an interview with The Daily Telegraph in April 2020, saying "I’ve got a horror of talking about relationships. I don’t mind saying I’m with Kath." [34] Chiles has said that the relationship began as a result of him writing the column and not the other way around, though Will Self has questioned this. [38] I know all this, but I still worry. There’s something unsettling – as well as reassuring – in the increase in diagnosis and medication. When I type “ADD diagnosis” into Google, the first thing to come up is an ad for a Harley Street place offering “online diagnosis for ADHD today”. And further down the search suggestions are the words: “To be diagnosed with ADHD your child must have six or more symptoms of inattentiveness, or six or more symptoms of hyperactivity and impulsiveness.”

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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. In January 2011, Chiles began presenting That Sunday Night Show on ITV, which returned for a second series in September 2011 and a third in January 2012. [ citation needed] BBC Radio 4 - Brexit: Bewitched, Bothered or Bewildered". BBC. Archived from the original on 7 January 2019. McMurray, Niall (10 March 2017). "Kirsty MacColl – Terry". Into the Popvoid . Retrieved 19 July 2020.There were a few figures and facts that stood out to me. Although, also a few that felt incredibly obvious and common sense. It never felt overly preachy or overly "self-help", as it was littered with enough personal and other stories to keep it enjoyable whilst trying to give an argument for moderation. Adrian Chiles bids farewell in final appearance on The One Show, The Daily Telegraph (London), 1 May 2010 Most kisses in one minute-world record set by DJ Paul Winstanley World Records Academy, 6 March 2009

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First book of the year as I wasn't entirely sure where to start but this stood out to me. As someone who enjoyed Chiles' 2018 documentary Dry January after a rather Wet December has been the sort of moderate conversation I've always really wanted to have with someone. 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. Edmondson won the 2013 BBC One cookery series of Celebrity MasterChef. In 2014, Edmondson presented Ade at Sea, a factual six-part programme for the ITV network which follows Ade in Britain. In 2014, he played DCI Warner in the three-part mini-series Prey. 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. Some Of The Corpses Are Amusing". Web.ukonline.co.uk. Archived from the original on 20 December 2008 . Retrieved 12 March 2009.

All the experts tell him to stop. “We know a third of the people coming into the unit with alcohol-related liver damage do not meet the criteria for alcoholism,” says David Nutt, the renowned neuropsychopharmacologist (“not easy to say after a unit or two”). Half of people who drink do it to deal with anxiety and depression, he says.

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Fletcher, Alex (28 April 2010). "Ten Things About... Adrian Chiles". Digital Spy. Archived from the original on 19 December 2019 . Retrieved 29 July 2016. He played the role of Gordon in the 2013 Chichester Festival Theatre production of Neville's Island. In 2014, he reprised the role for the show's West End run. [15] In 2015, Edmondson voiced Stanley the Dachshund in adverts for health and life insurance company Vitality. [16]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. Edmondson married comedian Jennifer Saunders on 11 May 1985. [32] They have three daughters, musician Ella, actress Beattie, and designer/stylist Freya. [33] He is a supporter of Exeter City. [34] Filmography [ edit ] Film [ edit ] Year In 1985 Edmondson starred with his wife Jennifer Saunders in Happy Families, a rural comedy drama written by Ben Elton, which appeared on the BBC and told the story of the dysfunctional Fuddle family. [8] On 23 November 2009, Chiles released a 2 Good 2 Bad: The World Cup DVD based on the popular segment from Match of the Day 2. [27]