Oh my God, they’re all at it. Or, rather, not at it. Anne Hathaway is going sober for 18 years. Ugh. Legendary boozer (and Rolling Stones guitarist) Keith Richards has given up drink because he “just got fed up with it”. Calvin Harris told the world he’d given up on the Jack Daniel’s (to be fair, he was downing two bottles a night and risking his life). And to top it all, Kate Moss, nicknamed the Tank for her ability to polish off the prosecco, is teetotal.
Call me a romantic, but I’m not interested in celebrity sobriety. Yes, booze-free may be the new Botox, but I’m happy with the model’s skin as it was back in the day, when she was getting well and truly mossed. Not drinking may be a wonderful anti-ageing technique, but what’s wrong with a few wrinkly signifiers of a life well lived? More to the point, why on earth do these stars want to go on so bloody long in the first place? Surely, Kate ’n’ Keef remember what a horrible life the immortal struldbruggs had in Gulliver’s Travels. (As Moss’s former boyfriend and stimulant enthusiast extraordinaire Pete Doherty sang: “Fuck forever.”)
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