Adrian Chiles: I don't get as many dinner invites now I have stopped eating meat". expressandstar.com. 30 October 2018 . Retrieved 3 September 2021.

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. On 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: 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.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 AC: I just happen to have an off-switch with drinking, in a way that I don’t have with food. Left to my own devices, I can eat myself to an absolute standstill. But I wouldn’t give myself that get-out, because I’ve got, probably, a less good on-switch than you. Anything can get me to start drinking. If you’ve got an easily triggered on-switch, and no off-switch, then you really have got a problem. JR: I don’t think there’s any way, if you’re drinking 100 units a week, you can call that moderate drinking. 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. AC: I think people are led to believe that moderation isn’t possible: that if you successfully moderate, it’s because you didn’t have much of a problem in the first place. Otherwise, the ideas are very binary. People will stop you in the street and say: “I hear you’re on the wagon,” or: “Are you a friend of Bill’s?” or: “Are you still off the booze?” It doesn’t even occur to people that there could be a middle ground, either you’re completely befuddled and drunk the whole time, or you’re completely sober.

Adrian Chiles 'horrified' at drinking 100 alcohol units a week". BBC News. 21 August 2018 . Retrieved 10 September 2018.The popular broadcaster and columnist sets out to discover the unsung pleasures of drinking in moderation. Celebrity Fan Adrian Chiles Talks Everything West Brom Exclusively to TF90M TF90M – The First 90 Minutes AC: Something you said that really resonated with me, and actually made a difference to my moderation, was when you said that when you’re not drinking, you’ve got to make an extra effort with people, to be funny, and charming. I thought drinking was absolutely essential to have a good time. If you’re using that word, “essential”, you’ve got to have a look at your relationship with alcohol. In the past, you could have filled a room with all my favourite people in the world, and if I wasn’t allowed to drink, I wouldn’t really be looking forward to seeing them.

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 Chiles wrote the non-fiction book The Good Drinker: How I Learned to Love Drinking Less, published in October 2022. [29] [30] Personal life In his early career at the BBC, Chiles became an assistant producer and, by 1993, was presenting Radio 4's Financial World Tonight.

AC: And now you must talk, to some extent, about sobriety – presumably there’s not a lot of comedy in lecturing people. So how do you deal with that? AC: When you’re doing your standup, how much of the audience is under the influence? Because it’s quite a big thing with comedy. 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.

Adrian Chiles (born 21 March 1967) is a British writer and television and radio presenter. [1] He has co-presented both The One Show (2007–2010) and Daybreak (2010–2011) with Christine Lampard. He was also the chief presenter for football coverage on ITV Sport from 2010 until 2015. His journalistic training and love of football resulted in his presenting business programmes such as Working Lunch and The Money Programme as well as sports programmes like Match of the Day 2. He currently works for BBC Radio 5 Live. My treatment for ADD changed my life, so why can't I stop worrying about it? | Adrian Chiles". The Guardian. 30 September 2020 . Retrieved 1 October 2020. Chiles converted to Catholicism in 2007. [34] During Lent 2015, he attended Mass daily and at a different church each time; a total of 46 different churches in 46 days. [35] Adrian Chiles bids farewell in final appearance on The One Show, The Daily Telegraph (London), 1 May 2010He 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.” AC: Even if you take it that alcoholism exists, and there is such a thing as an alcoholic – and clinically, my understanding is that it doesn’t really exist, but I’ve stopped arguing against it – my issue has always been that if you can stop, then you drink with impunity. That was very damaging to me, because it meant that I could go on drinking 100 units a week, thinking that was fine. 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] Moderation is complicated. It’s more complicated than stopping in the sense that everyone knows you’ve stopped’ … Adrian Chiles. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian