Ant and Dec- will it now be just Dec? Celebrity gossip alert

Its something to be aware of if you're a driver.
I'm sure a lot of people are over the limit after a late night out when they're behind the wheel the next day.

Maybe Ant just had alcohol left in his bloodstream from the night before? I've heard of several people caught out by this.

How do you define an alcoholic? A person who reaches for the bottle as soon as they wake up. A person who reaches for the bottle to ease torturous thoughts?

I can’t imagine anyone alcohol dependant volunteering to give up their passport though.

Is Ant an alcoholic though ? Or just someone who drinks heavily and got caught drunk driving ?

Doctors can only advise someone who is alcohol dependant to notify the DVLA, they have no duty to inform. The alcoholic, on informing the DVLA then has to surrender their licence. They have to wait a year, then prove they are no longer dependant before being granted a temporary (annually renewable) licence. It appears they have to be caught drinking and driving before alcoholics can be legally stopped from driving.

Drunk while on chemotherapy?!
Despair can do all kinds of things to your mind.
Of course, it's ideal not to drink whilst on chemo but who knows what someone may be thinking at the time?

But I agree, driving after drinking is inexcusable, particularly as Ant could afford a chauffeur-driven car.

Haha gillybob my sil tells my gds it’s baath not barth, they do it just to wind him up, never going to happen, he’s the most laid back man I’ve ever met!

It will never go all together Nannylovesshopping. My cousin has lived in Londonia for over 30 years and whilst the southern twang has crept in, she reverts straight back to Geordie when she comes back home.

Her late dad was mortified that his grandchildren were "Southerners" and I remember him telling me how the youngest said "look at the mewn grandad" "the bloody mewn?" he said to me "mewn?" He then spend ages teaching her to say "MOOOOON" "MOOOOON" Now that's how you say it !

My extremely handsome kind lovely sil is a Geordie and I love his accent, he’s been down south so long he’s losing it a bit now (his accent that is)

True ?

Alcohol affects thinking, I don't mean just when drunk, over a period of time it changes the way a person thinks, drunk or sober. The chemicals damage the brain.

My daughter would be far more understanding of poor old Ant, but then she was a nicer person than me, and more forgiving.
I've always been a black and white thinker.

I bet your daughter was distraught,

But that’s the point MissA. You were not in your daughter’s shoes, only she truly knows how bad she felt about the chaos she caused. But because you, as a mother, had insight into your daughter’s actions and you may be able to understand what Ant will be feeling now.

To say I was furious was an understatement, to be honest..

Black and white thinking, Jane? Walking a mile in others shoes, and all that?

It is, isn't it? So, if I am less than sympathetic to a celebrity, well, I may have my reasons.
My daughter was driving herself to chemo at the time, because there was nobody else, no relatives (apart from me - at work) and no support for her.

Hopping!

And I bet you were hoping mad at her too.

As I said, mixed emotions
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Drunk while on chemotherapy?!

Xxx

It might not affect your principles, and why should it?

But it broke your heart ? and your words ‘she looked like a tiny, frail little damaged sparrow’ oh...that is so, so sad MissA

Seeing her taken away, 25 years old, hair falling out from chemo, lop sided from having a mastectomy, a 3 week old and a toddler in the car with her. It totally and utterly broke my heart, and still does.
She looked like a tiny, frail little damaged sparrow.
So yes, I have walked a mile in some very uncomfortable shoes, but what's right is right.
I dont change my principles.
And she agreed with me too, by the way.

There must have been a real mixture of emotions towards your daughter when this happened.

Oh you've no idea! It was my mums car she crashed!!
I had to phone mother and say "those sirens you can probably hear? Well...."
It caused her a huge amount of shame and inconvenience, but its never made my black and white thinking any different.
There is no excuse when it comes down to it.