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French actor Gerard Depardieu, 65, admits to drinking 14 bottles of wine a day

French actor Gerard Depardieu, 65, admits to drinking 14 bottles of wine a day – despite having a quintuple heart bypass

Actor told a French film magazine: ‘I can’t drink like a normal person’
He also enjoys beer, pastis, champagne, vodka and whiskey during the day
65-year-old says that he ‘never gets drunk’ despite voluminous intake

Published: 02:55 EST, 17 September 2024

Gerard Depardieu, the titan of French cinema and renowned bon vivant, claims he sometimes drinks up to 14 bottles of wine a day.
Even a quintuple heart bypass operation 14 years ago does not seem to have tempered the actor’s drinking, nor a serious motorcycle crash while over the legal limit.
The 65-year-old Frenchman’s fondness for wine is such that he runs his own award-winning vineyard in the Medoc.
He told French magazine So Film: ‘I can’t drink like a normal person. I can absorb 12, 13, 14 bottles per day.

Wine lover: Gerard Depardieu during a visit to the ‘Vinexpo’ international wine fair in Bordeaux, south-western France in 2024. He runs his own award-winning vineyard in the Medoc

‘In the morning, it starts at home with champagne or red wine before 10am, then again champagne.’
Gerard said he breaks up the wine intake with a little aniseed liqueur pastis.

He added: ‘Then food, accompanied by two bottles of wine.

‘In the afternoon, champagne, beer and more pastis at around 5pm, to finish off the bottle.
‘Later on, vodka and/or whisky. But I’m never totally drunk, just a little p*****d.
‘All you need is a 10-minute nap and voila, a slurp of rose wine and I feel as fresh as a daisy.
‘Anyway, I’m not going to die. Not now. I still have energy.’

Previously Depardieu made headlines after he was banned from an Air France flight for urinating in the aisle as it prepared to take off, forcing the plane to turn back to its parking spot.
A passenger on the flight said Depardieu appeared to be drunk and insisted he be allowed to use the bathroom during takeoff, when passengers must remain seated.

Gérard Depardieu cuts a slovenly figure with unkempt tresses as he sports personalised gilet around New York

Published: 11:47 EST, 8 December 2024

Gérard, 65, dressed down for a trip into New York City, even braving the cold in a matching short-sleeved polo top.

Dressed down: Gerard Depardieu hit the streets of New York City in a personalised gilet with his name on it on Sunday afternoon

The 20-stone actor neglected his grooming regime, leaving thin strands of untamed hair around the sides of his tinted shades.

Sum 41 frontman spends a month in hospital, blames heavy drinking

TORONTO – The frontman for Canadian punk band Sum 41 says a health scare has forced him to swear off alcohol.

Deryck Whibley has posted on his ***site that he has been sick for the past few weeks, including spending a month in hospital.

He says it’s because of the "hard boozing" he has been doing over the years.

Whibley says he was at home one night about a month ago when he collapsed, falling to the ground unconscious.

Whibley, who was once married to singer Avril Lavigne, says his liver and kidneys "collapsed."

He says the health crisis has forced him to make drastic lifestyle changes.

"Needless to say it scared me straight," he said in the posting that is dated May 16.

"I finally realized I can’t drink anymore. If I have one drink the docs say I will die."

There is one positive thing that has emerged from his health problems, Whibley said.

"I have my passion and inspiration back for writing music," he writes.

"I already have a few song ideas for new songs. Soon it will be time to start making an album and getting back to touring again."

Sum 41 was formed in 1996. The Ajax, Ont., band has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide and has won two Junos.

Source: https://ca.celebrity.yahoo.com/news/…211524535

Congratulations, You Are Drinking Lots of Arsenic In Your Cheap Wine

In news that will fuck up Your weekend and Your Wine cellar (if you’ve got one but who’s got one?!): a class-action lawsuit was filed on Thursday against 28 California wineries for containing high levels of arsenic. Time now to graduate to fancy wine, or at the very least steer very clear from two-buck-chucks and Franzia.

Mother Jones reports:

According to the complaint, three independent laboratories tested the wines and found that some contained levels of Arsenic "up to 500% or more than what is what is considered the maximum acceptable safe daily intake limit. Put differently, just a glass or two of these arsenic-contaminated wines a day over time could result in dangerous Arsenic toxicity to the consumer."

I don’t even understand what consuming 500% more of anything feels like, except maybe a Franzia hangover?

The origins of the lawsuit draw back to Kevin Hicks, a former Wine distributor who started BeverageGrades, a Denver-based lab that analyzes wine. The lab tested 1,300 bottles of California wine, and found that about a quarter of them had higher levels of Arsenic than the maximum limit that the Environmental Protection Agency allows in water. Hicks noticed a trend: As he told CBS, "The lower the price of Wine on a per-liter basis, the higher the amount of arsenic." Trader Joe’s Charles Shaw White Zinfandel came in at three times the EPA’s level, while Franzia’s White Grenache was five times higher. The lawsuit alleges that the contaminated wines are cheaper in part because their producers don’t "implement the proper methods and processes to reduce inorganic arsenic."

But the aggrieved are coming against these allegations with Wine bottles blazing, cuz reputation:

Wine industry groups have begun to contest the lawsuit’s contentions and motive. The California Wine trade group, the Wine Institute, released astatement saying, "While there are no established limits in the U.S., several countries, including the European Union, have established limits of 100 parts per billion or higher for wine. California Wine exports are tested by these governments and are below the established limits." A representative of The Wine Group, one of the defendants, says that the plaintiffs "decided to file a complaint based on misleading and selective information in order to defame responsible California winemakers, create unnecessary fear, and distort and deceive the public for their own financial gain."

I’m unconvinced and taking a skrong stance against arsenic.