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Article: The new sobriety ; Celebrities like Ronnie Wood and Peaches Geldof continue to hit the headlines over their drinking yet, as Rob Sharp explains, a large section of society is now giving up alcohol
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- Belfast Telegraph
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- July 25, 2008
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Never has being dry been more fashionable. Sobriety is in vogue -
and in Celebrityland, everyone's at it. Perhaps it's a sign of the
times; a psychosocial response to the credit crunch, a reaction
against the millennial excesses of the early Noughties. But
suddenly, it seems, clean-living role models are all around us.
For every pie-eyed party animal pictured leaving Chinawhite at
3am, there's a Chris Martin, a Natasha Kaplinsky, a Catherine Tate.
Amy Winehouse may still be keeping the gossip columnists busy, but
more and more of her partners in pop are sticking to the San
Pellegrino.
Little Britain's David Walliams is never seen with anything other
than mineral water in hand. Former Blue ...