Chiles' experience from Financial World Tonight led to him fronting the BBC Two business show Working Lunch, where he came to popular notice. 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.

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]What I learnt from 46 consecutive days in church". BBC News. British Broadcasting Corporation. 24 May 2015 . Retrieved 24 May 2015. Adrian Chiles 'horrified' at drinking 100 alcohol units a week". BBC News. 21 August 2018 . Retrieved 10 September 2018. Charles, Adrian (21 April 2022). "I have a urinal in my flat and it has changed my life – so why are people appalled?". the Guardian . Retrieved 25 April 2022. JR: At the heart of this is one of the useful definitions of an alcoholic as opposed to a heavy drinker. When you take the first drink, are you able to limit your drinking from that point onwards? You talk about drinking two pints of Stella mixed with spring water as part of your moderation. That would be absolutely impossible for me to do, because once I have one drink, I then drink to exactly the same point every time.

In January 2011, Chiles began presenting That Sunday Night Show on ITV, which returned for a second series in September 2011 and a third in January 2012. [ citation needed] In November 2013, Chiles returned to Radio 5 Live, co-presenting Drive on Fridays with Anna Foster. 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?Secrecy came naturally to John le Carré, and there were some secrets that he fought fiercely to keep, nowhere more so than in his private life. Seemingly content in his marriage, the novelist conducted a string of love affairs over four decades. To keep these relationships secret, he made use of tradecraft that he had learned as a spy: code names and cover stories, cut outs, safe houses and dead letter boxes. In his early career at the BBC, Chiles became an assistant producer and, by 1993, was presenting Radio 4's Financial World Tonight. 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.

All the experts tell him to stop. “We know a third of the people coming into the unit with alcohol-related liver damage do not meet the criteria for alcoholism,” says David Nutt, the renowned neuropsychopharmacologist (“not easy to say after a unit or two”). Half of people who drink do it to deal with anxiety and depression, he says.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. Adrian Chiles leaves The One Show with hug for Christine Bleakley, Daily Record (Glasgow), 1 May 2010

Chiles was the World Record holder for highest number of kisses received in 60 seconds from 2007 until 2009, with 78. [24] [25] 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] Adrian Chiles bids farewell in final appearance on The One Show, The Daily Telegraph (London), 1 May 2010 The book is for people who like drinking. “The point is you can drink less and enjoy it more. If you boil it down to drinks you enjoy, you will enjoy your drinking more; there’s no doubt of that in my mind.” Chiles married Jane Garvey, a former regular presenter of Woman's Hour on Radio 4, in September 1998 in Swansea. Chiles and Garvey have two daughters. In June 2008, the couple separated; they divorced in October 2009. [31] Chiles married [32] Guardian editor Kath Viner in 2022. [33]In 2020, Chiles revealed in his Guardian column that he had been diagnosed with ADD. He wrote that his condition is being successfully treated with prescription drugs, after he had initially disregarded his symptoms. [41]