Rolling Stones star Ronnie Wood has been staying off the booze with a little help from his celebrity pals.
Wood, 62, has been battling an addiction to alcohol and said he was afraid he’d end up back in rehab when he was given anti-craving drugs.
But his bandmate Mick Jagger and friends Sir Elton John and Rod Stewart have reportedly been helping him by offering words of support.
According to UK newspaper The Sun, he said to a friend: “Now I know everyone’s behind me, I’m desperate to give up for good. Mick Jagger calls me every few days.”
A barman to the stars will publish a tell-all memoir about the celebrities he has met on the island of Mustique.
“My book will shock the high society of Mustique as it will tell the truth about celebrities at play,” said Basil Charles, 62, who is also known as The King of Mustique. Charles has served drinks to the likes of the Beckhams, Mick Jagger, Amy Winehouse, Kate Moss and Princess Margaret.
He says he has no fear about breaking the island’s famous code of silence. “There will be revelations in the book, some of them shocking, but I’m not afraid to write it. Why should I be?” he said.
Georgia May Jagger, a daughter of rocker Mick, has posed topless in a major US modelling campaign.
Georgia, 17, appears in a photo shoot for Hudson jeans. She appears in one photo with her boyfriend, Django James, the 18-year-old son of musician Dave Stewart.
Sir Mick was known to have reacted with horror when her older sister Elizabeth took to the catwalk in a see-through dress. She was 20 when she made the appearance during London Fashion Week in 2005.
Hudson spokesman David Lipman said of Georgia: “It’s all about the heritage of having Mick Jagger as a dad and Jerry Hall as a mum. But more than anything, it’s her spirit that captivates me.”
Sir Mick, 65, is said to question her modelling. On the other hand, Georgia’s mother, a supermodel in her day, has given her approval. Georgia said: “She [Hall] always says, ‘Be nice to everyone, even if you don’t like it. Just be nice and gracious. And don’t show your bum’.”
A friend of Sir Mick’s, commenting about Elizabeth in 2004, said: “No father likes to see his daughter baring her breasts to the public and Mick, for all his own louche ways, is no exception.”
He is as famous for his sexual conquests as for his youthful strutting on stage . . . despite being 64.
And Mick Jagger reckons that sex and rock ’n’ roll have something in common — you can have too much of both of them.
The Rolling Stones legend says: “Rock ’n’ roll and playing live is very addictive. But you have to really be careful, because you don’t want to do it all the time. It’s like when you are young and you think if you are not having sex you’re wasting your time. But as you get older you realise everything has its place. It’s the same thing with performing.
“You don’t want to be thinking if you are not gigging, ‘Why am I not performing? I’m just going out to dinner with my friends, how boring is that? I should be out on stage’. Performing is a great thing to do but you don’t want to have to be doing it every night.”
Keith Richards has warned Amy Winehouse to stay away from drugs.
The Rolling Stones rocker – who has previously battled a heroin addiction – says the troubled ‘Rehab’ singer needs to kick her dangerous habit before it ’s too late. The 64-year-old guitarist, who once infamously joked he had snorted his father’s ashes, said: “She should get her act together.”
The band’s frontman Mick Jagger, who was briefly jailed in 1967 for possessing drugs, has also advised young stars not to follow in the Stones’ notorious footsteps.
Speaking at the Berlin premiere of Rolling Stones documentary ‘Shine a Light ‘, Mick said: “When we were experimenting with drugs, little was known about the effects. In our time there were no rehab centres. Anyway I did not know about them.”
Mick, 64, has previously expressed concern for Amy’s wellbeing saying: “I’m worried she might die if she goes down the road she has taken.”
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