Celebrity Traitors star Joanne McNally is the latest to criticise Steven Bartlett’s comments about drinking wine after his take caused a stir online
Celebrity Traitors’ Joanne McNally took aim at Steven Bartlett after the entrepreneur’s opinion on wine. The Dragon’s Den star, 33, said in a recent episode of his Diary Of A CEO podcast: “I had a couple of glasses of wine, didn’t get drunk, it ruined three days of my life because of the domino effect that it caused.”
He went on: “It meant that I got worse sleep that night, I ate more poorly the next day because my dopamine system or the cortisol system or whatever was all messed up.
“Then I podcasted worse and I didn’t go to the gym the day after and I could track all of this on my Whoop, hashtag ad, hashtag sponsor, investor… whatever.”
The comments caused a stir online. And now Joanne has had her say when speaking to Vogue Williams. Hitting back at the podcast comments, Joanne joked: “I hit my stride at three (drinks). I won’t podcast without having three drinks in me.”
It followed BBC Radio 1 presenter Greg James sharing his opinion. He called on his followers to ‘join [his] anti-optimisation/Bartlett cult TODAY!’
He explained that despite the obvious positives of cutting out alcohol, he wasn’t in agreement about cutting it out and monitoring everything so closely.
He said: “So I’ve sort of been railing against this for years. Not the alcohol thing, fair enough if you want to give up alcohol, it can ruin lives, got that – that’s not what my issue is.
“My issue is this endless optimisation and measuring of everything to the point where it starts to make you feel a bit miserable if you don’t quite hit your own targets.”
As Greg held up his own book, All The Best For The Future, he said he would be selling it for 99p for one day. And he said: “Essentially this is the anti-Bartlett.
“You can have ambitions and goals and get good at a skill and do well in your life professionally and also have a great time. Not everything has to be like work; you can be on and then you can be off.
“And this is a reminder to go and have a nice time! Go and see your friends, do a nice trip, call your mum. Do something just for you,’ he added, signing off stating that that ‘optimisation is killing fun.’
Like this story? For more of the latest showbiz news and gossip, follow Mirror Celebs on TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Threads.
Disclaimer : This story is auto aggregated by a computer programme and has not been created or edited by DOWNTHENEWS. Publisher: mirror.co.uk
