Jools Holland loves pubs, hates people who tell us what (not) to do

Jools Holland was featured last week in Seven, the Sunday Telegraph's arts and culture supplement, in a column that invites well known people to list their "loves and hates". Two things that the musician and TV presenter professed to hating were the demise of the pub and people who interfere:

"I used to love going to a smoky pub with a piano and a landlady ... The whole world and his wife would be there. That's all gone now and landlords have been replaced with managers.

"I don't like it when people poke their noses into other people's business and say 'don't smoke' or 'don't eat too much'. Why don't they just go and have whatever they want to have, whenever they want to have it, and leave the rest of us to a cigarette and a pie?"

Comments

[jon]

OMG, another successful, talented happy smoker. The world's gone mad. And apparently he married an aristocrat who's pretty hot. How did the dog-breathed saddo addict manage that?

[Martin V]

Good ol' Jools ! One more voice to add to the growing chorus of dissent...................