{"id":4039,"date":"2023-11-26T10:19:48","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T10:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/i-dont-drink-alcohol-trying-to-quit-smoking-charly-boy\/"},"modified":"2023-11-26T10:19:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T10:19:48","slug":"i-dont-drink-alcohol-trying-to-quit-smoking-charly-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/i-dont-drink-alcohol-trying-to-quit-smoking-charly-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I don\u2019t drink alcohol, trying to quit smoking\u2019 \u2013 Charly Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Veteran singer, Charles Oputa, popularly known as Charly Boy, has disclosed that he doesn\u2019t drink alcohol.<\/p>\n<p>He said he has also been trying to quit smoking but often found himself struggling with the addiction.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in a recent interview with actress Iyabo Ojo, the maverick singer admitted that he takes a bit of alcoholic wine but maintained that he is not a regular drinker.<\/p>\n<p>The 73-year-old said his fitness is due to genetic factors and his lifestyle, noting that his parents and grandparents lived long.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cI was lucky enough to form the habit of always going to the gym and looking after my physical wellbeing. You know, people in the [entertainment] industry a lot of things are speculated about them. But I don\u2019t drink. I\u2019ve never drank [alcohol] in my life. Except you add small wine to it sometimes when I feel like socialising [laughs].<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m trying to give up my nicotine [smoking] habit. Because it\u2019s really not good for me. The longest I\u2019ve abstained I think was about seven years. I\u2019ve been having battles with it back and forth. I quit sometimes, I come back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I don\u2019t drink alcohol, trying to quit smoking\u2019 \u2013 Charly Boy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran singer, Charles Oputa, popularly known as Charly Boy, has disclosed that he doesn\u2019t drink alcohol. He said he has&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5380,5381,4,15],"tags":[5382,930,5383,171,180],"class_list":["post-4039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alcohol","category-charly-boy","category-entertainment","category-news","tag-alcohol","tag-boy","tag-charly","tag-entertainment","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}