FOR a recovering alcoholic, Frank Skinner’s choice of the Freemason’s Arms as an interview venue might seem something of a temptation. Yet, without even a glance at the optics, the comic whose day used to begin with several shots of Pernod says the closest he’s come to relapsing recently is sniffing booze. 7 Hit comedian Frank Skinner, sporting a Superman watch on his wrist Credit: Dan Charity 7 Frank at a gala with partner Cath Mason – mum to their son Buzz – in 2018 Credit: Getty 7 Frank with Three Lions pals Ian Broudie, left, and David Baddiel in 1998 Credit: PA:Press Association “I stayed in a flat in Edinburgh a couple of years ago and they had put a complimentary decanter of whisky in there,” he tells me.
“I had a sniff of it every day. “It smelled great. “But I kept it at the nose, it never went on the lips.
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“The Sun mocked me up in lederhosen under the headline ‘Franz Skinner’,” he says with a laugh. Mos.