Tom Holland has given an update on his sobriety journey after ditching the booze a couple of years ago, admitting he once felt ‘enslaved’ to alcohol.

Best known for his portrayal of Peter Parker in the MCU’s iteration of Spider-Man, the 28-year-old has enjoyed a hugely successful career in Hollywood ever since appearing in 2012 disaster flick The Impossible alongside Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor.

The actor has also been open about his difficult relationship with drinking, having revealed that he’d made the decision to go teetotal after taking part in Dry January back in 2022.

Holland made the decision to go sober in 2022 ( Euan Cherry/Getty Images for University of St Andrews)

After more than two years sober, Holland has now revealed the biggest realisation he’d had about drinking during a new podcast interview.

Speaking to athlete Rich Roll on his podcast, the actor explained how not drinking alcohol isn’t about ‘sacrificing the fun’ as well as overcoming the initial difficulty of ditching the booze.

“When I realised that alcohol wasn’t making my insecurity or bringing out my best self – it was actually doing the opposite – I started to feel this freedom of ‘oh I can just be myself and I have nothing to be insecure about’,” he explained.

“That’s when I realised it started to get easier. I started to feel the benefit of not being tied to this drink.”

He added: “The more I let go and relaxed, the more I started to feel the benefits of enjoying the freedom from alcohol.”

Holland then went on to recall how during his early days in Hollywood he was trying to ‘fit into the LA world’ and using alcohol as a way to help him fit in among other celebrities.

The Spider-Man star spoke about his decision to quit drinking ahead of launching his own alcohol-free beer (YouTube/Rich Roll)

“I used to go to these parties and be like ‘I can’t speak to someone until I’m drunk’.

“And now that I’ve kicked that and I’ve found replacements that make me feel like I’m part of the process without sacrificing my morning… my next few days, has been so liberating.”

The actor has also unveiled his new alcohol free beer brand BERO, a premium non-alcoholic beer, having since shared an update about the project on his social media account.

“BERO was born out of a personal journey and I couldn’t be prouder to be launching it today,” he said, adding that it is currently available to purchase in the US and will be coming soon to the UK.

Holland had previously revealed he’d felt like he was ‘enslaved’ to alcohol, telling The Guardian felt like he ‘couldn’t be social’ without having a drink.

“I felt like I couldn’t go to the pub and have a lime soda. I couldn’t go out for dinner. I was really, really struggling,” he said.

“I just sort of said to myself, like, ‘Why? Why am I enslaved to this drink? Why am I so obsessed by the idea of having this drink?'”

Tom Holland has revealed in a new interview what will trigger him to quit acting in the future and ‘disappear off the face of the earth’.

The admission came in a new feature for Men’s Health magazine, where the actor discussed his life with Zendaya, Spider-Man, and most importantly, his 2017 lip sync battle performance of ‘Umbrella’.

The actor did not, however, do the feature to promote any film, as Holland has taken a year-long break from acting.

He said: “It was just something I needed to do. I had been acting flat out since I was 11.”

Tom Holland and Zendaya (Emma McIntyre via Getty Images)

Despite this sabbatical however, Holland has perhaps the most exciting slate of upcoming movies he’s ever had.

As well as being set to appear in an upcoming Spider-Man 4, Tom Holland is also going to star in the next Christopher Nolan film, recently announced to be an adaptation of The Odyssey.

Add to that American Speed, a film he is starring in alongside Austin Butler based on a true story, and he has arguably the best stretch of his career to date.

Despite this, he acknowledged that there is an expiry date on his career.

(Angela Weiss via Getty Images)

In the article, he tells the writer: “When I have kids, you will not see me in movies anymore.

“Golf and dad. And I will just disappear off the face of the earth.”

If any body of work could justify doing this, there is a real argument that Spider-Man and starring in a Nolan film is as good as any.

Holland has spoken about starring in The Odyssey (prior to this being revealed to be the plot of the upcoming Nolan film) in a recent podcast The Dish.

He said of the film: “To be perfectly honest, I don’t really know what it’s about.

“I’m super excited, but it’s been pretty quiet about the project. I met with [Nolan] and it was awesome.

Tom Holland spoke in the interview in part about his life with Zendaya, who he met on the Spider-Man films (Dave Bennet via Getty Images)

“He kind of loosely pitched what it is, and I’m sure when he’s ready he’ll announce what it’s about.”

Speaking about getting the role on Good Morning America, Holland called it the ‘call of a lifetime’, saying: “It was reminiscent of getting the call about ‘Spider-Man’ 10 years ago.

“It’s an amazing thing for me. I’m super proud and I’m really, really excited.”

Holland is set to appear alongside Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, Lupita Nyong’o, Charlize Theron, and his partner Zendaya.

If they happen to have kids sometime in 2026 after The Odyssey comes out, you can’t think of many better films to end your career with (even if we secretly hope he acts for many more years).

If you’re someone who is considering whether to jump on the Dry Jan bandwagon, this bloke might help you decide whether it’s worth the hype.

Millions of people take part in the annual challenge to go alcohol-free for the first month of the year to have a bit of a detox after a booze-fuelled festive season.

Let’s have it right, a lot of us have drank enough throughout December to last us an entire year – so the idea of going 31 days without liquor is quite enticing.

Experts insist you will notice a number of health benefits if you take part in Dry January, however, some people remain unconvinced by the point of it.

A few Brits think it’s counterproductive to cut out alcohol for just one month while continuing to get hammered for the other 11. And they have a point – but the purpose of the campaign which was first launched by Alcohol Change UK is to encourage people to simply reconsider their relationship with booze.

It prompts us to take stock of how much alcohol we are drinking and whether we might be teetering into dangerous territory with our drinking habits.

But you don’t just have to take my word for it, as this man revealed what results he had after putting himself on a booze ban for 30 days.

Many Brits will be opting to give up the booze for January (Getty Stock Image)

YouTuber Jordan LoNigro decided to document his challenge and share his results online in the hopes of inspiring others to take a leaf out of his book too.

In a video originally shared in May 2019, he explained that he was motivated to ditch drunken nights out after a booze-heavy few weeks, which resulted in some pretty grim hangovers.

The photographer and videographer, based in South Carolina, then revealed what changes he had noticed after not consuming any alcohol for more than four weeks, as well as the biggest realisation he had.

He excitedly announced that he had lost 10 pounds ‘just by simply cutting out alcohol for a month and eating a little bit healthier‘.

“So that’s pretty awesome,” Jordan said. “I feel like I have a bit more energy, I feel a lot less sluggish than I usually do. I’ve been more creative.

Jordan LoNigro noticed some surprising changes after giving up booze for 30 days (YouTube/@jordanlonigro)

“I haven’t been waking up with hangovers on the weekends, so I’ve been using my time to my advantage and just being more all-around productive, so that’s been great as well. And lastly, I saved money.”

The content creator explained that even if you are just grabbing one beer with a meal, these small purchases add up over the course of a month.

However, Jordan admitted it wasn’t all smooth sailing, even if the 30 day challenge did leave him feeling better mentally and physically.

“Now let’s talk about some cons – or to put it better, some realisations I’ve had doing this challenge,” he continued. “My relationship with alcohol…it was a bit more challenging than I thought it was gonna be.

“The area I live in, there’s just so many things that involve drinking, so many activities that involve drinking. When I cut that out, it was like, wow.”

He explained that he lost weight, had more energy and saved money (YouTube/@jordanlonigro)

The YouTuber explained it dawned on him that he would have probably drank on numerous occasions ‘without even thinking about it’, rather than for a special event – prompting him to realise the extent of his relationship with drinking.

“Moving forward, I’m just going to be a little bit more aware of when I drink and how much I am drinking,” Jordan went on, before discussing the ‘most challenging’ aspect he faced while giving up booze further.

He told how his social life had taken a hit as he realised that a lot of activities involve drinking, but when your teetotal, ‘you don’t want to go put yourself in those environments‘.

“So you just stay at home and chill,” he said. “And you don’t really hang out with people too much.”

He explained the cold weather also played a part in this, as he couldn’t preoccupy himself by heading outdoors.

As well as prompting him to overhaul his relationship with alcohol, Jordan says the challenge gave him new-found admiration for those who don’t drink.

“I just did this challenge for 30 days, but there’s a lot of people out there even people that are very close to me that live a sober lifestyle,” he added.

“That would be very hard to do.You would really have to reformat your whole life, really be aware of your surroundings and that would be very challenging – so to anyone out there that lives that kind of lifestyle, respect to you.”

A doctor has shared the damning epiphany he had about booze after he decided to stop drinking.

Doctor and TV personality Dr Alex George is best known for his time on season four of Love Island, but he has since been appointed as the UK Youth Mental Health Ambassador within the Department for Education.

The qualified GP holds a medicine degree and spreads health tips on his social media account, a lot of which centres on his sobriety journey.

The former reality TV star has shared his biggest realisation since going sober (Instagram/@dralexgeorge)

Having put the drink down for good over a year and a half ago, Dr Alex enjoys highlighting the benefits he has gained from choosing to change his lifestyle.

He has previously spoken about the three types of people that shouldn’t drink alcohol at all, and everything that has changed for him since he’d gone sober.

But now, he’s pointed out the standout factor that he has noticed almost straight away after his last pint, through an explainer video across his social media accounts.

Starting to explain himself, the doctor said: “This is one of the biggest realisations I’ve had since I stopped drinking

a year and a half ago.”

“No matter what the situation – whether you’re happy or you’re sad, whether it’s a funeral or a birthday, whether the football’s on, whether you’re off to the pub with your mates, whether you graduated, whether you failed exams,

there is no situation that booze isn’t the answer,” Dr Alex pointed out.

And he may have a point, because celebrations are usually paired with champagne or a form of alcohol.

He went on: “Isn’t it crazy that alcohol is associated with every single social event? Every event in our lives if someone passes away, we drink if you achieve something in your life, we drink and it’s only when I stepped away and stopped drinking, I realised, what the hell?”

Labelling the trend as ‘crazy to me’, he said that we have to find a way to mark occasions and not make it all ‘about the booze’, as it is almost engrained into the culture across the UK.

Dr Alex thinks that we drink too much to mark occasions (Instagram/@dralexgeorge)

His followers agreed with his take in the comments, as one user said: “So frustrating when people try and force you to drink.

“It really gets on my nerves as they can’t imagine how you can be having a good time whilst sober.”

Another added: “Yeah it doesn’t mean you have to drink in every occasion, gathering or life events. Just eat instead,” with a laughing emoji.

And a third commented: “So true! And why does it feel awkward at any of these events to say, I don’t drink… people find it so odd.”