{"id":777616,"date":"2026-09-21T08:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T08:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/777616\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T08:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T08:10:10","slug":"bristol-bake-off-star-says-going-sober-has-been-glorious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/777616\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol Bake Off star says ‘going sober’ has been ‘glorious’"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Great British Bake Off star turned TV presenter says “going sober” and being alcohol free for nearly three years has been “glorious”.<\/p>\n

Briony May Williams, from Bristol, made it to the Great British Bake Off semi-finals back in 2018, but went home after she served judges Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith “raw pastry” and admitted she used “salt instead of sugar”.<\/p>\n

Williams said she decided to make some “big changes” in her life and go sober after she ended up in hospital at the end of 2023 following an “alcohol-heavy 39th birthday”.<\/p>\n

“Going sober – it’s glorious. It’s not always easy but it’s always worth it and I feel much more able to cope with what life throws at me,” she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Great British Bake Off star turned TV presenter says “going sober” and being alcohol free for nearly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-777616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}