If you need something to lift your spirits during the dark days of winter, here is a vine idea: “National DrinkWine Day is celebrated annually on February 18 across the United States,” proclaims its official site. “The purpose of National Drink Wine Day is to spread the love and health benefits of wine. Wine has played an important role in history, religion and relationships.” Particularly in lubricating lots of ladies …
Sounds like a pour excuse for a holiday, but who are we to be party poopers? Speaking of which, the traditional toast that will be heard all over the land today, ‘Bottoms Up!,’ has inspired Sleuth to celebrate a few of the sexy celebs who’ll no doubt be sipping (then hopefully stripping) for the occasion.
The first round goes to JANUARY JONES – who closed the place down this past year as Mad Men’s Betty Draper—known, according to the New York Times, for her “chilly detachment, questionable judgment and unsteady nerves.” Yet she knew how to ‘wet the whistle’ of hubby Don Draper…which may account for why he always had ‘high balls.’ Gawker called the actress who played her “a human ice luge”—perfect for chilling a nice white. And, as Starcasm wrote after the blonde smashed her Range Rover into 3 parked cars and left the scene in June 2010, “January Jones has been very open in the past about her affinity for alcohol.” Indeed, she’d warned a GQ journalist 7 months before, “I hope this story isn’t only about drinking”…before bragging: “I remember being on a British Airways flight with a friend where we got cut off [from the bar] big-time. They [the first class crew] were like, ‘You are cut off! Go to bed!” Wine not?
“I don’t drink and I’m boring,” the former Mrs. Tom Cruise {rhymes with booze} NICOLE KIDMAN announced to Us Weekly in January 2012 as she headed out with current spouse Keith Urban, a recovering alcoholic, to the Golden Globes. And while the slim, statuesque Academy Awardee doesn’t exactly have globes, her glutes take the prize for ‘beauts.’ Though 6 months later, author Douglas Eby wrote for the Inner Actor that “Nicole Kidman reportedly drinks in moderation, like many successful people.” As Sleuth says: “Wine – it’s Win with an e at the end!”
Everyone is aware that Barbados beauty RIHANNA loves her ganja…but few knew she also belted from a bottle! “Worried Chris Brown texts Rihanna: Cut Out Your Drinking,” headlined Hollywood Life in July 2012, explaining that: “Mourning the loss of her grandma has caused Rihanna to reportedly turn to alcohol. She first alarmed Chris (!), and fans, on July 10 when she posted a photo of herself in her hotel room, drinking, as she tweeted, ‘I had to!!! Sorry granny.’” We’re not sure about Granny, RiRi, but that Fanny sure deserves cheers!
Lucky limey bastard Paul Bettany reveals that “minutes after” he wed JENNIFER CONNELLY on New Year’s Day 2003, “We got drunk and played Twister in our pajamas.” Seemingly always ‘in her cups’ (34C), Jen and Paul purchased a Manhattan mansion for $3.7 million months later…and stocked it with a 600-bottle winecellar. Asked her secret to domestic bliss, Connelly confided: “Drink while cooking.” The dark beauty prefers “red wine” (see above), but is also an advocate for the Clean Water Africa charity—causing Global Citizen to title her ad for the cause: “Imagine Drinking This with Jennifer Connelly!” Imagine doing anything with Jennifer Connelly…butt especially after she “ass•umed the positon” in the aptly named Hot Spot!
“CAMERON DIAZ looks drunk as she leaves Whisky Mist nightclub in London,” The Mirror UK reported in May 2012—adding “Cameron’s Sweaty Hair, Half Shut Eyes and Sudden Aversion to the Paparazzi Suggest She Had a Rather Good Night.” Now it’s time for us to say ‘goodnight’ and “put a cork in it.” So go out and enjoy National Drink Wine Day to the brim. Now, there’s a holiday we can all get BEHIND … and signed!
