James Sutton aims for New Year health kick

James Sutton aims for New Year health kick
James Sutton aims for New Year health kick

Hollyoaks star James Sutton has revealed that he would love to quit smoking in the new year - but would find the resolution difficult to keep. The actor, who has reprised his role on the show as John Paul McQueen, confessed that he wanted to take greater care of his health now he was nearing 30, even though it could be a short-lived promise. "My resolutions last until about January 8," he confessed. "I'll probably give up smoking again. I'd been doing dead well on the electronic fags and then I ran out of cartridges and you know what happened next! "It's getting cold and I want my little comforts. It's disgusting and I hate it and I want to give up, but baby steps. I'm 30 next year, I don't want to be smoking at 30. I need to be looking after myself. I'm one of the mature characters of the show," he said jokingly in reference to his younger co-stars. James added that after having a family Christmas in Shropshire, he had big plans for New Year's Eve - which he would be spending in Scotland. "I'm going up to Inverness. I have a friend who runs a big Hogmanay night near Loch Ness," he revealed.

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.