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Diageo is paying up to $610 million for Aviation American Gin, co-owned by Hollywood actor Ryan Reynolds, and a clutch of other spirits brands, adding to a gin portfolio which already includes Tanqueray and Gordon’s. Diageo isn’t new to acquiring brands linked to Hollywood celebrities, having in 2017 paid $1 billion to acquire the super …

Jason Isaacs, best known for playing Lucius Malfoy in the “Harry Potter” movies, opened up about overcoming his struggle with addiction. “I’ve always had an addictive personality and by the age of 16 I’d already passed through drink and was getting started on a decades long love affair with drugs,” Isaacs recently told The Big …

A state-ordered blacklist for New York City restaurants who have fallen behind on their booze bills is threatening to crimp plans to reopen this week, The Post has learned. The so-called Phase Two reopening for the Big Apple on Monday allows the city’s 26,000 restaurants and bars to resume outdoor dining after spending months under …

Americans may be imbibing more, but they’re not spending more — and that’s hurting some retailers, The Post has learned. Since the coronavirus lockdowns kicked off in March, booze deliveries have been through the roof — rising as much as 600 percent at one point, according to delivery company Drizly. But retailers specializing in upscale …

Efforts by a wine and liquor megastore known for its cut-rate prices to open in College Point, Queens, have been thwarted yet again. On Wednesday, the New York State Liquor Authority denied Total Wine & More’s August 2019 application to open a store in Queens after local competitors and dozens of elected officials — including …

With absolutely nothing to pop the bubbly over during the coronavirus pandemic, Champagne sales are fizzling out. The widespread closure of restaurants and bars — not to mention cancelled events such as weddings, bar mitzvahs and sporting occasions — are causing the bottom to fall out of the market. Despite other types of booze seeing …

Zachary Quinto has been clean for four years. Posting a photo of himself to Instagram on Sunday, the actor — who has previously spoken about his issues with alcohol and marijuana — wrote, “four years sober sun-kissed selfie. grateful for today!” In 2019, the 42-year-old opened up about his history with substance abuse during a …

Kyle Newman has fired back at estranged wife Jaime King, claiming in court papers she’s a “chronic drug addict and alcoholic.” Newman, 44, claimed in court documents filed Friday morning and obtained by Page Six that the “Hart of Dixie” actress, 41, “refuses to acknowledge that she has a problem, let alone seek meaningful treatment …

World’s largest beer-maker Anheuser-Busch InBev reported a decline in profit in the first quarter as coronavirus restrictions curbed drinking and said the second quarter would be “materially worse.” The brewer of Budweiser, Corona and Stella Artois has already withdrawn its guidance for 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic — which has closed bars and restaurants …

Kanye West stopped drinking after realizing he’s a “functioning alcoholic.” The rapper — who has publicly struggled with mental health problems — told GQ in its May cover story that he had been drinking vodka in the morning. But “I haven’t had a drink since I realized I needed to take it day by day, …