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Actor's bid to save pub

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September 02, 2025

RUPERT Everett has said he is “doing pretty well” at pulling pints as he revealed he is doing shifts behind the bar of his local pub to help save it from closure.

The veteran star, 66, has been helping out The Swan in Enford, Wiltshire, as part of a community initiative to keep the doors of the pub open. He told ITV's Good Morning Britain: “I'm part of a big rota.

“Our pub closed down a few months ago, and it’s had a chequered existence for the last 20 years, like many pubs, and it’s in a rural village, and I think the people in the village realised that without it there’s no possibility of communication, and so the villagers wanted to keep the pub going.

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