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Receive today's headlines directly to your inbox every morning and evening, with our free daily newsletter.Įnter email address This field is required Sign Up Now, Ryder has replaced the vices - aside from his beloved Guinness - with work.ĭaily Headlines & Evening Telegraph Newsletter I wasn't comfortable with myself for so many years I wasn't as a kid, and that's where drugs come in, that's why so many people start taking them." "Until then I was still about 15 in my head. "Once I hit 40, I started to change," he says. Get Me Out Of Here! He finished second, behind Stacey Solomon, but appearing on the popular series also gave him the chance to show the world there's more to him than the foul drug addict he'd once been depicted as. Today, he's looking trim, and brandishing big pearly white teeth he says he paid £25,000 for in 2010 after his stint on I'm A Celebrity. Ryder's now 54, although the way he lived from his late teens for almost 20 years - immersed in heroin addiction, a rumoured 30-rock-a-day crack cocaine habit - it's surprising he's made it this far. San Andreas finishes before Maccer's story could unfold any further, but if events followed those of his real-life counterpart, he'd go on to get clean, be involved in decade-long legal battles with former management, and eventually become something of an unorthodox national treasure thanks to reality TV. Maccer was voiced by Shaun Ryder, himself a Salford-born musician at various times adrift, thanks to his infamous chemical abuse. Remember when Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas was released in 2004, and when the central character got entangled with Maccer? He was a Salford-born musician lost in the fictionalised California desert, not sure of his band's whereabouts but planning a comeback in the not too distant future - if only he could kick his gargantuan, destructive drug habit.
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