Hollywood star Rupert Everett has swapped the red carpet for real ale as he steps behind the bar of his local pub in a bid to save it from closure.
The veteran actor, 66, revealed he is pulling pints at The Swan in Enford, Wiltshire, as part of a village-wide volunteer effort to keep the historic 350-year-old pub open.
Speaking on ITV's Good Morning Britain, Everett said: '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.
'Everybody decided to take part in rotas in various roles and I have done a few stints pulling pints. I was working on Saturday, but I'm off to work now, so I'm not going to be back for a bit.
'But it's a great thing. Without a pub in a village, if you're in the countryside and you're eight miles from the nearest town, it's sad, and it's such a difficult time for pubs in general.
