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"Carol McGiffin has admitted that she likes to binge drink as she doesn&amp;#039;t intend to reach old age. The Loose Women star spoke about her drinking habits while discussing her relationship with Mark Cassidy, who is 22 years her junior. The 53-year-old explained that she felt under pressure to stay youthful while dating her younger fianc\u00C3\u00A9. She told Bella magazine: &amp;quot;I just don&amp;#039;t want to live that long. I&amp;#039;m working on going before then. That&amp;#039;s why I drink so much. What&amp;#039;s the point of living forever?&amp;quot; McGiffin also said she understands why older people struggle to cope when their health drops.  She said: &amp;quot;I can see myself getting bored. Not with life - I&amp;#039;m healthy and fit and I can still afford to take care of myself. &amp;quot;But if I wasn&amp;#039;t in that situation, I can see how people wouldn&amp;#039;t want to carry on. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m already teaching Mark how to push a wheelchair around - I probably won&amp;#039;t be healthy.&amp;quot; She added: &amp;quot;I am with a younger man and it is quite difficult when you see yourself ageing so much quicker than he is. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve got to try and keep it the way it is, rather than let it go downhill too quickly.&amp;quot; New Loose Women panellist Shobna Gulati recently told Digital Spy that she won&amp;#039;t struggle keeping up with the partying lifestyles of her co-stars. View all of today&amp;#039;s best celebrity pictures:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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