If you had to put your life on the line every time you went to work, you’d be forgiven for having a drink to take the edge off at the end of the day.

However, for Nabil Elouahabi, who plays veteran explosives officer Hassan ‘Hass’ Rahim in the hit ITV drama Trigger Point, Hass needed to steer clear of alcohol.

‘I’m sober,’ he told Metro when we sat down with him. ‘That was something I wanted to put in place [for the character]. Being sober and in recovery is part of my life. I love it, and it’s a better way to live, for me, as simple as that.

‘There was a big pub scene [in the show], they were all doing shots, and I thought, I want to unpack something different without making a song and dance about it.

‘There are lots of people who don’t drink… personally, it got to the point where I j

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