to avoiding hangovers
She’s the life of the party, but you wouldn’t know it the next day.
One professional partier — who gets paid to chug pints of wine — has discovered the key to avoiding the dreaded hangover.
Danielle Walsh, a 34-year-old who works full-time as a professional party animal, swears by pickled onion chips and a Diet Coke to keep her hangovers at bay.
She was scouted by a bar manager after flaunting her impressive drinking skills on TikTok and was later offered a position as a party representative.
Party bikes, cocktails, and strippers, oh my: She spends her late evenings parading with young singles, giving them “the best night out of their lives,” complete with booze galore.
However, Walsh causes chaos around town while moonlighting as a partier, only to return to her comfy 9-to-5 as a care worker the next day.
“I do it because I love it,” Walsh, from Belfast, Northern Ireland, told SWNS. “I don’t get paid more than anyone else on the team.”
Calling it an “Ibiza weekender, but in Belfast,” the nightlife fairy godmother touts tourists around the city, and said her colleagues “love it and think it’s hilarious.”
“Nobody has ever said anything negative about what I do, I think because I am truly myself,” she dished
While hangovers are expected the morning after, Walsh’s best advice is to not “dwell on it.”
“You need to get up and get out and make sure your house is clean beforehand,” she advised. “Every Sunday I am prepared with a multipack of pickled onion Walkers crisps and Diet Coke.”
The odd concoction “works wonders,” she said, championing it as her hangover cure.
Even as a busy mother of one, the self-proclaimed party animal only claims one day off — Sunday — before getting right back to it. “I’m a party animal and love a night out so to get paid to party is an absolute dream for me,” she said, calling it a “huge release” from her day job. “I can let my hair down and burn off steam — while earning money — it’s a win-win.”
Prior to her late-night stint, Walsh quickly grew her TikTok following to nearly 170,000 by posting clips of her downing drinks, especially her favorite: rosé combined with blue WKD, a personal spin on a Purple Rain.
“It was such a fluke. One day in lockdown I recorded myself downing a pint of Malibu and milk and it blew up,” she said.
Her social media accolades earned her some attention from the local bar the Belfast Pedal Pub in February this year.
“We start off going for pre-drinks and then pedal around the town on a party bike,” she said. “Loads of people request to have me as their rep because they recognize me from the internet.”
Now, every Friday and Saturday night, she’s hitting the town with vacationers and singles for a night full of “will workshops, strippers, and cocktail classes.”
“My weekends and weekdays are like chalk and cheese,” said Walsh, whose care job involves working with adults who have disabilities.