 After leaving Halifax, he settled with his second wife in Yorkshire where they ran the George & Dragon pub at Wetherby.After another divorce, at the end of 2005 he was running a pub in Leeds.He later took over the King's Arms pub in Fenwick, Ayrshire, close to his native Glasgow but left this establishment around 2010 and now runs Langside Bed and Breakfast in Fenwick, Ayrshire with his present wife Debbie.