United Kingdom, May 17 -- John Lydon rarely goes to restaurants because he can't smoke in them.

The Public Image Ltd frontman lives in Los Angeles and admitted he prefers his friends to visit him for lunch rather than go out somewhere because eateries don't allow cigarettes inside and the wildfires earlier this year has meant even more restrictions have been brought in.

Discussing a typical lunchtime, he told the Daily Telegraph newspaper: "If I'm seeing friends they'll come here as I've gone off the restaurants since all the smoking bans, and since the fires you can't even smoke outside now."

The 69-year-old rocker's beloved wife Nora Forster died from Alzheimer's in 2023 at the age of 80, and since her passing, John has "lost inerest...