Director Shareholding

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RE:     CHAPTER 16 PARAGRAPH 13 OF                                       
                                                                         
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Diageo plc (the 'Company') announces that:

It received notification on 8 June 2005 that Mourant & Co Trustees Limited, as
trustee of the Employee Benefit Trust ('Mourant'), had transferred 100,000
Ordinary Shares to a beneficiary of the Employee Benefit Trust on 7 June 2005,
following an exercise of options under the Company's Senior Executive Share
Option Plan.

As a result of the above transactions the total holding of the Employee Benefit
Trust amounts to 6,421,825Ordinary Shares.

Mr P S Walsh, a director, notified the Company on 7 June 2005 that:

a.            on 7 June 2005, he exercised options over 100,000 Ordinary Shares
of 28 101/108 pence each in the Company ('Ordinary Shares') granted on 20
December 1999 at a price per share of £5.18 under the Senior Executive Share
Option Plan of the Company; and

b.            on 7 June 2005, he sold 90,000 Ordinary Shares at a price per
share of £8.05.

Mr Walsh will retain beneficial ownership of the balance of the 10,000 Ordinary
Shares.

As a result of these transactions Mr Walsh's interest in Ordinary Shares
(excluding options, awards under the Company's LTIPs and also interests as a
potential beneficiary of the Grand Metropolitan No. 2 Employee Share Trust and
the Diageo Employee Benefit Trust) is 735,040.

 8 June 2004