Words matter. These are the best Ant McPartlin Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Among double acts, Morecambe and Wise are number one, definitely.
We’re really excited to be partnering with Santander. They presented us with a really fun creative which we couldn’t resist, who would say no to having their own bank brought to life.
In our day-to-day lives we’re not very introspective – especially not British northern blokes.
I purposely, throughout the whole of my divorce, have not said anything publicly. I’ve not been on social media or put any of my personal views out there. It’s not my style.
Going back to school, having done ‘Byker Grove’ and being on the telly when you’re 13, all the kids are very jealous and it can make it a quite hostile environment.
Anyone who suffers from depression knows once you’re in it you’re in it and you pretend to everybody till the last second of the day you’re OK. Or you go the other way and don’t leave the house.
I let a lot of people down, and for that I am truly sorry.
We’ve been in people’s living rooms for a long time… It’s lucky that ‘I’m a Celebrity’ and ‘Takeaway’ have been going on for so long that they trust us.
We’ve always wanted to do things with kids with the surprise element that we do with celebrities, because their reactions are fantastic and sweet and charming and lovely.
Bake Off’ will be a hit in Channel 4 terms but I don’t think it will ever reach the heights it has on the BBC just because it won’t. I love the show I am a big fan of the show, I think it is great.
When you’re bored, it doesn’t necessarily mean the audience is bored.
Entertainment is about having a blast.
On ‘Takeaway’ we wear these little earpieces because the show is live, but if you push them into your ear they go further into your eardrum and really hurt. One woman flung her arms around us and crushed my head so the earpiece went in. I nearly fainted. I lost my vision for a bit.
We’re just grateful, we learn to be in moment and enjoy what we’re doing.
Life hit me hard.
I’ve re-evaluated everything in my life.
I loved my Nintendo 64 growing up.
Some people are very cynical about it, but we’re not trying to replace Bob and Terry.
If it wasn’t for ‘Byker Grove’ we wouldn’t be where we are today.
I do believe that nurture has a great deal to do with how you end up as a human being.
We learnt a lot from doing Panto, actually back when we were still doing ‘SMTV: Live.’ We learnt how far we could push things and the show was all the better for that. I think that taught us you really have to know your audience because you could see how they would react to things.
There’s this working-class guilt – you don’t want to be flashy.
Just saying I’d like to do a sitcom is poison words, isn’t it?
I’d love to be able to play the piano.
Eighteen-year-old guys don’t hang around youth centers, or if they do, they’re kind of weird.
I always read interviews with people and they say I was a right joker at school, I was a right loner at school – but I was just kind of average.
For a double act to work, you shouldn’t have egos.
We never wanted to move to a niche slot at 11 at night so that we could be a lot cleverer and bluer. We just want to do those big light-entertainment shows we loved as kids.
My dad left the family when I was about 10 and I’ve seen him sporadically over the years.
You shouldn’t worry who gets the funny line, just that you’re being funny as a double act. With us, it flips all the time. There’s no real straight man or funny man.
We did the original ‘Pop Idol,’ so I don’t think we could go back to do a singing show.
Me and Dec are long in the tooth now – we’ve seen every Bush Tucker trial there is.
It is brilliant to be able to say ‘you have never had a holiday with your wife and your kids, here you go.’ It is really lovely and heartwarming and we get to do it. It is lovely to get that opportunity. We remember them all.
Not bipolar, but I lean towards manicness and then lowness.
Our first flat, in South-West London, was a pig-sty. Dec couldn’t even cook baked beans. We were like ‘Men Behaving Badly.’
We’ve done ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ and we work well with Simon Cowell and have done for years.
I’ve took stock of things and said, ‘Right I’ve got to think of me.’
We struggle so much with wanting everybody to like us, we weaken ourselves at times.
Sometimes we spend 20 minutes just watching Carol Vorderman brush her hair in the mornings.
We kind of had a rule where we said we’re not just going to do something in the States for the sake of it. We would host a show only if we would host the same show back home.
It was never really an ambition of ours to crack the States. Things happen and people ask you to do stuff, but we never sat there and said, ‘Oh, my God, we must break America!’
When we used to tour before we would stay in a Travelodge and had to share a room. One of us would have the bed and the other the pull-down sofa.
To be fair, life is too short. There is no point holding grudges or anything like that.
We always hark back to what we used to love watching as kids: ‘Noel’s House Party,’ ‘Don’t Forget Your Toothbrush,’ shows that had that live excitement about them. You never knew what was going to happen and I found that really engaging.
Some presenters can go their whole careers without even having one of the shows that we’ve got. It’s better than working for a living, let’s be honest!
It’s a very hard thing to explain when we sit with writers on our shows. But then if they show us a sketch, instinctively we’d know who we’d play.
If you are enjoying yourself its infectious.
You’re somebody and nobody in a split-second. This is a business.
I suffer really badly with insomnia.
A divorce will always change your life because it’s such an upheaval. It’s such a change.
