Widespread U.Okay. hosts Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly – higher recognized by their joint stage identify Ant and Dec – have signed on to remain at broadcaster ITV for an additional three years.
The BAFTA-winning duo have spent 25 years on the community, the place they’re amongst its most prolific performers, fronting exhibits together with “Britain’s Received Expertise,” “Ant & Dec’s Saturday Evening Takeaway” and “I’m A Celeb…Get Me Out Of Right here!”
In addition to persevering with with these exhibits in 2023, they can even host “Ant & Dec’s Limitless Win” and “I’m A Celeb South Africa.”
The duo, who began off as actors, first met as youngsters on the set of youngsters’s drama sequence “Byker Grove.” They went on to have a short-lived music profession within the early Nineteen Nineties underneath their “Byker Grove” monikers P.J. and Duncan earlier than internet hosting Saturday morning pop present “CDUK” alongside Cat Deeley on ITV, which ran till 2001.
“The world of tv and streaming is all the time a a lot brighter place with Ant & Dec on the centre of it, and we stay up for persevering with our profitable working relationship with them throughout the subsequent three years,” stated Kevin Lygo, managing director for media and leisure at ITV.
McPartlin stated: “We’re so fortunate to host the perfect leisure exhibits on this planet. We completely love our exhibits and we’re each extraordinarily completely satisfied and really excited to increase our relationship with ITV for an additional 3 years.”
Donnelly added: “We will’t imagine we’re reaching 25 years completely with ITV. Particularly as we’re each solely turning 30 this yr…!”
