Why Becoming Dads Is Ant & Dec’s Proudest Achievement

On this week’s bonus episode, the banana phone is out and the voice notes are back! The boys discuss if they could ever be cat people, who their dream guest on Get Out Of Me Ear would be, and answer the age old question of whether a Jaffa Cake is a cake or a biscuit... 🤔 They also address a couple of rumours about their living situations and a familiar voice pops up to ask ‘What’s for dinner?’ We’ll be back on Thursday, but until then, keep your correspondence coming to [email protected] ----- 00:00 - Ant’s attempting to correct his posture00:40- The banana phone returns00:58 - Dec hates cats?04:38 - Did Ant & Dec buy houses next door to each other?07:37 - The King for Get Out Of My Ear?!11:07 - 'Why becoming a dad was the best thing we've ever done'15:03 - The Jaffa Cake debate - cake or biscuit?17:43 - What the boys would cook for Alison Hammond Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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• 0:00Speaker 00

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• 1:04Declan Donnelly?

  We're on.

• 1:05Ant McPartlin?

  Try to walk in with good posture. My wife says my posture's bad on the podcast.

• 1:09Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, really?

• 1:09Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah. Your posture's terrible. Is that better?

• 1:13Declan Donnelly?

  It's better, but you look a bit... you look a bit stiff.

• 1:16Ant McPartlin?

  Do I feel a bit stiff?

• 1:17Declan Donnelly?

  Hmm.

• 1:18Ant McPartlin?

  Partly I'm a bit like that.

• 1:20Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, but that's what it is. You're just hanging out, man.

• 1:22Ant McPartlin?

  Taking it easy.

• 1:23Declan Donnelly?

  Taking it easy.

• 1:24Ant McPartlin?

  Just taking it easy.

• 1:24Declan Donnelly?

  Relaxing chat.

• 1:25Ant McPartlin?

  I'm relaxing chatting.

• 1:26Declan Donnelly?

  Hello! Good morning, good evening. Welcome back to the Hangout.

• 1:29Ant McPartlin?

  What was it?

• 1:30Declan Donnelly?

  We've got a voice notes episode.

• 1:31Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, good!

• 1:32Declan Donnelly?

  Oh.

• 1:32Ant McPartlin?

  Only the second time we've done this, but we really did like it. I'm surprised it hasn't come back sooner. There's the banana phone?

• 1:40Declan Donnelly?

  There it is. We've got tons of your voice notes to get through. Thanks for sending them in. If you want to send us any more for the next time we do this, please do, [email protected].

• 1:50Ant McPartlin?

  Let's dive straight into the first voice note, shall we?

• 1:52Declan Donnelly?

  Okay. If you say so. If that's what you want.

• 1:55Ant McPartlin?

  I do.

• 1:56Declan Donnelly?

  Because that's what'll happen.

• 1:57Ant McPartlin?

  I do want.

• 1:59Speaker 06

  Hi, Anna and Dec. Me and my boyfriend recently got a really cute kitten and I know you're dog lovers, but I was wondering what your opinion on cats is. Thanks.

• 2:09Declan Donnelly?

  Hate them.

• 2:11Ant McPartlin?

  Do you hate them? You hate cats?

• 2:13Declan Donnelly?

  Mm-hmm.

• 2:15Ant McPartlin?

  Discuss. I didn't think you'd hate any animals. Well, other than birds. We know you hate birds because you're scared of them.

• 2:21Declan Donnelly?

  Hate's a bit strong.

• 2:22Ant McPartlin?

  Okay.

• 2:23Declan Donnelly?

  I'm allergic to cats.

• 2:24Ant McPartlin?

  And you found this out?

• 2:27Declan Donnelly?

  I found this out backstage at Britain's Got Talent.

• 2:30Ant McPartlin?

  What?

• 2:31Declan Donnelly?

  Well, we had cats turn up one day to perform and I started streaming, started sneezing.

• 2:37Ant McPartlin?

  This wasn't the cast of Cats the Musical. This was, this is actual cats.

• 2:40Declan Donnelly?

  So I started streaming backstage at Britain's Got Talent with actual cats.

• 2:44Ant McPartlin?

  I don't remember this.

• 2:45Declan Donnelly?

  We had cat agility on the show.

• 2:47Ant McPartlin?

  Cat agility on the show?

• 2:48Declan Donnelly?

  Well, I remember. I only remember because...

• 2:50Ant McPartlin?

  You started streaming?

• 2:51Declan Donnelly?

  I started streaming.

• 2:52Speaker 06

  On Twitch?

• 2:54Declan Donnelly?

  No, it was, it was stream on the internet. My eyes started streaming.

• 2:57Ant McPartlin?

  On Twitch. I started streaming about it. And doesn't Isla want cats?

• 3:01Declan Donnelly?

  So Isla wants a cat. She can't have a cat. She says, and she says to people as well, "I want a cat, but my daddy's allergic." But she went round to a friend of hers' house on a playdate and the friend has got cats and she came home and I started streaming, not on the internet. My eyes started streaming and I started crying, sneezing.

• 3:22Ant McPartlin?

  Crying?

• 3:23Declan Donnelly?

  Not crying, sneezing.

• 3:26Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, I hate cats so badly.

• 3:29Declan Donnelly?

  I didn't start crying.

• 3:30Ant McPartlin?

  Cats make me sneeze. Cats make me sneeze.

• 3:34Declan Donnelly?

  I started sneezing from her school uniform.

• 3:37Ant McPartlin?

  Crying.

• 3:40Ant McPartlin?

  I didn't want to be crying over cats.

• 3:43Declan Donnelly?

  I just started crying.

• 3:44Ant McPartlin?

  I'd love to love cats, but I'm allergic.

• 3:48Declan Donnelly?

  So cats and me do not get on?

• 3:50Ant McPartlin?

  I, on the hand, don't hate cats. I don't hate, there's no animal, I don't hate them. I am more of a dog-

• 3:55Declan Donnelly?

  No, I don't hate them. I'm just allergic.

• 3:57Ant McPartlin?

  I am more of a dog person, but-

• 3:59Declan Donnelly?

  Would you have a cat?

• 3:59Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, in the future. Yeah, I probably would. I would have a cat.

• 4:02Declan Donnelly?

  Would you?

• 4:02Ant McPartlin?

  I mean, I don't think you get the same love, do you? From everyone I've talked to who has a cat, they say no. Fiona, you're the same. You do get love from a cat? What's your cat called? Let's name check the cat.

• 4:12Speaker 06

  Susie Birdie.

• 4:13Ant McPartlin?

  Susie Birdie? Susie Birdie.

• 4:17Ant McPartlin?

  Okay, and Susie Birdie.

• 4:20Declan Donnelly?

  Disappointing.

• 4:20Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, Susie Birdie gives you love?

• 4:23Speaker 06

  Yes.

• 4:23Ant McPartlin?

  And she sits on your tally?

• 4:25Speaker 06

  Caddles me, follows me.

• 4:27Ant McPartlin?

  What a dog wouldn't do, a dog wouldn't leave your house at night and go and live at another person's house, as if that's their family as well, which cats do, don't they? Cats have like three fam- three or four families. They do. And everybody thinks that they own the cat, but the cat's like, no, you don't, nobody owns me, fool.

• 4:45Declan Donnelly?

  Ayla's got a book about that.

• 4:46Ant McPartlin?

  About what?

• 4:47Declan Donnelly?

  A cat that has lots of families. It's called Six Dinner Sid.

• 4:51Ant McPartlin?

  Six Dinner Sid?

• 4:52Declan Donnelly?

  And the cat goes and has six dinners every day.

• 4:55Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, lucky cat.

• 4:56Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah. But then it gets found out, because Sid gets a cough.

• 5:00Ant McPartlin?

  Right.

• 5:00Declan Donnelly?

  So the people at number one take Sid to the vet. The people at number two also take Sid to the vet. The people from number three also take Sid to the vet. And the vet's like, this cat's been in before.

• 5:11Ant McPartlin?

  Cats are loads of medication.

• 5:12Declan Donnelly?

  Cats on loads of meds, lots of food, loads of meds. And then they all realise that the cat's got six families. And Sid gets rumbled.

• 5:19Ant McPartlin?

  And then what happens to Sid?

• 5:20Declan Donnelly?

  Sid moves to the next street and starts all over again.

• 5:23Ant McPartlin?

  Does he?

• 5:23Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 5:24Ant McPartlin?

  So Sid doesn't even learn his lesson?

• 5:26Declan Donnelly?

  No.

• 5:26Ant McPartlin?

  Because he's a cat?

• 5:27Declan Donnelly?

  Sid goes, I'm gonna ditch these six family losers.

• 5:29Ant McPartlin?

  And start again.

• 5:30Declan Donnelly?

  And start and get some more families. That's cats, you see?

• 5:32Ant McPartlin?

  Does that answer your question? I hope so.

• 5:34Declan Donnelly?

  I don't hate them, I'm just allergic to them.

• 5:36Ant McPartlin?

  Let's have another one.

• 5:38Speaker 07

  Hi, Ant. Hi, Dec. It's Sam here. Is it true you bought houses next door to each other in Newcastle?

• 5:46Ant McPartlin?

  No. No, that's not true, Dan.

• 5:49Declan Donnelly?

  No, Dan, it's not.

• 5:50Ant McPartlin?

  Our houses aren't, Sam or Dan?

• 5:52Declan Donnelly?

  Sam.

• 5:54Ant McPartlin?

  Our houses aren't next door to each other in Newcastle?

• 5:57Declan Donnelly?

  No.

• 5:57Ant McPartlin?

  Never were. We did live next door to each other in London when we first, we first moved to London years ago, when we were like nineteen, twenty. We shared a flat, we shared two flats. Where we both moved out of the flat and then we bought houses in the same mews. And then I moved out of that mews and Dec followed me and got a house two doors down. So we were two doors away, then I moved. Not to get away from him, but then he followed us. He followed us and moved two doors down again.

• 6:26Declan Donnelly?

  Felt quite pointed when he moved.

• 6:27Ant McPartlin?

  I moved again, out of London. So, see what happens. What's this space? Stogger.

• 6:36Declan Donnelly?

  But yeah, when we first bought houses, we moved out of our flat that we shared in and we decided it was time to invest, put down some roots and invest in property. So I found this little muse and I found a house was available in it. So I went to see it and I said to Aunt, well, you come with me and I'd love your opinion on it. So he came with me and he said, yeah, it's really cool. It's really nice. I said to the estate agent, are there any more of them? And the estate agent said, there's one more for sale over there. And it was two doors away. And I went, can I have a look? So we had a look and I went, right, I'll take it. So we both bought houses. I was at number six.

• 7:10Ant McPartlin?

  Number three.

• 7:11Declan Donnelly?

  Number three. So there's two doors in between, two houses in between.

• 7:14Ant McPartlin?

  And we couldn't actually afford these houses until we were offered panto at Sunderland Empire. Because before that, all of our kind of money that we'd made from the music wasn't a lot, wasn't enough to put down a deposit on a house. And it was our first home, but we, we done panto in Sunderland for good money.

• 7:32Declan Donnelly?

  And that got us a deposit for a house.

• 7:34Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah. Then you Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

• 7:38Ant McPartlin?

  That's what it was. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. We were dwarfs, thank you.

• 7:43Declan Donnelly?

  Bashful and sneezy. No, we weren't. We were Ant and Dec. We were Dame Dolly Donuts nephews, Ant and Dec, who came to live in the castle for a bit or something.

• 7:54Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 7:56Declan Donnelly?

  Something like that.

• 7:56Ant McPartlin?

  So I don't know where this rumor's come from, Dan, Big Dan Bird, Sam.

• 8:00Declan Donnelly?

  Sam, Sam and Dan.

• 8:01Ant McPartlin?

  That we live next door to each other in Newcastle. We didn't even live near each other growing up in Newcastle. We went to rival schools. Dec went to an all boy Catholic school. Now I went to the comprehensive school, kind of not even over the road, just down the road.

• 8:13Declan Donnelly?

  Down the road, yeah.

• 8:14Ant McPartlin?

  But yeah, and we lived in different areas growing up. I lived in Fennam, we lived in Crotus Park. So I don't know where this has come from, don't know who's been telling you.

• 8:21Declan Donnelly?

  Don't know who's been spreading these lies, Sam.

• 8:23Ant McPartlin?

  That's it. See, it's what you get when you're a celebrity. Just people make up stuff, put on the internet. It's hurtful, really.

• 8:29Declan Donnelly?

  Hard sometimes, isn't it?

• 8:30Ant McPartlin?

  It's hard to deal with. Yeah, yeah.

• 8:33Declan Donnelly?

  Thanks, Sam. Really brought this mood down. Shall we have another voice note?

• 8:37Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 8:37Declan Donnelly?

  Shall we have another one?

• 8:38Speaker 06

  Hi, Ant and Dec. I'm Anna. I'm from Hull. I hope you're good. I just wondered, who would be your absolute dream guest for Get Out Of Me? I still haven't recovered from Cheryl, so I'd

• 8:49Declan Donnelly?

  To know who'd be next. Thank you.

• 8:52Ant McPartlin?

  No, thank you. And she said that with a smile.

• 8:55Declan Donnelly?

  She did, she smiled all the way through that.

• 8:56Ant McPartlin?

  Almost like she was gonna laugh. Like she couldn't believe she was falling in a podcast. Like, she couldn't believe it, couldn't believe her luck.

• 9:03Declan Donnelly?

  Where's she from Hull?

• 9:04Speaker 02

  Hull.

• 9:04Ant McPartlin?

  Hull.

• 9:05Declan Donnelly?

  Hull. What was her name?

• 9:07Speaker 02

  Anna.

• 9:07Ant McPartlin?

  Anna.

• 9:08Declan Donnelly?

  And what was the question?

• 9:11Ant McPartlin?

  What is that I want?

• 9:12Declan Donnelly?

  From Hull, who is your dream guest, but I'm a celebrity kid, I don't meet you?

• 9:16Ant McPartlin?

  Go on.

• 9:17Declan Donnelly?

  His Majesty the King.

• 9:18Ant McPartlin?

  Why shut up?

• 9:19Declan Donnelly?

  Can you imagine that?

• 9:20Ant McPartlin?

  Shut up!

• 9:20Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, that would be brilliant.

• 9:22Ant McPartlin?

  He'd do that, I reckon. He'd write it off. What a frisk. What a frisk that would be.

• 9:26Declan Donnelly?

  He's got a great sense of humour.

• 9:27Ant McPartlin?

  He has?

• 9:28Declan Donnelly?

  Just pop a little earpiece in there and just do, as we say, just, oh, we'd have fun.

• 9:32Ant McPartlin?

  That would be good, wouldn't it?

• 9:33Declan Donnelly?

  It would be brilliant. Imagine just he's one of them lineups and just like...

• 9:38Ant McPartlin?

  I've always hated you. What are you doing here? Him or George Clooney. Be good.

• 9:44Declan Donnelly?

  Clooney would be good.

• 9:45Ant McPartlin?

  Because he's up for a laugh. He's a prankster apparently.

• 9:48Declan Donnelly?

  Yes.

• 9:48Ant McPartlin?

  We met him at the King's Trust Awards, actually. And we were on stage and we were doing our little link and then we came off to wait in all side of the wings and all the other side.

• 9:58Declan Donnelly?

  He was the other side of the wings.

• 10:00Ant McPartlin?

  Was George Clooney. And he was like, he waved at us, didn't he?

• 10:03Declan Donnelly?

  I was like, you know, when you turn around and go, is he waving at me?

• 10:08Ant McPartlin?

  He was waving at me.

• 10:12Declan Donnelly?

  Turned around and there was Anne. And he was waving at Anne.

• 10:14Ant McPartlin?

  Hi, George.

• 10:15Declan Donnelly?

  We'd have fun with Clooney and Pitt.

• 10:18Ant McPartlin?

  Can we make that happen?

• 10:19Declan Donnelly?

  We don't do, we don't, we're not doing the show at the moment.

• 10:21Ant McPartlin?

  That's a good point. We could have our own show, Fun with Clooney and Pitt.

• 10:26Ant McPartlin?

  Fun with Clooney and Pitt. Fun with Anne and Deck and Clooney and Pitt. Okay? I'm standing inside to feed that. Okay? Tend.

• 10:34Declan Donnelly?

  10 episodes, live every Saturday.

• 10:36Ant McPartlin?

  Million pounds in episodes, Clooney and Pitt, dude, just for fun.

• 10:41Declan Donnelly?

  They're rich enough.

• 10:44Ant McPartlin?

  They don't get paid, they just get to work with us.

• 10:48Ant McPartlin?

  Don't lie, I'm typing on a typewriter.

• 10:51Ant McPartlin?

  Last time I think I come up with TV show ideas on a typewriter. Yeah.

• 10:56Speaker 02

  Were there any that you tried to get and couldn't?

• 10:58Ant McPartlin?

  Most people we got eventually. Like, a lot of people would say no and then we'd kind of wear them down over time. So eventually people said yes. Like Cheryl Cole, for example, like that, the woman said, took a bit of persuading, but once she did it, she was all in. She was really good fun. Richard Madeley took a little bit of persuading as well, didn't he? Do you remember that? Yeah, that's done quite a lot. And he said no. And then eventually, when he did do it, it was one of my favourite ones ever.

• 11:23Declan Donnelly?

  If you haven't seen the Richard Madeley one, honestly, go to the Bella Box YouTube channel. Is it on there?

• 11:28Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, they're all on there.

• 11:29Declan Donnelly?

  It's so good. I cried.

• 11:30Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, my God.

• 11:31Declan Donnelly?

  Laughing at Richard Madeley.

• 11:32Ant McPartlin?

  When he puts his foot in the swimming pool with his shoe on.

• 11:35Declan Donnelly?

  It's so good. Yeah, definitely check that one out. But we got most people eventually. A lot of the time it was down to diaries. The one person we never got, I'll tell you who'd be fun.

• 11:43Ant McPartlin?

  Who?

• 11:44Declan Donnelly?

  Elton John.

• 11:45Ant McPartlin?

  No, I know.

• 11:47Declan Donnelly?

  Sir Elton.

• 11:48Ant McPartlin?

  We emailed him and said, would you come on the last ever episode of Saturday Night Takeaway and sing Saturday, Saturday Live in the studio? And he said, no.

• 12:01Ant McPartlin?

  He couldn't do it, which is a shame, because that would have been a really fitting end, wouldn't it?

• 12:04Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 12:05Ant McPartlin?

  Next one? Next voice note? Okay.

• 12:09Speaker 06

  Hi. So my question for Ant and Dec is, what was it like to be a dad for the first time? And did it change you, like, in any way, in a positive way, or hopefully not negative? But anywho's, I just want to know, like, a little, I thought a deeper question would be quite nice. So, yeah, what was that like? Thank you.

• 12:28Ant McPartlin?

  Thank you.

• 12:29Declan Donnelly?

  Thank you, anonymous lady.

• 12:31Ant McPartlin?

  Very good question.

• 12:32Declan Donnelly?

  It's a lovely question.

• 12:33Ant McPartlin?

  And yeah, it is a bit deeper, but we don't mind that. We can delve a bit deeper.

• 12:36Declan Donnelly?

  We can do deep.

• 12:37Ant McPartlin?

  We could do that. Yeah, it is the best, the absolute best, being a dad. And I was lucky enough to be stepdad to my girls a few years before my son was born. So I feel like I had a really great introduction to fatherhood because I got to be able to talk to them straight away. I could converse with them. I could have fun with them. We could go out and the feedback was immediate. And Then when while I came along, I got to do all of the baby toddler stuff that I didn't get to do with the girls. So I've had kind of the best of, best of both worlds really. And it, it, it changes you for the better.

• 13:18Ant McPartlin?

  All of the sleepless nights, the early mornings, the tiredness is worth it. It's all worth it. It's all worth, it's the, it's the greatest thing I think. You can do. It, it far surpasses anything that we've achieved in our career.

• 13:32Declan Donnelly?

  I think it's, it's our biggest achievement.

• 13:35Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 13:35Declan Donnelly?

  Of everything that we've, that we've done professionally. Actually, it's a thing that we've, I think, got the most from, the most satisfaction, most rewarding. And also, when they first come along, you don't realise how much they change your life, but for the better, for the absolute better. And it's almost like when they do come along, like you've discovered the meaning of life.

• 14:00Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 14:00Declan Donnelly?

  And you find, you find levels of love within you that you didn't realise that were there. And for me, I was lucky enough to have two, have a girl and a boy. And when, and, and I was a bit worried when, when, before Jack came along. Cause I thought, God, am I ever going to be able to love him as much as I love Ayla?

• 14:17Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 14:18Declan Donnelly?

  And do I have to half my love to both of them? Do they, do they both get half of my love? Because she's got it all at the moment. And then he came along and you, you realise then, oh no, you don't half anything. You get double the love.

• 14:29Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 14:30Declan Donnelly?

  It, it, it goes again. You reach another level within you that you just find more love for this other little thing. It's the best, best thing ever. I wish I'd done it earlier and I wish I'd had ten.

• 14:43Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah. No, yeah, I agree. Yeah.

• 14:46Declan Donnelly?

  Maybe ten, maybe three.

• 14:49Ant McPartlin?

  No, I've got three and I'd, I'd, I'd have more. Was it, who we were talking to one day? Was it Jimmy Cole we were talking to about Fatherhood? And he speaks very highly of it as well. And he was saying, they're the best time wasters in the world. You put your phone down.

• 15:01Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 15:01Ant McPartlin?

  You, you don't check an emails, you're not at, at work. When you're in their company, especially when they're little, little, you can't. Do anything other than just focus on them.

• 15:11Declan Donnelly?

  Hmm.

• 15:12Ant McPartlin?

  And I find that even with my older girls as well, you know, when I'm with them, I just wanna be present.

• 15:15Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 15:16Ant McPartlin?

  And just, I wanna, I enjoy hanging out with them more than anybody else. You know, they're the most fun.

• 15:21Declan Donnelly?

  Mm hmm.

• 15:21Ant McPartlin?

  So's, but um, no, but it's, it's true, you know, they, they, I like being with them.

• 15:26Declan Donnelly?

  Hmm.

• 15:27Ant McPartlin?

  They make me laugh, they make me cry, they make me everything, it's just, it's wonderful.

• 15:31Declan Donnelly?

  The thing that having children forces you to do is to become instantly less selfish because you're there for these other people. And so that goes into your worldview, you see the whole world in a fresh, different way and in a, I think, a less selfish way.

• 15:45Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, I agree. You have to be less selfish because you have to think about, you know, their happiness is more important to me than my happiness. I mean, they're getting you nervous sometimes, like, but.

• 15:55Declan Donnelly?

  Oh god, almighty, I remember the good old days before I had them.

• 16:05Speaker 02

  Hi Alan and Dec, it's Tiana from Watford.

• 16:07Declan Donnelly?

  Hi.

• 16:07Speaker 02

  I need you to settle this debate once and for all.

• 16:09Declan Donnelly?

  Okay.

• 16:09Speaker 02

  Is a Jaffa cake a cake or a biscuit?

• 16:13Declan Donnelly?

  Great question.

• 16:14Ant McPartlin?

  Do you know what it?

• 16:15Declan Donnelly?

  Ooh.

• 16:15Ant McPartlin?

  Oh. You're not allergic to them like your cats?

• 16:19Declan Donnelly?

  No way, on the contrary.

• 16:21Ant McPartlin?

  You won't be screaming?

• 16:22Declan Donnelly?

  On the contrary. Is a Jaffa cake a cake or a biscuit?

• 16:29Ant McPartlin?

  Do you whack it all in?

• 16:30Speaker 02

  Oh.

• 16:31Ant McPartlin?

  What?

• 16:32Declan Donnelly?

  Oh.

• 16:32Ant McPartlin?

  What? I'm not some kind of brute. Do it in.

• 16:35Speaker 02

  Wow.

• 16:36Ant McPartlin?

  Why would you bite that? Just whack it all in there. Look like my Chinese, all in one.

• 16:42Declan Donnelly?

  Now, I am something of an aficionado when it comes to Jaffa cakes.

• 16:47Ant McPartlin?

  Yes, he's not dropping.

• 16:49Declan Donnelly?

  I was a member of the Jaffa cake fan club.

• 16:54Ant McPartlin?

  Can you believe it?

• 16:54Speaker 02

  He was.

• 16:55Declan Donnelly?

  I was.

• 16:56Ant McPartlin?

  He was? He was a member of the Jaffa cake fan club, you heard that right?

• 17:01Declan Donnelly?

  I was a lot younger, I was like thirty five, thirty six.

• 17:07Declan Donnelly?

  I don't know, I wrote off to be a munchkin. Because the advertising at the time was, we are the munchkins and we're mad on Jaffa cakes. So you could join the munchkin club or whatever it was.

• 17:17Ant McPartlin?

  Whatever it was, you know exactly what it was.

• 17:19Declan Donnelly?

  It was the munchkin club.

• 17:20Ant McPartlin?

  What did you get for your membership of this fan club?

• 17:23Declan Donnelly?

  I can't remember.

• 17:23Ant McPartlin?

  What did you get, like a pencil case or a badge? You must have got something.

• 17:27Declan Donnelly?

  I can't remember.

• 17:28Ant McPartlin?

  Well, you remember when I got in your car when I was like, we were seventeen and you passed your test and you had an MG Metrol?

• 17:35Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 17:35Ant McPartlin?

  It was back in the days when it was a cassette tape. And the cassette tape was a cassette tape half sticking out of the tape recorder in his car. And I looked at it and I was like, what is this? And that, wasn't that a?

• 17:50Declan Donnelly?

  McVitie's.

• 17:50Ant McPartlin?

  McVitie's.

• 17:51Declan Donnelly?

  Compilation.

• 17:52Ant McPartlin?

  A McVitie's compilation tape? Where'd you get that? Did you get that from the fan club?

• 17:58Declan Donnelly?

  No, I wrote, I sent off that separately.

• 18:00Ant McPartlin?

  It's a different fan, am I mixing up your fan clubs? One was a Jaffa cake fan club.

• 18:04Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah. And that was just McVitie's if you got coupons off your McVitie's biscuits and send them off, they gave you a free cassette of hits of the seventies.

• 18:10Ant McPartlin?

  How much time did you have on your hands to join all these fan clubs? What else were a fan club of?

• 18:16Declan Donnelly?

  The Beano.

• 18:17Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, yeah, yeah. I was a, I was a member of the Beano. Yeah, the Beano used to get little badges. Dennis the medicine Nasha, his dog. So to answer your question, is it a cake or a biscuit?

• 18:25Declan Donnelly?

  It is.

• 18:26Ant McPartlin?

  We've got waylaid.

• 18:27Declan Donnelly?

  It's a cake.

• 18:28Ant McPartlin?

  It is a cake, definitely a cake.

• 18:30Declan Donnelly?

  Just because they're in the biscuit aisle. Don't be fooled. They're trying to pull the wool over your eyes. You're eating cake.

• 18:36Ant McPartlin?

  It's definitely a cake. Good, good question. Yeah, you take them home.

• 18:40Declan Donnelly?

  Thank you. Another one?

• 18:41Ant McPartlin?

  Yes, please. Hi, Ant and Dec, it's me Alison Hammond here. I've just been on the takeout challenge with Sam Holland. And I was just wondering, if you was to cook me a meal, what would it be? And I want starters, mains and desserts. Thanks, boys.

• 18:59Declan Donnelly?

  Wow, she wants the whole lot. Shall we do this together?

• 19:02Ant McPartlin?

  Go on, man.

• 19:03Declan Donnelly?

  Because I can't be bothered to go through six courses.

• 19:07Ant McPartlin?

  Okay.

• 19:07Declan Donnelly?

  What should we start?

• 19:08Ant McPartlin?

  I know what we can start by giving out, which would be my death row meal. A Greg sausage roll as a starter. That's good. That's good. You can't beat it. It's got, it's got the pastry. It's got the sausage on the inside. You can have a little bit of sauce on the side if you want or not. It's up to you.

• 19:24Declan Donnelly?

  You'd have to present it in a nice way though.

• 19:25Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. You slice it all up.

• 19:27Declan Donnelly?

  Slice it in half.

• 19:27Ant McPartlin?

  Make it look like you've done it yourself.

• 19:28Declan Donnelly?

  On a diagonal slice.

• 19:29Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 19:30Declan Donnelly?

  Put, put one part on top of the other.

• 19:32Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 19:32Declan Donnelly?

  Little dollop of red, little dollop of brown.

• 19:34Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, make it look fancy.

• 19:35Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 19:35Ant McPartlin?

  And then Tita love the arm. Alison, sausage roll. She wouldn't know the difference and she'd love every bite.

• 19:43Declan Donnelly?

  To be fair, I'd take that.

• 19:44Ant McPartlin?

  See?

• 19:44Declan Donnelly?

  I'd have that.

• 19:45Ant McPartlin?

  So that's, that's what we do. Greg sausage roll for the first one.

• 19:48Declan Donnelly?

  Main course, cocker van.

• 19:49Ant McPartlin?

  What?

• 19:50Declan Donnelly?

  Cocker van.

• 19:50Ant McPartlin?

  You can't give Alison a ham and cocker van.

• 19:52Declan Donnelly?

  Why not?

• 19:53Ant McPartlin?

  It's, oh, that sounds rude. Is that the one with the little pickled onions in? Or is that beef bourguignon?

• 19:58Declan Donnelly?

  That's beef bourguignon, I think.

• 19:59Ant McPartlin?

  I like that.

• 19:59Declan Donnelly?

  Do you want to do that instead?

• 20:01Ant McPartlin?

  No, no, no. I'm, I'm, you're taking the lead on main course.

• 20:04Declan Donnelly?

  Am I?

• 20:04Ant McPartlin?

  I cooked all of the starter, which was a Greg sausage roll, which I sliced off.

• 20:08Declan Donnelly?

  Well, actually, my go-to fancy main course.

• 20:13Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 20:13Declan Donnelly?

  Would be chicken breast stuffed with mozzarella, basil and some blushed tomatoes.

• 20:20Ant McPartlin?

  You've never mentioned this.

• 20:21Declan Donnelly?

  Wrapped.

• 20:22Ant McPartlin?

  Ever.

• 20:22Declan Donnelly?

  Wrapped in Palmer ham.

• 20:23Ant McPartlin?

  What?

• 20:24Declan Donnelly?

  Mm, that would be my.

• 20:25Ant McPartlin?

  When do you make this?

• 20:26Declan Donnelly?

  I've done it a few times.

• 20:27Ant McPartlin?

  Have you?

• 20:27Declan Donnelly?

  I've done it for the current Mrs. Donnelly.

• 20:28Ant McPartlin?

  No, we live together. You didn't.

• 20:30Declan Donnelly?

  Never done that.

• 20:30Ant McPartlin?

  You'd never cook when we live together.

• 20:31Declan Donnelly?

  I did it for the current Mrs. Donnelly.

• 20:33Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, does she like it?

• 20:34Declan Donnelly?

  She loves it. Put a little toothpick in it.

• 20:36Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 20:36Declan Donnelly?

  To keep everything.

• 20:37Ant McPartlin?

  What do you call it?

• 20:38Declan Donnelly?

  Dinner.

• 20:40Ant McPartlin?

  Dex chicken?

• 20:40Declan Donnelly?

  Dex breasts.

• 20:41Ant McPartlin?

  So you've got, and sausage to start.

• 20:43Declan Donnelly?

  And then dex breasts.

• 20:44Ant McPartlin?

  For main.

• 20:45Declan Donnelly?

  Oh my God, where's, where's pudding going?

• 20:48Declan Donnelly?

  And then pudding's got to be chocolate.

• 20:49Ant McPartlin?

  Death by chocolate. Yeah, definitely. I could, I could do that. Or I could make my famous chocolate cornflake cake. Think she'd like that?

• 20:58Declan Donnelly?

  Yes.

• 20:58Ant McPartlin?

  Or would she like it juicier than that? I could make it extra chocolatey.

• 21:01Declan Donnelly?

  Talk about that, cause that's interesting. It's nice.

• 21:04Ant McPartlin?

  In a bowl.

• 21:04Declan Donnelly?

  Yes.

• 21:05Ant McPartlin?

  Over a pan of hot water. You melt butter.

• 21:08Declan Donnelly?

  Mm-hmm.

• 21:08Ant McPartlin?

  And salted butter. Chocolate, milk chocolate, thin. And don't go for like a cooking chocolate, cause that never tastes great. Go like a lind, thin, milk chocolate.

• 21:19Declan Donnelly?

  Expensive chocolate.

• 21:20Ant McPartlin?

  Expensive chocolate. Then golden syrup. Mix it all together and pour it over your cornflakes in a bowl. Make sure every last cornflake is covered in chocolate.

• 21:30Declan Donnelly?

  Make it super chocolatey.

• 21:31Ant McPartlin?

  Put it in a cake tin, put it in the fridge overnight and then you can slice it up. And you can see me make this on Taste Mates on Belt Box.

• 21:38Declan Donnelly?

  And I would have that with a dollop of ice cream.

• 21:41Ant McPartlin?

  Yes, you would. Yes, you would.

• 21:43Declan Donnelly?

  Some chocolate shavings.

• 21:44Ant McPartlin?

  We could give her the, the choice of ice cream and custard. So it looks like we've gone to extra effort.

• 21:49Declan Donnelly?

  Yes.

• 21:50Ant McPartlin?

  We're just, oh, cause all these are heating up the custards. That's what he's doing. It looks like we've really gone to town. Alison, custard or ice cream, the choice is yours. And you do the shavings. You ever shaved?

• 22:01Declan Donnelly?

  I've shaved since time. I'm not gonna serve it to her with a beard.

• 22:05Ant McPartlin?

  Nah. And then coffee and little mint chocolate?

• 22:08Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, no.

• 22:08Ant McPartlin?

  No, just get out the doll. Okay. I wanna see Alison and Sam. I haven't watched it yet.

• 22:13Speaker 06

  There's an emergency that happens in there.

• 22:15Ant McPartlin?

  There's an emergency?

• 22:16Speaker 06

  It's very dramatic.

• 22:17Ant McPartlin?

  Is it?

• 22:17Declan Donnelly?

  What do they make?

• 22:19Speaker 06

  They make Chinese chili beef.

• 22:22Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, yes.

• 22:23Speaker 06

  And special fried rice.

• 22:24Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, my God.

• 22:25Ant McPartlin?

  Oh my, Sausage Rolls not gonna cut it now, is it? After I've heard that. I'm gonna watch that.

• 22:30Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, that sounds lovely.

• 22:31Ant McPartlin?

  And that's on Belt Box?

• 22:32Speaker 06

  On Belt Box now.

• 22:34Ant McPartlin?

  Cool, okay. Let's chit chat it out.

• 22:39Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, I enjoy that again.

• 22:41Declan Donnelly?

  Is that it? Is anybody else there? Operator, operator. No, that's it. That's the lot. Off the lot for this week. Can you believe it?

• 22:48Ant McPartlin?

  What a shame. I look forward to it.

• 22:50Declan Donnelly?

  We'll be back on Thursday with another rep.

• 22:53Ant McPartlin?

  Big Fat Pod. Until then.

• 22:56Declan Donnelly?

  Respect, guys.

• 22:57Ant McPartlin?

  Respect, guys.

• 22:57Declan Donnelly?

  What did you call me at the end there? Call me?

• 23:00Ant McPartlin?

  Goodnight. Come on.

• 23:01Declan Donnelly?

  What did you say? They wanted to call me at the end?

• 23:10Speaker 00

  Ugh, I hate Mondays.

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