Ant & Dec Name A Listener's Baby!

Things get steamy in the studio as the boys dive into your letters, for a bonus egg-boiling special! Ant shows off his over the top goal celebration, has Dec been swindled by Elvis?? Plus the boys chat about your I’m a Celeb Christmas traditions. Ant & Dec reveal which TV shows they’d love to see revived and one listener writes in asking a very special request to name her unborn daughter! If you have a question or a story you'd like to share with us, send it to [email protected]. Sign off your email with the name you’d like us to use. If you’d rather we didn’t mention your surname, simply leave it out. And if you’d like a full-name shout-out, throw the whole thing in there! 00.40 - Elvis Boiled Eggs!02:10 - The Depth’s We’ve Plunged To03:20 - Nick, Tony & B*witched05:19 - Halloween Twins06.30 - Viva Las Vegas?08:00 - Hound Dog?10:00 - The Studio Stinks!15:20 - Which Way Round16:30 - Goal Celebration18:14 - A Yearly Tradition22:00 - Naming A Baby! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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• 0:00Speaker 00

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• 1:38Declan Donnelly?

  Quite excited about this. How many should I put in? Two? I'll make one for Ant as well. I know he doesn't like eggs really, but I'll put two in and then.

• 1:52Declan Donnelly?

  Looks good to me. My swaps arrived.

• 1:54Speaker 04

  From Gemma?

• 1:55Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah. So apparently he put it in.

• 1:59Ant McPartlin?

  Oh God.

• 2:02Ant McPartlin?

  What have you done here?

• 2:03Declan Donnelly?

  My swaps arrived.

• 2:04Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, that's good.

• 2:05Declan Donnelly?

  So I've got my musical Elvis egg.

• 2:09Ant McPartlin?

  You're gonna cook eggs in the studio? That's disgusting.

• 2:13Declan Donnelly?

  I've made.

• 2:14Ant McPartlin?

  No, you're eating it. I don't want an egg.

• 2:17Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, I think you'll want one.

• 2:18Ant McPartlin?

  I think I find I want.

• 2:19Declan Donnelly?

  I think you will once.

• 2:20Ant McPartlin?

  I want you to.

• 2:21Declan Donnelly?

  So this is gonna let us know when it's ready.

• 2:24Ant McPartlin?

  So is this the Elvis egg timer?

• 2:26Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 2:27Ant McPartlin?

  Who did you swap this with?

• 2:28Declan Donnelly?

  Gemma.

• 2:31Ant McPartlin?

  Just Gemma. So what are you waiting for?

• 2:33Declan Donnelly?

  Bring that gently to the boil.

• 2:35Ant McPartlin?

  What are you waiting for?

• 2:38Ant McPartlin?

  What's that?

• 2:38Declan Donnelly?

  That beep.

• 2:39Ant McPartlin?

  Means what? It's done already? That's great.

• 2:41Declan Donnelly?

  Thank you very much.

• 2:42Ant McPartlin?

  It's done?

• 2:43Declan Donnelly?

  No, no, no. That's just, it started.

• 2:45Ant McPartlin?

  So what song are you waiting for?

• 2:47Declan Donnelly?

  I don't, I've not heard it. This is the first time I've used it.

• 2:49Ant McPartlin?

  But wasn't there three different songs? One's like lightly boiled, the other is like.

• 2:53Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, maybe.

• 2:53Ant McPartlin?

  Medium and then the other one's hard boiled, something like that.

• 2:56Speaker 04

  You've got Viva Las Vegas for soft boiled.

• 2:58Declan Donnelly?

  Uh huh.

• 2:59Speaker 04

  Jailhouse Rock for slightly more and Hound Dog for hard boiled.

• 3:03Declan Donnelly?

  I think I want Jailhouse Rock. Yeah, just a nice, nice enough.

• 3:08Ant McPartlin?

  Oh Jesus, that's gonna stink even more. What are you putting more in for?

• 3:12Declan Donnelly?

  I'm not putting more in. I'm making room for these.

• 3:14Ant McPartlin?

  They're very white eggs, aren't they?

• 3:15Declan Donnelly?

  Hmm.

• 3:16Ant McPartlin?

  How American?

• 3:17Declan Donnelly?

  Hmm, do you like that?

• 3:18Ant McPartlin?

  No, I don't.

• 3:18Declan Donnelly?

  Why?

• 3:19Ant McPartlin?

  What's wrong with your old British eggs?

• 3:21Declan Donnelly?

  Good British eggs.

• 3:22Ant McPartlin?

  What's wrong with a good old British egg?

• 3:23Declan Donnelly?

  What's wrong with a good British egg?

• 3:24Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah. Why is everything so American these days?

• 3:26Declan Donnelly?

  I don't know.

• 3:27Ant McPartlin?

  Welcome once again to Hanging Out where it's the egg boiling special. Yawn. So are we just cracking on?

• 3:36Declan Donnelly?

  Hey.

• 3:37Ant McPartlin?

  Are we just cracking on?

• 3:38Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 3:39Ant McPartlin?

  Are you just gonna be constantly distracted by this?

• 3:41Declan Donnelly?

  I'm gonna be slightly distracted by my eggs. I wanna wait and see what happens.

• 3:46Ant McPartlin?

  I'd rather that. Is this content? Is this it? Is this the depths we plunge to?

• 3:53Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, pretty much.

• 3:56Declan Donnelly?

  Very much.

• 3:58Ant McPartlin?

  We can get on with the rest of the bit. I'm not gonna say it again. We can just get on with the rest of the pod.

• 4:03Declan Donnelly?

  Okay, let's do that.

• 4:04Ant McPartlin?

  And this can happen in the background, surely.

• 4:05Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, okay. We'll come back to the eggs.

• 4:07Ant McPartlin?

  We've got lots of letters, emails, correspondence from you guys that we would like to respond to, chat about, engage with. Why are you laughing?

• 4:17Declan Donnelly?

  Because that's what we'd like to respond to. Sounds like you've got a response to something that somebody brought up. This is our chance to respond to the allegations.

• 4:26Ant McPartlin?

  The allegations of poor quality entertainment. I mean, all you're doing is boiling eggs for Christ's sake. Get the letter bag, get the letters out. Come on.

• 4:34Declan Donnelly?

  One sec. Did the boil while I was away?

• 4:37Ant McPartlin?

  No, no noise. Are we sure it works? We just don't know, do we? Is this, is this?

• 4:43Declan Donnelly?

  It's a voyage of discovery.

• 4:44Ant McPartlin?

  It's maiden voyage.

• 4:45Declan Donnelly?

  Voyage of discovery for all of us.

• 4:47Ant McPartlin?

  I'll start then. I hope I'm not rudely interrupted by Elvis Presley.

• 4:53Ant McPartlin?

  Hi guys.

• 4:53Declan Donnelly?

  Hi.

• 4:54Ant McPartlin?

  Hi.

• 4:54Declan Donnelly?

  Hey.

• 4:55Ant McPartlin?

  I've been watching you since SMTV Live.

• 4:57Declan Donnelly?

  Sounds creepy.

• 4:58Ant McPartlin?

  I think she means me and Deck, not all of us, because that would be creepy. But one of my favorite moments from you guys is when Ant kept calling Nick by his character named Tony on A Celebrity.

• 5:11Declan Donnelly?

  This is Nick Pickard on A Celebrity.

• 5:13Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, I didn't keep calling it.

• 5:15Declan Donnelly?

  You called him a few times.

• 5:16Ant McPartlin?

  Twice.

• 5:17Declan Donnelly?

  You didn't call him Tony. He's Hollyoaks character.

• 5:19Ant McPartlin?

  Tony twice.

• 5:23Declan Donnelly?

  It was like, it was the surprise on his face as well when you did it.

• 5:27Ant McPartlin?

  Turn around. Well done, Tony. What, what did you call me? He must get that all the time as well. How annoying.

• 5:34Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, he's been in Hollyoaks forever.

• 5:35Ant McPartlin?

  Any other moments you guys have faffed up that you can remember?

• 5:40Declan Donnelly?

  Faffed up.

• 5:41Ant McPartlin?

  Good letter, Nobila. I'm sure, I'm sure. There must have been.

• 5:45Declan Donnelly?

  There's gonna be loads.

• 5:46Ant McPartlin?

  Many. I've called people different names before. Remember that time on Chums when you had to intro Bewitched?

• 5:53Declan Donnelly?

  Yes.

• 5:53Ant McPartlin?

  Into the Chums flat?

• 5:54Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah. Had a massive brain fart, couldn't remember any of their names. And there was, there was always a knock at the door on the Chums flat. So you'd go and answer the door and you go.

• 6:03Ant McPartlin?

  And you'd almost say their name as you opened the door. Because we rehearsed it, we knew who was coming in.

• 6:08Declan Donnelly?

  So it would be the first one, I think was like, it's Sinead from Bewitched. And she would walk in and she does a thing and then the door closes and then there's a couple of minutes passing. Another one and I was like, oh my God, I can't remember. I can't remember any of Bewitched's names. I have massive brain fart, can't remember. And I'd just open the door and I went, it's another one of Bewitched. And then I think it goes on and then it goes to the next one, I go, it's somebody else from Bewitched.

• 6:36Ant McPartlin?

  It's the last one from Bewitched. Yeah, there's been, there's been quite a few of them in our career. But thanks for bringing that up. Glad that, glad you, glad that entertained you.

• 6:45Declan Donnelly?

  Thanks for making us reflect on all the times we've faffed up. Hi lads in Heckler's Corner.

• 6:51Ant McPartlin?

  Hey. Yo.

• 6:53Declan Donnelly?

  Loving the podcast. It got me through my pregnancy. Every appointment and worry were made easier by the laughs created by listening to yous. Even at my appointments, I would laugh out loud without a care in the world.

• 7:03Ant McPartlin?

  That's nice.

• 7:04Declan Donnelly?

  That's lovely. Carleen from Newcastle, that is. So I wasn't allowed to call my twin boys Ant and Deck. So I've done the next best thing and dressed them up for Halloween.

• 7:17Ant McPartlin?

  Really?

• 7:17Declan Donnelly?

  Meet Leo and Lucas. They're five months old, dressed as my favorite Northerners. Oh my goodness.

• 7:24Ant McPartlin?

  That is amazing.

• 7:26Declan Donnelly?

  The cutest thing I've ever seen.

• 7:27Ant McPartlin?

  That is, and see, and you didn't like Halloween until this point. But is that, that's not AI though?

• 7:33Speaker 04

  No.

• 7:34Ant McPartlin?

  That looks like it could be AI.

• 7:36Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 7:37Ant McPartlin?

  Doesn't it?

• 7:37Declan Donnelly?

  It does look like it.

• 7:38Ant McPartlin?

  Where did they get the lapel mics from? There's a lot of questions I've got here. We've got lapel mics, they've got proper handheld microphone. Well, one has. The other one's got the Ant and Dec starting to take away cue codes in his hands, like they're about to do a surprise hit on the audience, on an audience member. Very, very good, that. Very good.

• 7:59Declan Donnelly?

  That's super cute.

• 8:05Declan Donnelly?

  Viva Las Vegas. Viva Las Vegas. Las Vegas. That's soft boiled. That's soft boiled.

• 8:13Ant McPartlin?

  I thought it was gonna sing. I thought it was, you'd be miss all there.

• 8:17Declan Donnelly?

  A little bit.

• 8:18Ant McPartlin?

  You haven't, haven't you though? I thought it was gonna be a song.

• 8:21Declan Donnelly?

  I'm trying to hide my disappointment.

• 8:27Ant McPartlin?

  It's not really an Elvis song, is it? What's this one now?

• 8:34Declan Donnelly?

  That was, that was just a beep.

• 8:36Ant McPartlin?

  Is that because it's going to the next level? Or it's ready at that level?

• 8:39Declan Donnelly?

  I don't know. She didn't send any instructions. She didn't send any.

• 8:45Ant McPartlin?

  Viva Las Vegas.

• 8:47Declan Donnelly?

  Viva Las Vegas. That's still soft boiled. Viva.

• 8:50Ant McPartlin?

  It is like Nokia ringtone.

• 8:54Declan Donnelly?

  Soft boiled egg. One through the county jail.

• 8:57Ant McPartlin?

  We're just looking at eggs.

• 8:58Declan Donnelly?

  I might, but I might have to interject at any moment.

• 9:01Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah. Interject away. Hi guys.

• 9:06Declan Donnelly?

  Viva Las Vegas. I'm getting worried now. Viva, viva Las Vegas. Soft boiled egg.

• 9:16Ant McPartlin?

  Hi guys. My question is, if you could revive any game show and make yourselves hosts, what would you bring back and why? Respect guys, Matthew.

• 9:27Declan Donnelly?

  Naked attraction.

• 9:32Ant McPartlin?

  What's this?

• 9:38Ant McPartlin?

  That's not Jailhouse. Hold on, someone's phone's ringing.

• 9:41Declan Donnelly?

  No, that was Jailhouse Rock.

• 9:42Ant McPartlin?

  Someone's Nokia 6410 ringing.

• 9:44Declan Donnelly?

  I'm gonna take mine out.

• 9:46Ant McPartlin?

  Why'd you, why'd you take it out now?

• 9:48Declan Donnelly?

  Because that's.

• 9:49Ant McPartlin?

  You only, you only heard it once.

• 9:50Declan Donnelly?

  That's mid boiled.

• 9:51Ant McPartlin?

  You only heard it once.

• 9:52Declan Donnelly?

  I'm not, I'm not, I'm not chancing it.

• 9:57Ant McPartlin?

  Well, you're not chancing to be overcooked. Oh, he's going in. He's going in. You need some bread to dip in it. You need some soldiers. You've got no soldiers.

• 10:09Ant McPartlin?

  What is this now? That's not Jailhouse Rock, guys.

• 10:15Declan Donnelly?

  That's not Jailhouse.

• 10:16Ant McPartlin?

  What is that?

• 10:17Declan Donnelly?

  Is that Hound Dog? Has she got them the wrong way around?

• 10:20Ant McPartlin?

  Well, happy with that consistency, are you?

• 10:24Declan Donnelly?

  Blimming perfect.

• 10:25Speaker 04

  That's really good.

• 10:27Declan Donnelly?

  Absolutely perfect. That is egg exactly how I wanted it.

• 10:35Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, that's Hound Dog. I'm rocking, I'm rocking about a hound dog. Rocking all the time, rocking all the time.

• 10:43Ant McPartlin?

  Shut up, there's no rocking.

• 10:44Declan Donnelly?

  That is Hound Dog.

• 10:45Ant McPartlin?

  Shut up, it's not.

• 10:47Declan Donnelly?

  Listen. Oh, she stopped.

• 10:51Ant McPartlin?

  That can't have jumped from that to hard boiled already.

• 10:53Declan Donnelly?

  You ain't nothing but a hound dog. Crying all the time. Hound dog. Crying all the time.

• 11:02Ant McPartlin?

  So what's the end of the hard boiled though?

• 11:08Declan Donnelly?

  Nothing but a hand dog, grey and all the time down.

• 11:20Ant McPartlin?

  What a lot. Drop his eggs.

• 11:22Declan Donnelly?

  Which one was it?

• 11:23Ant McPartlin?

  Oh no.

• 11:27Ant McPartlin?

  The hottest one, surely, the hottest one. That could do with being in a bit longer.

• 11:31Declan Donnelly?

  Look at that.

• 11:33Ant McPartlin?

  Oh no, it's gonna sting, man.

• 11:36Declan Donnelly?

  It's so, it's so hot.

• 11:38Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, well, of course it's hot.

• 11:42Ant McPartlin?

  That's not hard boiled.

• 11:44Declan Donnelly?

  No, that's perfect.

• 11:45Ant McPartlin?

  I'm gonna send that back to the kitchen.

• 11:53Ant McPartlin?

  What's it meant to be?

• 11:55Declan Donnelly?

  What's that?

• 11:58Declan Donnelly?

  What's that?

• 12:01Ant McPartlin?

  Has he gone into another artist's songs now?

• 12:05Declan Donnelly?

  What was that?

• 12:06Ant McPartlin?

  Put it back in, see if it gets done again. Is there one left in there?

• 12:10Declan Donnelly?

  No.

• 12:10Ant McPartlin?

  Four, it stinks of egg in here. Stinks of egg in here now.

• 12:14Declan Donnelly?

  It's really smelly. Um, that looks lush, though.

• 12:18Ant McPartlin?

  Are we done? Are we done with the eggs now? Oh, he's still going. He's still going.

• 12:25Declan Donnelly?

  What's that one?

• 12:32Declan Donnelly?

  You should.

• 12:35Declan Donnelly?

  That's not even.

• 12:35Ant McPartlin?

  Is that it? Is that it?

• 12:37Declan Donnelly?

  That's Geri Lee Lewis.

• 12:44Declan Donnelly?

  This episode is brought to you in partnership with Airbnb.

• 12:48Ant McPartlin?

  You know, you were talking the other day about your Uncle Bob.

• 12:50Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, no, I don't have an Uncle Bob.

• 12:52Ant McPartlin?

  Well, now you were, you were talking about him. You mentioned him last time we talked about this, your, your Uncle Bob.

• 12:56Declan Donnelly?

  It was a turn of phrase.

• 12:57Ant McPartlin?

  Well, I have a question for your Uncle Bob.

• 13:00Declan Donnelly?

  Not his name, but far away.

• 13:01Ant McPartlin?

  Okay, right. So he's the one who lists his home on Airbnb when he travels for work, your Uncle Bob.

• 13:07Declan Donnelly?

  Yes, something like that.

• 13:08Ant McPartlin?

  Uh, so my question is, what happens when Uncle Bob is away for a long stretch and there's a changeover of people staying in the house?

• 13:19Declan Donnelly?

  Sounds like he's got a chill. Right.

• 13:21Ant McPartlin?

  How is Uncle Bob meant to manage that?

• 13:23Declan Donnelly?

  Well, if you go away for a stint, say three months, and you have changeovers and you, you're not physically there.

• 13:30Ant McPartlin?

  Yes.

• 13:31Declan Donnelly?

  What you do is you can get somebody nearby the property to come and help you with the changeovers and they are what's known as a co-host.

• 13:38Ant McPartlin?

  A bit like us.

• 13:39Declan Donnelly?

  Yes, yeah, like us. But we're not available to go around and do the turn, turnaround for your Airbnb. Just wanted to make that clear.

• 13:47Ant McPartlin?

  Right.

• 13:47Declan Donnelly?

  And of course, there's the money you're getting from listing your home as well.

• 13:52Ant McPartlin?

  So what about welcoming guests, cleaning?

• 13:54Declan Donnelly?

  Yes.

• 13:55Ant McPartlin?

  You're making sure the house is in order.

• 13:57Declan Donnelly?

  Yes.

• 13:57Ant McPartlin?

  Sounds good. Okay.

• 13:58Declan Donnelly?

  There you go. And, and Bob's your uncle.

• 14:00Ant McPartlin?

  See, you keep saying it, but he's not my uncle. I don't have an Uncle Bob.

• 14:04Declan Donnelly?

  He's not my uncle either.

• 14:05Ant McPartlin?

  I've got one with Terry. Terry and Bob should get together.

• 14:09Ant McPartlin?

  Thinking about hosting, but need a little extra help? Find a co-host on airbnb.co.uk/host.

• 14:16Declan Donnelly?

  I might try and find a new co-host.

• 14:21Ant McPartlin?

  This next section is sponsored by Gemini, Google's AI app. Autumn, Declan.

• 14:26Declan Donnelly?

  Love Autumn.

• 14:27Ant McPartlin?

  It's a good time to get back into a routine.

• 14:29Declan Donnelly?

  You know who's not in a routine?

• 14:31Ant McPartlin?

  Who?

• 14:32Declan Donnelly?

  Rocky the dog.

• 14:33Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, really? Rocky? Well, how, why?

• 14:36Declan Donnelly?

  He hasn't quite got back into his routine since summer. I think summer.

• 14:39Ant McPartlin?

  Is he still mentally on his holidays?

• 14:41Declan Donnelly?

  Mentally, he's still on his holidays. But he's like waking up in the mornings really early, asking for food. Going to bed late, which is not great for my routine. He's 13 now as well. So he's finding it hard, I think, to get back into a routine since the summer.

• 14:57Ant McPartlin?

  Gemini, I have a 13-year-old dachshund called Rocky.

• 15:03Declan Donnelly?

  Oh my gosh, so do I.

• 15:05Ant McPartlin?

  Don't be silly. We need to get Rocky used to not being around us humans as much in the day again after the summer. Can you give me a gradual routine, please? Okay, there's a schedule.

• 15:23Declan Donnelly?

  Go on.

• 15:24Ant McPartlin?

  Week one, the I forgot my keys phase.

• 15:26Declan Donnelly?

  Right, yeah, I know this.

• 15:26Ant McPartlin?

  So showing Rocky that departures are completely normal and brief. So I forgot my keys, pop out the room, pop back in.

• 15:33Declan Donnelly?

  Back in.

• 15:33Ant McPartlin?

  You haven't forgot your keys.

• 15:35Declan Donnelly?

  No.

• 15:35Ant McPartlin?

  Just, you don't have to say that.

• 15:37Declan Donnelly?

  No.

• 15:37Ant McPartlin?

  Week two, the pop into the shops phase.

• 15:39Declan Donnelly?

  Right.

• 15:40Ant McPartlin?

  That makes sense, getting Rocky used to slightly longer solo stretches. And lastly, the full re-rehearsal. So it's all about extending Rocky's alone time and getting his meals and naps regular. And he loves a nap. Do you ever wonder what dogs do when we're out the room?

• 15:57Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, all the time. What do they get up to? Or do they just?

• 16:00Ant McPartlin?

  Did he watch TV?

• 16:01Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 16:01Ant McPartlin?

  Eat popcorn?

• 16:02Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 16:02Ant McPartlin?

  Like just sit on the sofa?

• 16:04Declan Donnelly?

  Actually, that's a good idea.

• 16:05Ant McPartlin?

  What?

• 16:05Declan Donnelly?

  Why don't we ask and see if there are activities or things that I can leave him with to fill their time?

• 16:12Ant McPartlin?

  Gemini, could you give me some good enrichment activities I could leave for Rocky when we pop out for an hour?

• 16:20Declan Donnelly?

  And a half.

• 16:21Ant McPartlin?

  You've got stuff like, there's some examples here. Thanks, Gemini. The frozen lick mat, the snuffle mat safari. You heard of this?

• 16:28Declan Donnelly?

  No.

• 16:28Ant McPartlin?

  The soft rubber food pyramid. Do you know this?

• 16:32Declan Donnelly?

  No.

• 16:32Ant McPartlin?

  Rule of thumb, before you leave the house, give Rocky his enrichment toy five minutes before you walk out the door. If he's already happily focused on licking or sniffing treats, he won't even notice the front door click shut.

• 16:45Declan Donnelly?

  That's a great call. Download the Gemini app today to unlock the power of Google AI on your phone. Check responses. Setup required. Compatibility and availability varies. 18 plus.

• 17:00Ant McPartlin?

  So back to the question, if you, oh, he's eating it, he's eating it, guys.

• 17:04Declan Donnelly?

  Of course I am.

• 17:04Ant McPartlin?

  It's not hard boiled. Do you know what some songs? Yeah, but what, what would you class that as? You wouldn't class that as hard boiled?

• 17:12Declan Donnelly?

  Soft boiled.

• 17:13Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah? What, what about the next one then?

• 17:16Declan Donnelly?

  Mid boiled.

• 17:18Ant McPartlin?

  I wanted hard boiled. What was hard boiled?

• 17:22Ant McPartlin?

  The one that we've just heard?

• 17:23Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 17:23Ant McPartlin?

  Ah, we took it out too early. So the question again was, if you could revive any game show, make yourselves host, what would you bring back and why? Matthew.

• 17:34Declan Donnelly?

  Stars and Rises.

• 17:36Ant McPartlin?

  Is that what you'd like to bring back?

• 17:37Declan Donnelly?

  No, I thought you were saying Matthew, Tonight Matthew.

• 17:39Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, no, no, it's from Matthew.

• 17:40Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, it's from Matthew.

• 17:44Declan Donnelly?

  I thought you were saying Tonight Matthew.

• 17:46Ant McPartlin?

  This episode is chaos, man. Chaos. Do you know there's a show, Game Show Marathon?

• 17:50Declan Donnelly?

  Alan Carr does it now, I think, doesn't he?

• 17:51Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, we did Play Cards Right, we did The Price is Right, we did Bullseye, I think. We did all of those kind of really big.

• 18:00Declan Donnelly?

  The Golden Shot we did.

• 18:01Ant McPartlin?

  The Golden Shot, yeah. All those really big game shows and quiz shows from when, when we were growing up. And we put them all together and we had celebrities play them. And it was really good. We had a really good time. I think we done two series of it.

• 18:13Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 18:13Ant McPartlin?

  We had a right laugh doing it.

• 18:15Declan Donnelly?

  Price is Right, did you say Price is Right?

• 18:16Ant McPartlin?

  I did say Price is Right, you were eating eggs. But that was, so we got a chance to kind of host a lot of our favourite shows growing up. But a lot of them, what you found was, we'd say, when we were going through the rules of these games, we'd go, well, how did they decide which contestant went first or which? They tossed a column backstage. Everything was just, they tossed a column backstage.

• 18:35Declan Donnelly?

  Hmm. Was it every week we did a different show?

• 18:38Ant McPartlin?

  Yes.

• 18:38Declan Donnelly?

  So every week we had to learn a new set of rules, new set of what happens if this happens, new set of contingencies. It was quite a lot of work.

• 18:45Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, it was. It was a lot of work. Tell you one show that they haven't brought back, I don't think, um, is Going for Gold.

• 18:53Declan Donnelly?

  I love Going for Gold.

• 18:54Ant McPartlin?

  Which was a brilliant show. It was a daytime quiz show which featured people from different European countries. And they would all play against each other. That would be a good one to bring back. Super size it, bring it back.

• 19:08Speaker 04

  Was there a theme tune?

• 19:09Declan Donnelly?

  It would go do, do, do, do, do, do, do, and there'd be close-ups of all the players and they'd all go like that.

• 19:15Ant McPartlin?

  The heat is on, the time is right, it's time for you to play your game.

• 19:21Declan Donnelly?

  Please welcome your host, Henry Kelly. Henry would come on down the stairs. Great.

• 19:26Ant McPartlin?

  It was very good. That would be a good one to bring back.

• 19:28Declan Donnelly?

  Let's bring that back.

• 19:28Ant McPartlin?

  We might work on that.

• 19:29Declan Donnelly?

  I've got a letter here from Susan in Waterford in Ireland.

• 19:33Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, lovely.

• 19:33Declan Donnelly?

  Where the crystal comes from.

• 19:34Ant McPartlin?

  Where the crystal comes from.

• 19:35Declan Donnelly?

  Hi, guys, and hecklers corner.

• 19:37Ant McPartlin?

  Hi.

• 19:38Declan Donnelly?

  Who are getting more fun every week.

• 19:41Ant McPartlin?

  Are they now?

• 19:45Ant McPartlin?

  How, how, how have they come to that conclusion?

• 19:47Declan Donnelly?

  She's got that idea. Do ye guys ever want to stand on the other side of each other?

• 19:51Ant McPartlin?

  No.

• 19:52Declan Donnelly?

  And do ye just naturally stand on the deck when out and about?

• 19:55Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, we end up sitting that way around or standing that way around, just.

• 20:00Declan Donnelly?

  We sit that way around in the car, don't we?

• 20:01Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, we do. Yeah, we do, actually. We tend to just stand that way around in, in real life.

• 20:06Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, we do. Funny, isn't it?

• 20:08Ant McPartlin?

  But we don't want to stand the other way around on TV. It feels weird.

• 20:11Declan Donnelly?

  Feels weird.

• 20:12Ant McPartlin?

  We've been doing it for so long now. And it kind of happened by accident, but we got quickly used to it. And then we decided, yeah, that's the thing. If you're watching the TV, it's on deck, left to right, on deck. So we kind of stayed with it. And now when we don't stand that way around, it's very odd.

• 20:31Ant McPartlin?

  Good question, though. Ye, thank ye for the lovely question.

• 20:34Declan Donnelly?

  Thank ye, Susan.

• 20:35Ant McPartlin?

  In Waterford. Respect, guys, and to hecklers corner, respect also. A scenario.

• 20:43Ant McPartlin?

  You go to St James's Park to watch your beloved Newcastle United. The squad has been ravaged by illness. So Matthias Yasler asks if you could sit on the bench just in case he needs you. Yasler, with minutes to go, injuries mean you get the call to come on. You do and you score an unforgettable last minute winner.

• 21:07Declan Donnelly?

  This sounds like a dream that I've had.

• 21:09Ant McPartlin?

  What's your goal celebration? All the best, Gareth from Birmingham. Well.

• 21:16Ant McPartlin?

  It would be years and years of pent up aggression.

• 21:21Declan Donnelly?

  Frustration.

• 21:22Ant McPartlin?

  Frustration and emotion that you have as a Newcastle United fan. And the fact that you can't be on the pitch doing what they do.

• 21:30Declan Donnelly?

  Hmm.

• 21:31Ant McPartlin?

  So all of that would come out, and I'm not quite sure how it would come out.

• 21:42Ant McPartlin?

  That, it would be that maybe, something like that. Yours?

• 21:46Declan Donnelly?

  I would do all of the celebrations you've never seen.

• 21:50Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 21:50Declan Donnelly?

  So I'd start off with She-Ra, then I'd do a knee slide.

• 21:53Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 21:54Declan Donnelly?

  Then I'd take my top off, swing it around my head.

• 21:56Ant McPartlin?

  Get booked.

• 21:57Declan Donnelly?

  Get booked, then I'd do a belly slide.

• 21:58Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, get sent off.

• 21:59Declan Donnelly?

  Get sent off, but I wouldn't care by that point.

• 22:02Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, you scored the winner.

• 22:03Declan Donnelly?

  Scored the winner. And this is probably gonna be your only ever appearance.

• 22:05Ant McPartlin?

  Well, I don't know. The fans want you to play again.

• 22:08Declan Donnelly?

  Well, they might do, but I've got other things to do. I'm needed elsewhere.

• 22:11Ant McPartlin?

  I've gotta go to the jungle.

• 22:12Declan Donnelly?

  I'm needed in Australia. I've gotta entertain the nation.

• 22:19Ant McPartlin?

  Please, don't say that.

• 22:22Declan Donnelly?

  I've got one here from Katie in Hartlepool. Hey Ant Dec and Heckles Corner. For as long as I can remember, we've had one very important rule in our family. That the Christmas tree goes up the day I'm a Celebrity starts.

• 22:35Ant McPartlin?

  Okay.

• 22:37Declan Donnelly?

  That's quite good.

• 22:37Ant McPartlin?

  That's a good rule.

• 22:38Declan Donnelly?

  Forget December the first, forget the usual Christmas countdown. In our house, Christmas officially starts when Aunt and Dec head to the jungle. And if that wasn't enough, we've recently taken the tradition one step further. Every year when we pack the Christmas tree away, we put some money away with it. Then when we get the tree back out the following year, we've got our very own little Chinese takeaway fund.

• 22:58Ant McPartlin?

  That's a great idea. So they get a Chinese, then they put the Christmas tree up. How very festive.

• 23:06Declan Donnelly?

  So now our yearly ritual is putting the Christmas tree up, ordering Chinese, getting in our comfy's and settling down to watch you two on I'm a Celebrity.

• 23:13Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, I'm coming round.

• 23:14Declan Donnelly?

  I don't think Christmas would feel right without it.

• 23:17Ant McPartlin?

  That's brilliant. That's a really good tradition. I'm interested to know anybody else's traditions out there when watching I'm a Celebrity. It's been going so long now and it's on at the same time-ish every year, give or take a few days. So you must end up doing the same thing. There must be more traditions out there. There must be more things you do when I'm a Celebrity starts that you don't do before I'm a Celebrity's on. Do you know what I mean?

• 23:41Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 23:42Ant McPartlin?

  Once I'm a Celebrity starts, I've heard people say, that's it, I stay in then and save me money for Christmas. Because I've got something to watch every night at nine o'clock.

• 23:51Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 23:51Ant McPartlin?

  So that's a, that's a good way of knowing Christmas is coming. Or they start their Christmas shopping while I'm a Celebrity starts.

• 23:57Declan Donnelly?

  Right. That's good. That means your tree is up quite early. Cause we, I'm a Celebrity starts mid-November. That's a long time for the tree to be up. If that's a real tree, it's gonna struggle.

• 24:09Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, you couldn't go to a real tree. It'd be dead by Christmas.

• 24:12Declan Donnelly?

  That's what I mean.

• 24:12Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 24:13Declan Donnelly?

  So you have to have a fake tree for that.

• 24:15Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, well, I'm sure it is a fake tree because that's where they hide their money, you see.

• 24:18Declan Donnelly?

  Hmm.

• 24:19Ant McPartlin?

  The tree.

• 24:20Declan Donnelly?

  That is a great idea though, the little Chinese takeaway fund. What a lovely little surprise because you forget about it all year and then there it's there.

• 24:25Ant McPartlin?

  Do you know why we're quite lucky, the fact that, well, we're lucky because we get to go to Australia every year, right? When the weather turns a little bit poor over here and cold and wet.

• 24:35Declan Donnelly?

  Like it is now.

• 24:37Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, very much like it is now. There's that. But what we don't, we're very lucky as well is that we get back with quite a limited time and we dive straight into Christmasy things. And we're, we're not sick of Christmas. Because I think a lot of people get sick of Christmas songs.

• 24:52Declan Donnelly?

  Mm-hmm.

• 24:53Ant McPartlin?

  The Christmasy-ness of everything. There's too much of it. It starts too early.

• 24:57Declan Donnelly?

  So it's not Christmasy at all. Then suddenly when you get back to the UK, it's like you're just dunked straight into the deep end of Christmas.

• 25:06Ant McPartlin?

  Christmas is thrown all over you.

• 25:07Declan Donnelly?

  It's, it's Last Christmas, Wham! is on the radio, Fairy Tale of New York. Everything is Christmasy. All the adverts are Christmasy. All the TV shows are Christmas specials. It's so Christmasy when we get back. I love it. I look forward.

• 25:22Ant McPartlin?

  We're not sickened by it.

• 25:23Declan Donnelly?

  But we're not sickened by it.

• 25:24Ant McPartlin?

  That's what I'm saying. That's the good thing.

• 25:26Declan Donnelly?

  Because we, our Christmas preparation really starts mid-December.

• 25:30Ant McPartlin?

  It does mean you have to get very organised and by Christmas presents before you go to Australia.

• 25:35Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 25:36Ant McPartlin?

  I say we, my wife wants to get organised. If you're watching, it's time you got organised.

• 25:45Declan Donnelly?

  Christmas is coming. Come on, get organised. Katie says, I tune into the pod every Monday and Thursday, listening to and from work and she's never missed an episode.

• 25:54Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, well done.

• 25:55Declan Donnelly?

  Thank you, Katie. Thanks for all of your support.

• 25:57Ant McPartlin?

  Love that lad. That was really good.

• 25:59Declan Donnelly?

  I feel Christmasy now.

• 26:01Ant McPartlin?

  Well, you shouldn't. Save it when you get back. It's too early. Whoa, this is a biggie. Hi Ant Dec and Heckles Corner team.

• 26:09Declan Donnelly?

  Hey.

• 26:10Ant McPartlin?

  You might remember me from the very first Famous Guy Swaps Things. I wrote an offer to swap my husband's Playstation.

• 26:18Declan Donnelly?

  Yes.

• 26:18Ant McPartlin?

  When you featured it on the show, you actually announced that I was pregnant, making you the very first ones to find out.

• 26:26Declan Donnelly?

  Oh.

• 26:27Ant McPartlin?

  Well, my new baby girl is due on December the 15th and I desperately need your help choosing a name for her. My first daughter is also called Poppy and we've narrowed it down to six names. My top three and my husband's top three. We're a complete dead end and we can't agree. So could you please help us out? So in no particular order, she hasn't put an order here, her top three, her husband's, they're mixed.

• 26:51Declan Donnelly?

  Sometimes as well, you need a fresh pair of ears on it and a fresh perspective. Because sometimes you could be in, in name, Quagmire for ages, going round and round and round. We had that with Isla. We had a bunch of names for her. And we went in on the morning, we were in the hospital and Ali was with one of the doctors and the anaesthetist's assistant was there. And she said, so what? She was a little Australian woman. She went, what names have you got? And we've got, we went, oh, well, we're thinking of.

• 27:24Ant McPartlin?

  Australian spoken Australian woman? Or is that just your accent?

• 27:26Declan Donnelly?

  No, that was her.

• 27:27Ant McPartlin?

  Okay.

• 27:27Declan Donnelly?

  What names have you got? I went, oh, we're thinking, maybe Rose. She went, nah.

• 27:35Ant McPartlin?

  Did she?

• 27:35Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah. And then we went, Mary? Nah. She was, no throw on it. And then we said, Isla? And she went, yeah, I like Isla. And that's how Isla was named.

• 27:46Ant McPartlin?

  Wow.

• 27:48Declan Donnelly?

  We went, okay, we'll have that one then.

• 27:49Ant McPartlin?

  Should we just call that nurse? Because she'll give a, she'll give a really good.

• 27:52Declan Donnelly?

  Very honest opinion. I won't be as brutal as her, but come on, hit me.

• 27:56Ant McPartlin?

  If your other daughter's called Poppy though, you might wanna consider Daisy. They do work well together.

• 28:00Declan Donnelly?

  Daisy and Poppy.

• 28:02Ant McPartlin?

  And they do work very well. Here is the top six. Otterly.

• 28:07Declan Donnelly?

  Nah.

• 28:08Ant McPartlin?

  Okay, good.

• 28:09Declan Donnelly?

  Otterly? I've never heard of that.

• 28:10Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 28:11Declan Donnelly?

  How do you spell that?

• 28:13Ant McPartlin?

  O double T, I, L, I, E. Otterly. I've heard of an Otterly before.

• 28:20Declan Donnelly?

  Have you?

• 28:21Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, it's nice, isn't it?

• 28:22Declan Donnelly?

  It is nice.

• 28:23Ant McPartlin?

  Two, Noelly? Or just Noel?

• 28:26Declan Donnelly?

  Noel? And how do you spell that? Is it with an L or Noel?

• 28:32Ant McPartlin?

  Two Ls.

• 28:34Declan Donnelly?

  No.

• 28:34Ant McPartlin?

  No, no, we get it, we get it. Two Ls.

• 28:39Declan Donnelly?

  I like that because it's Christmasy as well.

• 28:41Ant McPartlin?

  Well, the baby's not just for Christmas, it's for the rest of your life. Mila. Mila Kunis.

• 28:49Declan Donnelly?

  M I L A?

• 28:50Ant McPartlin?

  M I L A, yes.

• 28:52Declan Donnelly?

  Okay.

• 28:53Ant McPartlin?

  Ira?

• 28:53Declan Donnelly?

  Sorry?

• 28:54Ant McPartlin?

  Ira. Ira? Ira? Ira? Spelled E-I-R-A. Want us to hear how to pronounce it?

• 29:01Speaker 04

  They're gonna spend their life saying that.

• 29:02Ant McPartlin?

  She's gonna spend their life explaining.

• 29:05Declan Donnelly?

  How many people going, is it Ira? Ira? Ira, Ira?

• 29:08Ant McPartlin?

  No, that's a no. Okay?

• 29:10Declan Donnelly?

  Nah. Nah.

• 29:11Ant McPartlin?

  Five. Kaya. Kaya. C-A-I-A.

• 29:17Declan Donnelly?

  Kaya?

• 29:18Ant McPartlin?

  Slash K-A-Y-A.

• 29:22Declan Donnelly?

  Kaya.

• 29:23Ant McPartlin?

  Kaya. Kaya. Okay. And then cello.

• 29:29Declan Donnelly?

  You're making no.

• 29:30Ant McPartlin?

  C-E double L-O. I'm not. Cello.

• 29:34Declan Donnelly?

  You can't call it cello.

• 29:35Ant McPartlin?

  Cello then. Cello.

• 29:37Declan Donnelly?

  Nah. Cello?

• 29:39Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, just look.

• 29:41Declan Donnelly?

  Cello?

• 29:44Ant McPartlin?

  I think you should go for Daisy. I would be done with it.

• 29:47Declan Donnelly?

  Let me have a look at the others. I like Noel.

• 29:50Ant McPartlin?

  I like Otterly.

• 29:53Declan Donnelly?

  I like Mila.

• 29:54Ant McPartlin?

  Mila, Otterly.

• 29:55Declan Donnelly?

  Ira is hard because you don't know how to say it. Let us know though.

• 29:59Ant McPartlin?

  Let us know and send us a pic. It's not long now.

• 30:02Declan Donnelly?

  Not long.

• 30:02Ant McPartlin?

  We would like a pic. Good luck.

• 30:04Declan Donnelly?

  Please.

• 30:04Ant McPartlin?

  Good luck with the birth. Good luck with everything. That's it. I think that's everything. We've boiled eggs. We've answered questions. We've had fun.

• 30:12Declan Donnelly?

  I am a big fan of eggs and it is a bit smelly in here now.

• 30:15Ant McPartlin?

  It stinks.

• 30:16Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, it is a bit. Can you not?

• 30:18Ant McPartlin?

  Are you egg blind? You're all egg blind and egg bound, probably knowing him.

• 30:22Declan Donnelly?

  That's it for today. We'll be back on Thursday with the main show. We'll clear all of this up by then and it'll be.

• 30:27Ant McPartlin?

  Is it our last one? It's our last one.

• 30:30Declan Donnelly?

  It's our last one in the country.

• 30:32Ant McPartlin?

  How are we all feeling about that?

• 30:34Speaker 04

  I've not processed it yet. Sad.

• 30:35Declan Donnelly?

  Not ready.

• 30:36Ant McPartlin?

  Processed it yet. That's such, that is such a daughter thing to say. I know you're not my daughter, but that's the kind of thing they say when they can't be bothered to give me a response.

• 30:45Declan Donnelly?

  Is that a Gen Z thing?

• 30:46Ant McPartlin?

  I haven't processed it yet. I mean, no, you've gotta give.

• 30:49Speaker 04

  Too sad.

• 30:50Ant McPartlin?

  Give over, whatever. That's, I can't process this right now. What, I've asked you to unload the dishwasher. I just can't, just can't process it.

• 31:00Ant McPartlin?

  Anyway.

• 31:00Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, so it's our last show here.

• 31:03Speaker 04

  Shall we do something big?

• 31:04Ant McPartlin?

  Let's do something big. Let's go out in style.

• 31:06Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 31:09Declan Donnelly?

  No pressure.

• 31:10Ant McPartlin?

  I'll leave it to you.

• 31:11Declan Donnelly?

  We'll be back on Thursday with our last show in the UK for 2020, what year is it? Six?

• 31:17Ant McPartlin?

  If you can process it.

• 31:18Declan Donnelly?

  Join us for that. Remember to give us a follow wherever you get your podcasts and of course.

• 31:23Ant McPartlin?

  Like, subscribe.

• 31:24Declan Donnelly?

  Subscribe on YouTube.

• 31:27Declan Donnelly?

  Thump things up. We'll see you on Thursday for the main show. Until then, respect us.

• 31:32Ant McPartlin?

  See you later. Nice job, my Meg.

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