The Bananaphone is Back: Ant’s Been Texting Bill Nighy & Dec Needs a Hobby

It’s Monday, and the yellow telephone is BACK with all your voice notes and burning questions for the boys! Join Ant & Dec as they reminisce about the Beckhams' party, discuss creating their 2002 World Cup song “We’re on the Ball,” and reveal all about shooting the movie Love Actually. We’ll be back on Thursday, but until then, keep your emails coming to [email protected] ---- 00:00 - It’s Voicenote Monday! 01:00 - The boys Love Actually Cameo 04:30 - Is Ant Jungle Jim? 07:30 - Ant & Dec’s Hobbies 10:05 - Future Ant & Dec 12:30 - Baboons, Leopards & Warthogs 14:55 - World Cup song: “We’re on the Ball” 18:40 - The Beckhams 2002 World Cup Party 20:00 - Ant & Dec’s School & Celeb Crushes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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• 0:01Speaker 00

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• 1:20Ant McPartlin?

  Hello again. Welcome to Hanging Out with me and him. And the hangout's ready for a hang.

• 1:27Declan Donnelly?

  Are you hanging out?

• 1:28Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, am I? No, I'm not.

• 1:31Declan Donnelly?

  He's not, he's not.

• 1:32Ant McPartlin?

  I'm hanging out, I'm ready for a hang.

• 1:34Declan Donnelly?

  Lovely to be with you once again for this bonus episode. Today, we spotted the big yellow telephone behind us.

• 1:42Ant McPartlin?

  The banana phone.

• 1:43Declan Donnelly?

  The banana phone.

• 1:44Ant McPartlin?

  The banana phone is back.

• 1:45Declan Donnelly?

  We're gonna bring this out. Sticker on the desk, because apparently we've got a tonne of voicemails to get through.

• 1:51Ant McPartlin?

  Have we?

• 1:52Declan Donnelly?

  Yes.

• 1:52Ant McPartlin?

  We're just straight into it, is it?

• 1:54Declan Donnelly?

  We've had loads of voicemails, thanks for all of those. Do keep them coming in, [email protected], for the next voicemail bonus ep.

• 2:03Ant McPartlin?

  Needs to be somewhere. Just getting straight into it, mate.

• 2:05Declan Donnelly?

  Well, I just thought there's no point...

• 2:06Ant McPartlin?

  Not even how you're doing.

• 2:07Declan Donnelly?

  How you doing, by the way?

• 2:08Ant McPartlin?

  I'm all right, let's get into it. Come on. First one.

• 2:12Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, you are, Devon, you're right.

• 2:13Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, here it is.

• 2:15Speaker 04

  Hi Ant and Dec, I'm Janine from Cardiff. I really enjoy watching your podcast. Anyway, every Christmas I watch Love Actually and every year I forget that you're both in it. So my questions are, how was it appearing in Love Actually? And have you done any other cameos in TVs or films? Thanks, bye.

• 2:36Ant McPartlin?

  Thank you, great question.

• 2:39Declan Donnelly?

  I can remember the night we filmed Love Actually.

• 2:43Ant McPartlin?

  Sorkenau.

• 2:44Declan Donnelly?

  Can you?

• 2:44Ant McPartlin?

  Yes, I can.

• 2:45Declan Donnelly?

  Because there was a very big football match on. Newcastle United were in the Champions League, playing against Feyenoord.

• 2:52Ant McPartlin?

  Feyenoord.

• 2:53Declan Donnelly?

  And it was an incredibly dramatic game and we won by scoring a goal in the last minute.

• 2:59Ant McPartlin?

  We were going to go to the game, we were going to go over to Holland.

• 3:01Declan Donnelly?

  And we got a call from Richard Curtis.

• 3:03Ant McPartlin?

  He said, "Do you want to be in this film?"

• 3:05Declan Donnelly?

  We went, "Mm, but there's a football match on."

• 3:07Ant McPartlin?

  And we were going to go to it and it's Champions League. Well, okay, I'll be in your movie.

• 3:11Declan Donnelly?

  So instead we hung out with Bill Nighy and shot all of our Love Actually bits on that night.

• 3:16Ant McPartlin?

  We did.

• 3:17Declan Donnelly?

  It was really good fun.

• 3:18Ant McPartlin?

  It was really good.

• 3:19Declan Donnelly?

  And Bill Nighy was the nicest man on earth, as you would imagine. He's lovely, isn't he?

• 3:24Ant McPartlin?

  He's a lovely man. I've spoke to him since being in there and...

• 3:28Declan Donnelly?

  What?

• 3:30Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, I've...

• 3:31Declan Donnelly?

  When have you been hanging out with Bill Nighy?

• 3:32Ant McPartlin?

  I've seen Bill Nighy a couple of times.

• 3:34Declan Donnelly?

  Where?

• 3:34Ant McPartlin?

  Just round and about, just different places and...

• 3:37Declan Donnelly?

  What kind of places?

• 3:38Ant McPartlin?

  Well, just, you know, coffee shops, whatever. And we've got...

• 3:42Declan Donnelly?

  What coffee shops? Whereabouts?

• 3:44Ant McPartlin?

  Just in town. And we've got each other's number and we text each other every now and again.

• 3:48Declan Donnelly?

  What?

• 3:49Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, I text Bill Nighy every now and again.

• 3:50Declan Donnelly?

  No, you do not.

• 3:51Ant McPartlin?

  I do.

• 3:51Declan Donnelly?

  No, you're just doing this to make me jealous.

• 3:53Ant McPartlin?

  Here we go. There we go. Okay.

• 3:56Declan Donnelly?

  Oh my God, he's got Bill Nighy's phone number and they've been texting.

• 4:02Speaker 05

  No, when was the last time you texted?

• 4:04Ant McPartlin?

  Ah, a year ago.

• 4:07Speaker 05

  What was the text?

• 4:09Ant McPartlin?

  I'm not telling you. It's private. It's private messages between me and Bill Nighy. Does that mean I've gone 2-1 up? Or do I need a photograph with Bill Nighy?

• 4:16Declan Donnelly?

  Do I?

• 4:16Ant McPartlin?

  You've just made those rules up.

• 4:18Declan Donnelly?

  You could, that could be anybody. You could have just changed the name.

• 4:20Ant McPartlin?

  Clearly it's not anybody. It's Bill Nighy.

• 4:22Declan Donnelly?

  That could be your mum and you've changed mum to Bill Nighy.

• 4:25Ant McPartlin?

  Well, my mum doesn't swear this much. Look at that message there.

• 4:30Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, yeah.

• 4:31Ant McPartlin?

  Exactly, Bill. We'll have to bleep that.

• 4:34Declan Donnelly?

  When you see him, does he, does he say hello, Ant or Deck?

• 4:38Ant McPartlin?

  No, he doesn't. But a lot of people do.

• 4:40Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, they do.

• 4:40Ant McPartlin?

  Don't they? A lot of people think they're very funny and that we haven't heard that before.

• 4:44Declan Donnelly?

  Does he, um, ask after me?

• 4:47Ant McPartlin?

  Yes, yes, he does. Yes, he does.

• 4:48Declan Donnelly?

  Does he?

• 4:49Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, of course he does.

• 4:49Declan Donnelly?

  Ah, that's nice. I knew he would.

• 4:52Ant McPartlin?

  Look how thrilled he genuinely truly is.

• 4:54Declan Donnelly?

  Really am.

• 4:54Ant McPartlin?

  Does he? Does he? Me? Look at all me. Yes, after me. Me!

• 4:59Declan Donnelly?

  I knew he would.

• 5:00Ant McPartlin?

  Me!

• 5:01Declan Donnelly?

  Because he's the loveliest man on earth.

• 5:03Ant McPartlin?

  He is. A very good actor and he was great. Actually, he was really good to be in the scenes with, wasn't he? Because he was just very generous and not like a stuck up actor. You can imagine that some actors, when two TV hosts have been cast in a movie, might be like, what? Really? But he was, he was the gent.

• 5:21Declan Donnelly?

  We did play the perfect parts in that, though.

• 5:23Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, we did.

• 5:24Declan Donnelly?

  TV hosts.

• 5:25Ant McPartlin?

  We did.

• 5:26Declan Donnelly?

  It was the roles we were born to play.

• 5:27Ant McPartlin?

  Played ourselves. And to be honest with you, I agree with what she says because I forget I'm in that movie. And it's on a Christmas and I'll sit down and watching it and then I'm like, oh God, yeah, I'm in this.

• 5:36Declan Donnelly?

  Every year, we get a flurry of text messages going.

• 5:39Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, we do.

• 5:39Declan Donnelly?

  Just watched Love Actually for the first time this year. Forgot you were in it. Got it every single year.

• 5:46Ant McPartlin?

  Well, we've done little bits in TV shows throughout the years.

• 5:49Declan Donnelly?

  Are you Jungle Jim?

• 5:51Ant McPartlin?

  Shut up. Shut up. Shut up. Shut up.

• 5:55Declan Donnelly?

  Are you Jungle Jim?

• 5:56Ant McPartlin?

  Shut up.

• 5:59Ant McPartlin?

  Shut up.

• 5:59Declan Donnelly?

  Are you Jungle Jim?

• 6:00Ant McPartlin?

  Shut up. Shut up, my Jungle Jim. That's all I'm saying. Because you lot will research it and Google it and, yes, I was Jungle Jim. Stop it. Stop it.

• 6:12Declan Donnelly?

  Free Jungle Jim.

• 6:12Ant McPartlin?

  Stop it. Lola, stop it. Stop it. You'll never find it. You'll never find it unless I give you more details, which I won't.

• 6:21Declan Donnelly?

  He's bought all rights to it and burned it.

• 6:23Ant McPartlin?

  No, I'm not going to tell you. I'm not going to tell you. You do the work.

• 6:26Declan Donnelly?

  We were together as, as PJ and Doug on another TV show and one of the hosts of the show came up to Ant and went. Are you Jungle Jim? I was like, what is this?

• 6:38Ant McPartlin?

  I was Jungle Jim, yeah. I played Jungle Jim in a Disney

• 6:43Ant McPartlin?

  little sketch show thing. Years and years ago. I'd left Bytogrove, but I'd spent all me money, so I needed to do so I needed to do any jobs I could to keep the lights on.

• 6:54Ant McPartlin?

  So yeah, I ended up playing, it was like Tarzan, but my character was Jungle Jim. So that's it. That's all I'm gonna tell you. You won't be able to find it now. This is a deep dive. I've erased it from the internet.

• 7:04Speaker 05

  Without Deck?

• 7:04Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 7:05Ant McPartlin?

  Without Deck, yeah. Deck was too busy doing Spender. Is it Spender?

• 7:10Declan Donnelly?

  Uh, no, it was the other one. Harry.

• 7:12Ant McPartlin?

  Harry, that was it.

• 7:13Declan Donnelly?

  I was Motorcycle Thug 2 in Harry.

• 7:16Ant McPartlin?

  You need to get my motor mind. Oh, don't get on your thug.

• 7:20Declan Donnelly?

  I did too. I did a couple of roles. I did Motorcycle Thug 2 in Harry, which was a North East based drama thing with Michael Elfick, who played a hard-nosed cop called Harry.

• 7:29Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 7:31Declan Donnelly?

  And I played Peter the Stable Boy in Catherine Cookson's The Cinder Path.

• 7:35Ant McPartlin?

  Stable Boy?

• 7:37Declan Donnelly?

  Where I had two lines.

• 7:38Ant McPartlin?

  Go on.

• 7:39Declan Donnelly?

  One was,

• 7:41Declan Donnelly?

  "What's going on, Mr. Charlie?"

• 7:43Ant McPartlin?

  That's good.

• 7:44Declan Donnelly?

  And another one, hmm, I don't know, I think I had one like.

• 7:48Ant McPartlin?

  Did you have a line as Motorcycle Thug in Harry?

• 7:51Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, I did, but I can't remember that.

• 7:52Ant McPartlin?

  Right.

• 7:53Declan Donnelly?

  I did say something.

• 7:54Ant McPartlin?

  I was also in, which you've seen, I was in Why Don't You? The kids TV show. And they used to do different gangs every year. Like you'd have like the Liverpool gang, the Cardiff gang. And one and only year they'd done a Newcastle gang. And that was my first ever job in Telly, was Why Don't You? And it was fun. Got paid nothing. I got a free Johnny Hitch Jazz CD and a jacket. That was my payment for doing, I swear to God, that was it. They give every cast member a CD and you're allowed to wear the clothes that you wore for filming. You're allowed to keep the clothes.

• 8:27Declan Donnelly?

  Was it a shell suit or?

• 8:28Ant McPartlin?

  No, it was like a ski jacket.

• 8:30Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, like a capri?

• 8:31Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was like that.

• 8:33Speaker 05

  Still got it?

• 8:34Ant McPartlin?

  Uh, no, I don't have it. Thank you.

• 8:36Declan Donnelly?

  Not in your memorabilia box?

• 8:37Ant McPartlin?

  No, I give it a deck fit in.

• 8:41Declan Donnelly?

  Okay, let's move straight on.

• 8:41Ant McPartlin?

  Oh yeah, well we've already had one voice note, come on. Let's have another voice note.

• 8:45Declan Donnelly?

  Let's have another voice note.

• 8:47Speaker 06

  Hi Ant and Dec, it's Maddie from Essex.

• 8:49Ant McPartlin?

  Hi Maddie from Essex.

• 8:49Speaker 06

  So last year, I realised that I had no hobbies aside from working, lol. So I started to play paddle, just like every other person on planet Earth. And I was wondering, do you guys have any hobbies that you do away from work?

• 9:03Declan Donnelly?

  Thanks Maddie.

• 9:03Ant McPartlin?

  Thanks Maddie, good question.

• 9:04Declan Donnelly?

  I like the sound of Maddie.

• 9:05Ant McPartlin?

  I do.

• 9:06Declan Donnelly?

  Lol.

• 9:06Ant McPartlin?

  Lol.

• 9:10Ant McPartlin?

  Lol, yeah we do, we like golf. We've said it before on this podcast, we love golf, we love everything about it. We've got Little Society that we play golf with, and we've been playing golf with for 20 years, like 22 years. And we golf in Portugal, we've golfed in Dubai, we've golfed in Vegas.

• 9:29Declan Donnelly?

  You name it.

• 9:30Ant McPartlin?

  We've golfed it.

• 9:31Declan Donnelly?

  Not quite.

• 9:32Ant McPartlin?

  Do you do anything I don't know about?

• 9:35Declan Donnelly?

  Don't think so, do I have any other hobbies?

• 9:36Ant McPartlin?

  Do you play paddle?

• 9:38Declan Donnelly?

  No, I'd love to play paddle, just never gotten round to it.

• 9:40Ant McPartlin?

  No, I've tried it, it is fun, have you tried it?

• 9:43Declan Donnelly?

  No.

• 9:44Ant McPartlin?

  You've never been on the court?

• 9:44Declan Donnelly?

  No. Pickleball?

• 9:46Ant McPartlin?

  Hmm, what do you call it?

• 9:48Declan Donnelly?

  Pickleball? That's another thing, isn't it?

• 9:50Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, yeah, it's very, it's very American pickleball, is it? I think so.

• 9:54Declan Donnelly?

  Is that not the same as paddle?

• 9:55Ant McPartlin?

  Nah, pickleball is a smaller ball with holes in. I think it's like tennis, but slower. Pickleball, am I right?

• 10:03Speaker 06

  It's like tennis for babies, I think.

• 10:05Ant McPartlin?

  Tennis for babies, or for older people, so you'd be great at it.

• 10:07Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, I don't want to.

• 10:10Declan Donnelly?

  I don't quite know which category you're putting me in there.

• 10:14Declan Donnelly?

  Babies or older people?

• 10:18Declan Donnelly?

  I straddle ball.

• 10:19Ant McPartlin?

  Oh come on, blimey, governor.

• 10:28Ant McPartlin?

  Oh god, we need a holiday, we need a holiday.

• 10:31Declan Donnelly?

  Is there any other hobbies? I don't think I do have, I'm trying to choose this subject.

• 10:39Declan Donnelly?

  Any other hobbies? I like the odd jigsaw.

• 10:45Ant McPartlin?

  Oh God.

• 10:49Ant McPartlin?

  Let's get this over with. Go on. Any other hobbies?

• 10:52Declan Donnelly?

  Any other hobbies? No, none to report.

• 10:54Ant McPartlin?

  No, I did rock climbing for a while.

• 10:57Declan Donnelly?

  Did you?

• 10:57Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, I was into it, really into it.

• 10:59Declan Donnelly?

  Indoor rock climbing?

• 11:00Ant McPartlin?

  Indoor rock climbing. Yeah, not outdoor. I even got, I got quite good at it. It got me on rock climbing shoes.

• 11:05Declan Donnelly?

  Just you. It's not like you took to buy all of the equipment.

• 11:08Ant McPartlin?

  And then after that, I fell out of love with it.

• 11:09Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, funny that.

• 11:10Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 11:11Declan Donnelly?

  No, I haven't done that.

• 11:12Ant McPartlin?

  We need to get you out more.

• 11:14Declan Donnelly?

  I like it. I like a jigsaw.

• 11:16Ant McPartlin?

  Any suggestions for hobbies that you think Deck would like, then please send them in. Hangingoutabelltobox.com.

• 11:21Declan Donnelly?

  Let's have another voice.

• 11:22Ant McPartlin?

  Okay.

• 11:23Speaker 07

  Absolutely love the podcast. My question is, do you ever wonder what you're going to do, like when you get old? As in, old, old. Do you think you'll still be like going like you are now and be kind of Bruce Forsyth style? Where, you know, you're, you're literally still on TV till you're almost dead? Or do you think like you'll kind of know when to, enough is enough? And so what do you plan on doing with retirement?

• 11:52Ant McPartlin?

  Well, you're either eating a sweet, you know, eating a sweet whilst we're calling it that, or unfolding a large bit of paper.

• 11:59Declan Donnelly?

  I don't see myself still doing what we're doing when I'm like 80.

• 12:04Ant McPartlin?

  You don't?

• 12:05Declan Donnelly?

  No, in, in, what was that now? In 50 years' time? 30 years' time.

• 12:11Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, go on.

• 12:12Declan Donnelly?

  No, I don't, I don't.

• 12:13Ant McPartlin?

  Don't be retired by then.

• 12:14Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, I think so.

• 12:15Ant McPartlin?

  With the grandkids.

• 12:16Declan Donnelly?

  Playing golf.

• 12:16Ant McPartlin?

  Playing golf.

• 12:17Declan Donnelly?

  In the sun.

• 12:18Ant McPartlin?

  Do you think she would like us to stop?

• 12:20Declan Donnelly?

  That's the vibe I got.

• 12:21Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, that's the vibe I got. She's a bit annoyed that we're still doing it.

• 12:23Declan Donnelly?

  It was almost like, hi guys, how much longer is this going on for?

• 12:28Ant McPartlin?

  It was. Yeah, it was that. So for that, I'm going to continue till I'm 93.

• 12:33Declan Donnelly?

  Do you know the lovely thing for us is that kind of our career has just taken twists and turns all the way. So you never know what's going to come next. You never.

• 12:41Ant McPartlin?

  I never thought we'd be doing a podcast.

• 12:43Declan Donnelly?

  No.

• 12:43Ant McPartlin?

  Did you?

• 12:43Declan Donnelly?

  No, absolutely not. It's just, that just came out of the blue and yeah, so we never quite know what we're going to do next. Never mind what we're going to be doing in 10, 20.

• 12:53Ant McPartlin?

  30 years, so.

• 12:56Declan Donnelly?

  Watch this space.

• 12:57Ant McPartlin?

  Maureen. What's she called, Maureen? Sounds like a Maureen.

• 13:00Speaker 05

  Katie.

• 13:01Ant McPartlin?

  Katie. Watch this space, Katie.

• 13:04Declan Donnelly?

  So already losing his memory.

• 13:06Ant McPartlin?

  All right, here's the next one. Hello, Anne and Deck. This is Jane from Austin, Texas. I have a question for you. I see there's a show coming on.

• 13:14Declan Donnelly?

  Celebrity get me out here in Africa. So my question is, which one of you is the fastest runner from those animals? Oh, Jane, in Austin, Texas. She's, I'll reach, we've reached Austin, Texas.

• 13:27Ant McPartlin?

  Austin, Texas.

• 13:28Declan Donnelly?

  Who's the fastest runner from the animals and I'm a celebrity South Africa? Well, Jane, thankfully for us, we have a very fancy hotel where we don't need to run from the animals.

• 13:37Ant McPartlin?

  No, we don't, thank goodness.

• 13:38Declan Donnelly?

  We're pretty good. We stay in like a nature reserve out there.

• 13:41Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, we do. It's beautiful.

• 13:43Declan Donnelly?

  The first time we went to South Africa to film the show, they put us in our lodges to, you know, settle in and unpack. They said, so, you know, these are your patio doors. You've got a little swimming pool out there. Make sure you keep your patio doors closed because the baboons will come round and let themselves in if you leave your doors unlocked.

• 13:59Ant McPartlin?

  Let themselves in?

• 14:01Declan Donnelly?

  And they said, there is a walking trail. You can go walk in or go for a jog, but make sure you're back before dusk because if you're out there, the leopard will think you're, it's dinner. So I was like, I stayed in.

• 14:14Ant McPartlin?

  No walking, no jogging, no running.

• 14:16Declan Donnelly?

  I went for one swim in my pool. There was a little plunge pool outside. I went for one swim and I heard something rustling in the trees. Out, dry, in, closed door, lock, curtains closed.

• 14:28Ant McPartlin?

  Lights off. When I went out there for the first, I was like, oh my God, this is beautiful. Opened the doors, walked out and I heard

• 14:37Ant McPartlin?

  warthog. Really, really wonderful. So I forget your question.

• 14:40Declan Donnelly?

  Who's the fastest runner from the animals?

• 14:42Ant McPartlin?

  So as in us two?

• 14:43Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 14:44Ant McPartlin?

  Who would run the fastest?

• 14:45Declan Donnelly?

  Well, I think you look more meaty, so they would go for you.

• 14:48Ant McPartlin?

  Meaty? I don't look meaty.

• 14:49Declan Donnelly?

  Well, you know what I mean? You've got, you know.

• 14:52Ant McPartlin?

  What do you think? What, they just leave you behind?

• 14:54Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, I think I look a bit unsatisfying.

• 14:58Ant McPartlin?

  I'm a larger bite, am I?

• 15:00Declan Donnelly?

  They'll go, go for the big one. And that gives me a clear run.

• 15:03Ant McPartlin?

  I see.

• 15:03Declan Donnelly?

  We've done Australia so many times now that we're kind of used to the wildlife.

• 15:06Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, we are used to the wildlife, used to the snakes, used to the spiders.

• 15:09Declan Donnelly?

  In South Africa, it's a different story. We're not used to all of that.

• 15:12Ant McPartlin?

  When you film the show, down where the trials are, the baboons are wild, aren't they? They're just.

• 15:17Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, they're crazy.

• 15:18Ant McPartlin?

  They're crazy. They just make a little noise and it sounds like people shouting. It's like, oh, ah, ah, oh, oh, ah, ah. The first time you, it is the first time you hear it, you're like.

• 15:27Declan Donnelly?

  What is it again?

• 15:28Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, ah, oh, ah, oh, ah. So it's really scary. You think it's people having an argument, but it's the baboons. And we were doing a trial the first time we did South Africa. And it was, we had a load of rotten fruit and veg, which was part of the trial. That must smell amazing to the baboons.

• 15:45Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 15:45Ant McPartlin?

  And they got closer and closer, this family baboons, to the trial when we were filming it. And they all sat on the rocks, just like watching, licking lips. So we're like, let's get this trial and get out of here and leave them with their peelings.

• 15:57Declan Donnelly?

  I don't know if it was the rotten fruit and veg, or Paul Burrow does look quite tasty as well.

• 16:01Ant McPartlin?

  He looks tasty. Yeah, he looks tasty. Two baboon.

• 16:03Declan Donnelly?

  He's a tasty morsel.

• 16:04Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, that's like a succulent pig.

• 16:09Declan Donnelly?

  Let's have another voice note.

• 16:10Speaker 06

  Hi, Ant and Dec, Amy here.

• 16:12Ant McPartlin?

  Hi, Amy.

• 16:12Speaker 06

  Thanks to Spotify, they've been recommending some Ant and Dec music.

• 16:16Declan Donnelly?

  Ooh.

• 16:17Speaker 06

  From back in the day.

• 16:18Declan Donnelly?

  Sorry.

• 16:18Speaker 06

  I'm a 94 baby, so I was probably a bit too young to remember all the music.

• 16:23Declan Donnelly?

  You were, baby.

• 16:24Speaker 06

  I do remember We're on the Ball, the legendary football song you released. I'd love to know how that came about. Did you get any input in writing the song? Um, and making the video? And, um, did you see yourselves being up there with the likes of The Lightning Seeds and Baddiel and Skinner? I obviously remember, uh, Ant dressing up as Svengor and Erickson on SMTV quite a few times. Lots of love. Bye.

• 16:51Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, thank you.

• 16:52Ant McPartlin?

  Thanks, Amy. Good question. Uh, yes, we did hope that we would be the next Baddiel and Skinner, but no, we didn't really.

• 16:59Declan Donnelly?

  Didn't quite reach those.

• 17:01Ant McPartlin?

  Hasn't really hung around as, as, uh, as long as it's coming home.

• 17:04Declan Donnelly?

  I'll tell you how it came about. Um, we got a phone call from Sony Records back in 2001, 2002. And they said, uh, we need to do a World Cup record for the Japan.

• 17:16Ant McPartlin?

  Or two.

• 17:17Declan Donnelly?

  Japan or two.

• 17:18Ant McPartlin?

  2002.

• 17:19Declan Donnelly?

  Um, the World Cup in 2002. Um, we've got the record, we know what the song is, it's gonna be We're on the Ball. Will you guys record it? I'm like, yeah, okay, that could be a laugh. And they're like, we'll, we'll get you some free tickets to the World Cup, which we still never got.

• 17:33Ant McPartlin?

  No, we didn't get it.

• 17:33Declan Donnelly?

  We never went.

• 17:34Ant McPartlin?

  No, we never.

• 17:34Declan Donnelly?

  So we thought, oh, the song's already done, that's easy, we'll just, we'll just do that. And then we turn up and they went, oh, actually, yeah, there are no lyrics to the song. All we've got is we're on the ball, we're on the ball. So you need to write the verses. We took a morning, didn't we, round at my house?

• 17:47Ant McPartlin?

  We did.

• 17:48Declan Donnelly?

  And put the song on and just wrote the, wrote the two verses and the, and the bits. So we wrote the verses.

• 17:53Ant McPartlin?

  So the first were like from Neville to Heskey, Heskey this goes. And then we kind of just went through the players who were in the squad at the time. But by the time the record came out, a few of the players weren't in the squad anymore. And they didn't make the World Cup, did they?

• 18:07Declan Donnelly?

  No, I don't think they did.

• 18:08Ant McPartlin?

  That was a shame. And it's not really a song that's repeatable because it's very of that time.

• 18:13Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 18:14Ant McPartlin?

  Which we should have thought about.

• 18:15Declan Donnelly?

  We should, we should update it for the World Cup this summer.

• 18:17Ant McPartlin?

  Do you think?

• 18:18Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah. Do you think we should do that?

• 18:19Ant McPartlin?

  Put new lyrics in there, put new players in there.

• 18:21Declan Donnelly?

  New players in there.

• 18:22Ant McPartlin?

  Just Newcastle players.

• 18:23Declan Donnelly?

  Could do. Plenty of them in the squad.

• 18:25Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, there is.

• 18:25Declan Donnelly?

  Um, yeah, let's, maybe we'll update that. Let me tell you about the video shoot. Right. They said, we're taking you up to Leeds because England are playing a friendly up in Leeds. And all the squad are there. So you're going to make the video and you've got all the squad.

• 18:40Ant McPartlin?

  So you'll be able to mess about with the squad. They'll get involved. They'll, they'll definitely want to be involved in the video. So come on, we'll shoot it.

• 18:47Declan Donnelly?

  So we went up and saw the squad from about 300 metres away. Never met any of them.

• 18:53Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 18:54Declan Donnelly?

  Didn't get time with any of them.

• 18:55Ant McPartlin?

  Not one of them wanted to be in the video.

• 18:57Declan Donnelly?

  So the idea was that we were going to kidnap Svengorin Eriksson and his assistant, Todd Grip, and take their place to infiltrate the, the team so we could go to the World Cup in Japan. So we do a scene in there where we're doing tactics to the team and it was supposed to be the team, but we couldn't get any of the team. So we had to dress up as the team. So I ended up dressing as David Beckham.

• 19:17Ant McPartlin?

  I was semen.

• 19:18Declan Donnelly?

  David semen with a long ponytail.

• 19:20Ant McPartlin?

  I like that. That's good.

• 19:21Declan Donnelly?

  We dressed up as members of the, and we were just doing this on the hoof like, we haven't got any players in this video. We're going to have to dress up as them.

• 19:27Speaker 05

  It's quite fun though, dressing up as them.

• 19:29Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, it's quite dressable too.

• 19:30Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah. And also not what we hoped. We hoped we'd meet the players and have a laugh with the players, but they wouldn't, they didn't want to play a ball. Misurable.

• 19:38Declan Donnelly?

  Well, they did want to play a ball. That's all they wanted to do was play a ball. Not play with us.

• 19:44Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah. But look, that's another thing, like talking about our career. Who would have thought we would ever have released an official World Cup song?

• 19:51Declan Donnelly?

  I know.

• 19:52Ant McPartlin?

  You know?

• 19:52Declan Donnelly?

  That just again came out of the blue. You never quite know what's going to happen. And because we did the World Cup song, we got invited to the Beckham's World Cup party.

• 20:02Ant McPartlin?

  Japanese themed woke up party. David was there with Victoria shaking your hands and Elton John was there.

• 20:07Declan Donnelly?

  Yes.

• 20:07Ant McPartlin?

  Wasn't he on the entrance, went to his truck our hands. And it was massive, like a massive hall of, you know, free course dinner and David got up and as he was the captain at the time, so he got up and spoke.

• 20:18Declan Donnelly?

  We were on a table with Boy George.

• 20:20Ant McPartlin?

  Yes.

• 20:21Declan Donnelly?

  And his friend, a guy called Philip Salon.

• 20:23Ant McPartlin?

  Philip Salon, that was it.

• 20:25Declan Donnelly?

  And.

• 20:25Ant McPartlin?

  Who had the funniest haircut ever.

• 20:28Declan Donnelly?

  Well, it wasn't a haircut.

• 20:29Ant McPartlin?

  Wasn't a haircut.

• 20:29Declan Donnelly?

  He was, he was completely bald, but on his head, in his, in his little bag, so they were dressed really flamboyantly. In his bag, he had a can of shaving foam and he did a big Mr. Whippy on his head.

• 20:42Ant McPartlin?

  He did, that was, that was his hairdo.

• 20:43Declan Donnelly?

  That was his hairdo. So then we'd have like, we were sitting there having starter and you could see it starting kind of slide and then depress a bit. So after every course, he went to the toilet and redid it and came back for the, for another course.

• 20:55Ant McPartlin?

  Brilliant, eh? That is commitment.

• 20:57Declan Donnelly?

  But it was brilliant.

• 20:59Ant McPartlin?

  He looked fantastic, I have to say. I'm gonna try that one day. Maybe next week. I can't believe I'm gonna do me hair.

• 21:08Declan Donnelly?

  And then I'll have to grow a beard because my shaving foam will have gone.

• 21:11Ant McPartlin?

  Let's have one more, come on.

• 21:12Declan Donnelly?

  Time for one more. Here we go, last one. Hello, I would like to ask a question for both Ant and Dec. Do either of them remember who their first school crush was on? And how old were they at the time? Thank you for your question. Who is that?

• 21:31Speaker 05

  Mr. Frank.

• 21:33Declan Donnelly?

  Hello, Mr. Frank.

• 21:34Ant McPartlin?

  Thank you, Mr. Frank.

• 21:35Declan Donnelly?

  First school crush and who was it on?

• 21:38Ant McPartlin?

  Well, I'm not gonna name names because it's unfair to the person, but I was in primary school. Remember it. And there was a girl who I had a real crush on. Uh, so I must have been, that's before we went to big schools, I must have been like nine, eight, nine. And I remember I had a little red skateboard like Bart Simpson.

• 22:01Declan Donnelly?

  Cowabunga!

• 22:03Ant McPartlin?

  And I remember skateboarding from my house.

• 22:05Declan Donnelly?

  To show off.

• 22:06Ant McPartlin?

  I found out, no, no, I just found out where she lived. So I skateboarded all the way from my house, all the way. She lived near the school and I lived a little bit away from my primary school.

• 22:14Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 22:15Ant McPartlin?

  So I skateboarded all the way along as a nine year old, skateboarded like, it was, there was a slight gradient to the hill.

• 22:21Declan Donnelly?

  Oh.

• 22:22Ant McPartlin?

  So my legs were burning by the time I got there and hand delivered.

• 22:25Declan Donnelly?

  Valentine's.

• 22:25Ant McPartlin?

  Valentine's Day cards.

• 22:28Ant McPartlin?

  I know.

• 22:28Speaker 05

  How did she respond?

• 22:29Ant McPartlin?

  She loved it. And then she came around to mind to play with my science kit. The following week. Nice cute, eh?

• 22:39Declan Donnelly?

  That's very cute. My first school crush, I think, was on a teacher.

• 22:44Ant McPartlin?

  Was it?

• 22:44Declan Donnelly?

  Yes.

• 22:45Ant McPartlin?

  What was he called?

• 22:45Declan Donnelly?

  Mr Frank.

• 22:48Declan Donnelly?

  No, it was on my primary school teacher.

• 22:50Ant McPartlin?

  Uh huh.

• 22:50Declan Donnelly?

  And she had big blonde curly hair. Right up my street. Even as a six year old, five, six, seven year old. And she was lovely and kind and lovely. And I was like, oh, I had a bit of a crush. I had a real soft spot for mine.

• 23:05Ant McPartlin?

  Did you ever write in your book like, I heart?

• 23:08Declan Donnelly?

  No.

• 23:09Ant McPartlin?

  Her name?

• 23:09Declan Donnelly?

  No, I didn't.

• 23:10Ant McPartlin?

  No, did she ever notice you crushing on her?

• 23:12Declan Donnelly?

  I think so, yeah.

• 23:13Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 23:13Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah. I was a bit of a teacher's pet.

• 23:15Ant McPartlin?

  Were you?

• 23:16Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 23:16Ant McPartlin?

  Still is, isn't he? He's like, he is, he is.

• 23:21Declan Donnelly?

  Why are you nodding that? I smashed your face in in a minute.

• 23:24Speaker 05

  What about celeb crushes when you were younger?

• 23:27Declan Donnelly?

  Toy ball. Hello.

• 23:30Ant McPartlin?

  Um, I tell you who had a big crush on in Adventures in Babysitting.

• 23:35Declan Donnelly?

  Oh.

• 23:36Ant McPartlin?

  And Crotty Kid, Elizabeth Shue.

• 23:38Declan Donnelly?

  Yes.

• 23:39Ant McPartlin?

  Oh.

• 23:41Ant McPartlin?

  And there's a movie called Weird Science, which was out when we were growing up. And Kelly Le Brock was the pin up in it. She was, she was also stunning. They were my two childhood crushes. Yours?

• 23:51Declan Donnelly?

  Um.

• 23:52Ant McPartlin?

  Apart from teachers?

• 23:53Declan Donnelly?

  Glynnis Barber in Dempsey and Makepeace.

• 23:55Ant McPartlin?

  Oh yeah, that's a good one. Mm hmm.

• 23:57Declan Donnelly?

  Do you remember a band called Transvision Vamp?

• 23:58Ant McPartlin?

  Yes.

• 23:59Declan Donnelly?

  Wendy James.

• 24:00Ant McPartlin?

  Yes. Hello.

• 24:03Declan Donnelly?

  Hello.

• 24:05Ant McPartlin?

  We should do it for all of them, actually. We've, we've got Elizabeth Shue.

• 24:09Declan Donnelly?

  Hello.

• 24:11Ant McPartlin?

  Kelly Le Brock.

• 24:11Declan Donnelly?

  Hello. Mr Frank.

• 24:14Ant McPartlin?

  Hello.

• 24:15Declan Donnelly?

  Mr Frank, what are you doing here?

• 24:16Ant McPartlin?

  What are you doing here, Mr Frank?

• 24:17Declan Donnelly?

  Get out of my thoughts, Mr Frank.

• 24:23Declan Donnelly?

  They've all gone.

• 24:24Ant McPartlin?

  Oh.

• 24:25Declan Donnelly?

  They're done.

• 24:25Ant McPartlin?

  That's goodbye.

• 24:28Declan Donnelly?

  Thanks for all your voice notes. Keep them coming in for our next Voice Note Special. Hang it out at beltabox.com.

• 24:34Ant McPartlin?

  Love that. I always like that, yeah.

• 24:36Declan Donnelly?

  I love the voice notes.

• 24:36Ant McPartlin?

  It's good. We don't do a lot. We're just listening to you guys. I love it.

• 24:39Declan Donnelly?

  We'll be back on Thursday.

• 24:40Ant McPartlin?

  Follow me on Pod. See you then.

• 24:42Declan Donnelly?

  But until then.

• 24:43Ant McPartlin?

  Respect, guys.

• 24:44Declan Donnelly?

  Respect, guys.

• 24:44Ant McPartlin?

  See you later.

• 24:45Declan Donnelly?

  See you later.

• 24:49Ant McPartlin?

  Do that for your lights. Bye, love stuff.

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