Ant's Onstage Stumbles & Dec's Fridge Dilemma

The boys are back in Blackpool for this week’s bonus episode reading your postcards! We see just how different Ant and Dec truly are as they discuss which foods go in the fridge and which in the cupboard, Ant shares what it felt like to fall over on stage on live TV and a Dec doppleganger has been spotted! As always, keep your correspondence coming 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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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• 1:31Ant McPartlin?

  Ah, thank you.

• 1:32Declan Donnelly?

  What did you get?

• 1:34Ant McPartlin?

  Got us some delivery, since we're in Blackpool.

• 1:37Declan Donnelly?

  Beaver tails.

• 1:41Ant McPartlin?

  Well, I didn't expect that response.

• 1:43Declan Donnelly?

  Not a massive fan of donuts.

• 1:44Ant McPartlin?

  Are you joking?

• 1:45Declan Donnelly?

  Is it a jam donut?

• 1:46Ant McPartlin?

  No, it's a ring, it's a ring donut. How do they put jam in that? There's a big gap in the middle.

• 1:51Declan Donnelly?

  I didn't see it, did I? He showed us it by the side. Hmm, no.

• 1:56Ant McPartlin?

  No, they're all rings, look.

• 1:59Ant McPartlin?

  That's four. Four rings.

• 2:01Declan Donnelly?

  Can you do it without licking your lips?

• 2:04Ant McPartlin?

  Mm-hmm.

• 2:05Declan Donnelly?

  I think you can.

• 2:06Ant McPartlin?

  Well, I can.

• 2:08Declan Donnelly?

  I'm not really a fan of donuts. The nose is a bit where you want to lick, isn't it?

• 2:12Ant McPartlin?

  Mm-hmm. Yeah, it is.

• 2:14Declan Donnelly?

  Keep it in your, keep it in your mouth.

• 2:16Ant McPartlin?

  Mm-hmm. Well, go, go back again.

• 2:18Declan Donnelly?

  Mm-hmm.

• 2:20Ant McPartlin?

  Mmm.

• 2:21Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, I can't bear it.

• 2:22Ant McPartlin?

  Can't bear what?

• 2:23Declan Donnelly?

  I've got to lick.

• 2:24Ant McPartlin?

  Mm. Ah!

• 2:29Ant McPartlin?

  Can't have it, can you?

• 2:30Declan Donnelly?

  Can't have it.

• 2:31Ant McPartlin?

  They're good. Mmm.

• 2:34Declan Donnelly?

  I'm not a big fan.

• 2:35Ant McPartlin?

  Thanks very much for my donuts. Hi, everyone. I presume we've started.

• 2:38Declan Donnelly?

  Are we, are we rolling?

• 2:40Ant McPartlin?

  Welcome to...

• 2:41Declan Donnelly?

  Moment on the lips. Lifetime on the hips.

• 2:44Ant McPartlin?

  Welcome to hanging out on tour again. Back in Blackpool, still in Blackpool, doing BGT. It's going well, isn't it?

• 2:51Declan Donnelly?

  Going really well.

• 2:52Ant McPartlin?

  Love it, man. Bloody love it.

• 2:54Declan Donnelly?

  I'm having a lot of fun.

• 2:55Speaker 03

  Can you tell us about what happens when you get a golden buzzer?

• 2:57Ant McPartlin?

  What happens when you get a golden buzzer?

• 2:59Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 3:00Ant McPartlin?

  So, well, when we, whoever presses the golden buzzer, us or the judges, they act guest the golden buzzer, confetti goes off.

• 3:08Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 3:09Ant McPartlin?

  Normally, if it's a judge, they'll join them on stage. And if it's us, we'll run out and celebrate with them. And then they'll come to the side of the stage, we chat to them, and there's always a lot of chaos going on. Then they're obviously overjoyed and bewildered by the whole process, moment, and then they walk off very happy. Then, there's like a 15 to 20 minute reset, because the confetti goes everywhere.

• 3:36Declan Donnelly?

  So they come out with huge leaf blowers and suckers, and they suck all the confetti up, and then the thing comes down and they have to refill more confetti in case there's another golden buzzer next?

• 3:46Ant McPartlin?

  So the interesting thing is, we're really overjoyed when there's a golden buzzer, because it's great for the show, great for the act, the audience love it, the judges love it, we love it, the crew are like, "Oh, the golden buzzer's gone off. Get the leaf blowers out." Yeah. Yeah, so it takes a little while.

• 4:03Speaker 03

  That must be nerve-wracking if you're after a golden buzzer.

• 4:05Ant McPartlin?

  It's tough, and you can hear a golden buzzer, you can hear the celebration. So if you're the next act, you're a bit like, "Oh." But wait, it has been known where we've had one after another.

• 4:15Speaker 03

  Really?

• 4:16Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, it's very, very, very rare.

• 4:17Ant McPartlin?

  Very rare, but it can happen.

• 4:18Declan Donnelly?

  So you know that if you're the next act, you're like, "Oh, man."

• 4:22Ant McPartlin?

  Got to pull out the bag here.

• 4:23Declan Donnelly?

  The process of giving the golden buzzer is a funny one, isn't it? Because you're there in the wings, and like every act that's ever appeared on Britain's Got Talent, we see it from the side for the first time.

• 4:36Ant McPartlin?

  We've never done full frontal in BGT. We haven't.

• 4:41Declan Donnelly?

  So we kind of look at each other when the act's midway, and we kind of go, "Good, aren't they?"

• 4:48Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, good. Should we?

• 4:50Declan Donnelly?

  Could they be?

• 4:51Ant McPartlin?

  Could they, yeah.

• 4:52Declan Donnelly?

  Could they?

• 4:53Ant McPartlin?

  Do you think?

• 4:54Declan Donnelly?

  Do you reckon?

• 4:55Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, I think so, yeah.

• 4:56Declan Donnelly?

  Could be.

• 4:57Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, we should.

• 4:58Declan Donnelly?

  Should we?

• 4:59Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, we should, yeah.

• 5:00Declan Donnelly?

  And we've got our producer in the wings as well, and we go, "We're thinking about it."

• 5:02Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 5:03Declan Donnelly?

  "We're thinking about it." He gets on the walkie-talkie to the producers out the front, saying, "They're thinking about it, they're thinking about it."

• 5:06Ant McPartlin?

  So to make sure that the cameras are ready in case we do. A lot of times, we just think about it and don't do it.

• 5:10Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, we do.

• 5:11Ant McPartlin?

  It's just true.

• 5:12Declan Donnelly?

  We've done that here in Blackpool. A couple of times, we've looked at it, and we go, "Could be, you know? What do you reckon? Could be, could be."

• 5:18Ant McPartlin?

  So we go, "We're thinking about it." And you see them go like this, "They're thinking about it." And we go, "We're not going to."

• 5:23Declan Donnelly?

  And then it's about picking the time to do it, because you either let it get to the end of the act before the critiques have started, and then we run out and do it, or more often than not, we will let the judges chat first and kind of go, "That was amazing, that was fantastic." And the audience sometimes are going, "Push the gold, press the gold." So you kind of let that moment build and build and build, and you get through the judges' critiques, and then they go, "Right, well, we have to vote." And then we'll go, "No, you don't, because we're going to come and hit the golden buzzer."

• 5:54Ant McPartlin?

  Or we go early, because we believe one of the judges is going to press the golden buzzer, which we've thought before, Simon's got to do it before, we've got in there before.

• 6:02Declan Donnelly?

  When we hit the golden buzzer, all the judges go, "Oh, good one, well done, that was a really good one, I'm glad you hit the golden buzzer for them." And then you go along the line, and Simon goes, "Oh, I hate you, that's a really good buzzer, I wanted to do that."

• 6:14Ant McPartlin?

  Well done, God.

• 6:15Declan Donnelly?

  "Well done, I hate you." That's normally what he says.

• 6:19Speaker 03

  When you fell over?

• 6:20Ant McPartlin?

  Yes.

• 6:21Speaker 03

  That's just one of my favorite clips I've ever seen.

• 6:23Declan Donnelly?

  On the, on the first live semi-final?

• 6:25Ant McPartlin?

  It was the first episode of the live semi-finals a couple of years ago, and we were coming from the back of the audience.

• 6:34Declan Donnelly?

  We normally do a big routine for the first semi-final back with dancers and the guest artists and some of the acts and whatever, so it's a big kind of...

• 6:42Ant McPartlin?

  To make our way through the crowd. And you've got to get into the middle of the stage, you've got to meet in the middle of the stage.

• 6:49Declan Donnelly?

  By the end of the music.

• 6:50Ant McPartlin?

  By the end of the music, sort of like, "Da-da, we're there," right? And I obviously got held up a little bit on my way in.

• 6:56Declan Donnelly?

  And diversity were up on stage as well, weren't they?

• 6:59Ant McPartlin?

  High five.

• 7:00Declan Donnelly?

  Diversity were right in the middle of the stage, and we had to get in either side of Ashley Banjo for the big finish at the end.

• 7:05Ant McPartlin?

  So I was, I looked at Dex, so I clocked Dex, and I thought, "Oh, he's ahead of me."

• 7:10Declan Donnelly?

  And we rehearse it as well, sorry to jump in, but we rehearse it as well in the afternoons.

• 7:14Ant McPartlin?

  Used to it.

• 7:15Declan Donnelly?

  We rehearse it in the afternoons with no audience in. So you can get straight through the auditorium, you get your timings, but suddenly, when you had 3,000 people in there at the show, and there's dancers, and there's cameras, and everything else, you're trying to get through the auditorium, and it's, it's not always a straight route.

• 7:33Ant McPartlin?

  People kind of block you, block your route, and maybe, maybe I don't want selfie too many on the way down, who knows, probably. Anyway, I was going down, and I looked, I was just got them up on the stairs, and I thought, "He's Dex up there already, at the top of the stairs, on stage?" So I didn't get a move on here. So I ran up the stairs and ran onto the stage, and then as I went to stop, my shoes, my dress shoes, that I wore in my suit...

• 7:56Declan Donnelly?

  Sunder shoes.

• 7:57Ant McPartlin?

  Were really slippy, and they had no grip, so my feet went up, and I could feel my whole legs got up like this. I went up that, and I landed square in my back, and it really hurt. And it took the wind out of my sails. And it was, and a kind of adrenaline got through, and everyone thought it was hilarious, someone showed, they showed it again during the show later on, for those that missed it earlier, which was fine, I found it funny, but then it was the next day, it all seized up and was all black across my shoulders.

• 8:26Speaker 03

  Oh, that was the year, also, the final, Vigo, was it Vigo then?

• 8:30Ant McPartlin?

  Vigo then. He tripped us up. Yeah. He tripped us up on the final.

• 8:34Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 8:35Ant McPartlin?

  He skidded into my legs and knocked us over.

• 8:36Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 8:38Ant McPartlin?

  Do you remember?

• 8:39Speaker 03

  Probably my most-watched clip on YouTube. I love it.

• 8:43Ant McPartlin?

  All right, I'll do it again this year, just for you.

• 8:44Speaker 03

  Thank you.

• 8:45Declan Donnelly?

  I've got loads of postcards.

• 8:46Ant McPartlin?

  Come on, then. This is kind of you, sending your postcards. Yes, thank you.

• 8:52Declan Donnelly?

  There we go.

• 8:54Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, oh, I see. You bought them in Blackpool and then you've written on them. I see. There we go.

• 9:01Declan Donnelly?

  Thanks.

• 9:02Ant McPartlin?

  Hi, I'm Deck and the team.

• 9:04Speaker 03

  Hey.

• 9:05Ant McPartlin?

  I hear lots of people saying, "I'm Stoppelganger" around the place, but never really Deck's. No idea if it's been said before, but I genuinely thought this person was actually Deck throughout the 90s. I mean, I was born in 1990, so never really thought too much about why he was allowed to be in two pop groups. Why is this bloke everywhere? When on earth does he have a break? Is this Deck? Apologies to the bloke that looks like Deck, as I've never known his name due to the fact I only know him as Deck. I mean, I think it's so uncanny that there's a part of me that's still not entirely sure that it isn't actually Deck. Uh, here's the photo. Middle fella. Who is he?

• 9:47Declan Donnelly?

  Lee. He's Lee from 911. We used to have them on Saturday mornings all the time, didn't we?

• 9:52Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, we did.

• 9:53Declan Donnelly?

  But yeah, we used to get that a lot in the 90s, both me and him, saying that we looked alike.

• 9:58Ant McPartlin?

  Well, Jennifer from Birmingham, who wrote this, says, "Deck, your song 'Body Shakin' is an absolute banger."

• 10:05Declan Donnelly?

  Yes, it is. It's not my song, though. It's not mine. That's Lee from 911's.

• 10:09Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 10:09Declan Donnelly?

  It's like Jimmy Lee.

• 10:10Ant McPartlin?

  You used to get that laws, didn't you?

• 10:11Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, and then we would both get Michael J. Fox.

• 10:14Ant McPartlin?

  Yes. Yes, you would get Michael J. Fox.

• 10:16Declan Donnelly?

  Get that as well.

• 10:17Ant McPartlin?

  I used to get Brian Harvey every now and again, but I think that's just because we both wore caps.

• 10:22Declan Donnelly?

  No, you both had an eyebrow thing going on.

• 10:24Ant McPartlin?

  What do you mean eyebrow? We both had eyebrows.

• 10:26Declan Donnelly?

  Big eyebrows.

• 10:27Ant McPartlin?

  What do you mean we both had big eyebrows? I don't have big eyebrows. Do I have big eyebrows?

• 10:34Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, quite big.

• 10:36Ant McPartlin?

  Well, that just blokes eyebrows.

• 10:38Declan Donnelly?

  Well spotted. Um, I have one here from Emily in Liverpool. She says, "Over the summer, I went to Madame Tussauds in Blackpool and this is what I saw. It's us."

• 10:50Ant McPartlin?

  Ah, yes.

• 10:51Declan Donnelly?

  On the set of "I'm a Celebrity." "My question is, how does all the wax stuff work? Do you have to approve it? Do you get to pick the outfits? Respect, guys."

• 11:02Ant McPartlin?

  Good question. If you go on our socials, there's a video actually of us sitting for our last wax work.

• 11:10Declan Donnelly?

  This is actually our third incarnation of wax figures in Madame Tussauds.

• 11:14Ant McPartlin?

  It is.

• 11:15Declan Donnelly?

  We had our first ones done 25 years ago, then they were updated probably 15 years ago. And they've just been updated again, so these are our new ones. Basically, when they say, "We need to update your waxworks," they mean we need to make you look older. So these are our, these are our new ones. These are only a couple of years old. And yeah, you get the call from Tussauds and say, "Uh, it's time to make you look older. Can you come in?" So you go into their offices and basically they don't, they don't age the ones that already exist. They build a brand new head for you. And they take every measurement non-demand. They measure everything.

• 11:53Ant McPartlin?

  They put little dots all over your head and all over your face, your nose and everything. And then somebody goes around you with a camera, just taking still shots like that. And they get, there's a big box of eyeballs and they pick out an eyeball, put it next to yours to see if it's the same.

• 12:08Declan Donnelly?

  There's like a hundred eyeballs of all different shades.

• 12:11Ant McPartlin?

  Strands, everything. It's really in-depth.

• 12:14Declan Donnelly?

  And then they come, they come, do you remember with the like, the compass? So all the dots on your forehead and all, well, all over your face. And they get a compass, so they'll measure the distance between there and there. And, you know, from your, middle of your forehead to your tip of your nose.

• 12:25Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 12:25Declan Donnelly?

  So they measure everything, but they go away and they make them all by hand. That is their thing at Tussauds. They're all handmade, all hand-done.

• 12:34Speaker 03

  Do you get to choose the pose and the face?

• 12:36Declan Donnelly?

  They, they come and suggest a pose, don't they?

• 12:38Ant McPartlin?

  They do.

• 12:39Declan Donnelly?

  And you kind of come up with a pose together.

• 12:41Ant McPartlin?

  But it's good not to pick a facial expression that you can't hold for a long time. Because they've got to take so many photos and videos and stuff. So if you're like, "Yeah," like that, that's going to be painful after a while. So just your smile is, is good enough.

• 12:57Declan Donnelly?

  Here's an interesting fact for all you wax figure wardrobe fact fans.

• 13:02Ant McPartlin?

  Ah, yes.

• 13:03Declan Donnelly?

  That the clothes that the wax figures wear are actually our clothes.

• 13:06Speaker 03

  Really?

• 13:07Declan Donnelly?

  We donate the outfits. So those clothes that we're wearing in the picture were ours that we wore on "I'm a Celebrity," genuinely. And then you donate them to, to Tussauds.

• 13:15Speaker 03

  They go missing?

• 13:16Ant McPartlin?

  They did go missing, yeah. But that's the second bunch of clothes that we sent them. The first lot went missing. And that was good because the jacket I gave them, I really liked. And I was a bit torn whether they give them or not. And I thought, mm, well, I don't want to lose it for my wardrobe. But I also, I want my wax figurine to have really good clothes, so I want to give them a good jacket. Because a lot of people will be saying them. And then it went missing.

• 13:38Speaker 03

  You did a good prank on, um, Ollie Murs, wasn't you?

• 13:41Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, we did a prank on Ollie Murs on Saturday Night Takeaway where we, uh, told him he was getting fitted for his wax work at Madame Tussauds. So we got the, all the guys at Madame Tussauds to, you know, agreed to do this. So we used their studios, we got them down there.

• 13:55Declan Donnelly?

  And we pretended we worked for Tussauds and that we were making the wax figure.

• 13:58Ant McPartlin?

  We got him in the booth in like this Lycra onesie thing. And he's put his hands up like this and we just sprayed him with all this gun and he's got goggles on. It was very funny.

• 14:08Declan Donnelly?

  And that, the idea for that came from when we went to get our, our wax figures done. And like, this is such a bizarre situation to be in and a bizarre process. Like, this is perfect for an undercover on a celebrity. So we did this at Ollie Murs.

• 14:23Ant McPartlin?

  This next bit is brought to you by Gemini, Google's AI app. So, question for you.

• 14:29Declan Donnelly?

  Go on.

• 14:29Ant McPartlin?

  Did you do a full body workout today?

• 14:31Declan Donnelly?

  No, I did not.

• 14:32Ant McPartlin?

  Do you want me to do a workout plan with Google Gemini?

• 14:35Declan Donnelly?

  That's a great idea.

• 14:36Ant McPartlin?

  Um, there's also a function on here where you can, um, film yourself doing a workout and it'll tell you about your form.

• 14:44Declan Donnelly?

  So you thought you're doing it the right way?

• 14:46Ant McPartlin?

  You want to try it?

• 14:46Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, let's do it.

• 14:48Ant McPartlin?

  Right. Go on, hover the table then.

• 14:51Declan Donnelly?

  Right, let's see how the form is.

• 14:52Ant McPartlin?

  So Gemini, can you be brutally honest about the form of these push-ups, please? Thank you.

• 15:01Speaker 04

  As you asked, here is my brutally honest opinion on the form of those push-ups. I noticed that you kept your body in a nice straight line from your head to your heels, which is an excellent foundation. You also positioned your hands well and lowered your chest nicely, showing good control. Overall, it was a solid display of form.

• 15:20Declan Donnelly?

  Really?

• 15:20Ant McPartlin?

  That's handy though, isn't it? Like, if you're working out at home.

• 15:24Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 15:24Ant McPartlin?

  And you're

• 15:25Declan Donnelly?

  On your own.

• 15:26Ant McPartlin?

  Just on your own, you've got no idea whether you're doing it right, you're doing it wrong, using that.

• 15:30Declan Donnelly?

  Very helpful.

• 15:31Ant McPartlin?

  That's very helpful. That's really good. With Gemini, you can chat live with a truly helpful AI assistant. You can jump in, get some fitness tips, ask for more details or even show what you're talking about by sharing your screen or your camera as well. It's there for a real chat, not just a quick question and done.

• 15:48Declan Donnelly?

  Absolutely. Download the Gemini app today to unlock the power of Google AI on your phone.

• 15:54Ant McPartlin?

  Check responses. Set required. Compatibility and availability varies. 18 plus.

• 16:00Ant McPartlin?

  This episode is brought to you in partnership with Airbnb. It's nearly that time of year again.

• 16:06Declan Donnelly?

  We're off to Australia very soon.

• 16:07Ant McPartlin?

  Off to Australia again.

• 16:08Declan Donnelly?

  I'm very excited and have started packing already.

• 16:11Ant McPartlin?

  I know, I just don't get why you do it so early.

• 16:14Declan Donnelly?

  My spare room looks like there's been a clothes explosion.

• 16:17Ant McPartlin?

  Have you unpacked from Canada, though?

• 16:19Declan Donnelly?

  No, not really.

• 16:20Ant McPartlin?

  No, so what do you, what do you do?

• 16:21Declan Donnelly?

  Very different climates, you see. Very different climates.

• 16:24Ant McPartlin?

  So you've left that one half unpacked.

• 16:25Declan Donnelly?

  Yes.

• 16:26Ant McPartlin?

  And this one's just about to get packed.

• 16:28Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 16:28Ant McPartlin?

  With short sleeve shirts and T-shirts.

• 16:29Declan Donnelly?

  Exactly.

• 16:30Ant McPartlin?

  And shorts and flip flops.

• 16:31Declan Donnelly?

  I was talking to a guy the other day as well, who travels a lot for work.

• 16:34Ant McPartlin?

  Right.

• 16:35Declan Donnelly?

  As we do. And he told me a very interesting thing, that when he goes away for work for a period of time, he lists his house on Airbnb.

• 16:44Ant McPartlin?

  Does he?

• 16:44Declan Donnelly?

  Yes.

• 16:45Ant McPartlin?

  How does that work?

• 16:46Declan Donnelly?

  Well, you know, you can go away and stay in an Airbnb. You can also list your own home and put it on Airbnb whilst you're away.

• 16:53Ant McPartlin?

  That's clever.

• 16:54Declan Donnelly?

  Hmm. He said it's a great way of earning extra money. You decide when you want to host, how long for, and Bob's your uncle, extra money.

• 17:01Ant McPartlin?

  So Bob was the guy that mentioned this to you?

• 17:02Declan Donnelly?

  No, no, Bob's got nothing to do with it.

• 17:04Ant McPartlin?

  But Bob is your uncle?

• 17:05Declan Donnelly?

  No.

• 17:05Ant McPartlin?

  You do have an uncle, Bob, though, don't you?

• 17:07Declan Donnelly?

  But no, it's my brother-in-law.

• 17:08Ant McPartlin?

  Right, okay.

• 17:08Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 17:09Ant McPartlin?

  What's this Bob going to spend all his money on?

• 17:11Declan Donnelly?

  Um, he's going to spend it on a holiday so he can go away after he's been travelling for all his work.

• 17:16Ant McPartlin?

  Okay, good, makes sense.

• 17:17Declan Donnelly?

  It's good. It's a fascinating guy, Bob.

• 17:20Ant McPartlin?

  So your home might be worth more than you think.

• 17:22Declan Donnelly?

  Find out more at airbnb.co.uk/host.

• 17:28Ant McPartlin?

  Okay. Hi, guys and gals.

• 17:30Speaker 03

  Hi, Jamie.

• 17:31Ant McPartlin?

  That's a funny start, isn't it?

• 17:35Ant McPartlin?

  After hearing Deck's butter dilemma on a bonus podcast, I then had a think about other items of food we put in and don't put in the fridge. Where do you stand on potatoes? As me and my partner are constantly tossing the potatoes around from the fridge to the cupboard. I'm a potato in the fridge.

• 17:59Declan Donnelly?

  Sounds like a fun game. Wouldn't as much fly by around there.

• 18:02Ant McPartlin?

  Potato. I'm a potato in the fridge kind of person. I love a cold potato. Warm potatoes just don't sit right with me. My partner argues potatoes should be in a cupboard as they are to be stored on the shop floor and not in the fridge.

• 18:15Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 18:16Ant McPartlin?

  But in the cupboard, they grow weird tentacles.

• 18:18Declan Donnelly?

  That's only if they've been there for ages.

• 18:20Ant McPartlin?

  What's your opinion on this?

• 18:21Declan Donnelly?

  My opinion is in the cupboard.

• 18:22Ant McPartlin?

  Rachel and Rob.

• 18:23Declan Donnelly?

  You don't keep, Rachel, you're wrong. Rob is right. You don't keep your potatoes in the fridge. Everybody knows that. They only grow tentacles if they've been in there for ages and they're off. So that's how you chuck them in there. What do you mean, "I prefer a cold potato"? Surely you're going to cook the potato? You're not going to eat it cold.

• 18:39Ant McPartlin?

  Nobody eats a potato cold.

• 18:40Declan Donnelly?

  No.

• 18:40Speaker 03

  Or raw.

• 18:41Declan Donnelly?

  No, no, no, no.

• 18:41Ant McPartlin?

  A raw, yeah. A raw potato?

• 18:44Speaker 03

  But I wouldn't put an egg in the fridge.

• 18:45Declan Donnelly?

  You wouldn't?

• 18:46Speaker 03

  No.

• 18:47Declan Donnelly?

  I keep my eggs in the fridge.

• 18:49Ant McPartlin?

  What?

• 18:49Speaker 03

  You put an egg in the fridge.

• 18:50Ant McPartlin?

  Don't swear at me like that.

• 18:53Ant McPartlin?

  I put eggs in the bin. That's the way I put them.

• 18:55Speaker 03

  No, you like putting them in that little container.

• 18:57Ant McPartlin?

  I put them in the container because other people like them in the fridge. But you're not meant to, are you?

• 19:03Speaker 03

  I don't think you went to.

• 19:04Declan Donnelly?

  I've got my eggs in the fridge.

• 19:06Speaker 03

  Tomato?

• 19:07Declan Donnelly?

  Fridge.

• 19:08Speaker 03

  No.

• 19:08Declan Donnelly?

  Bananas? No. Never in the fridge. Apple's in the fridge.

• 19:13Speaker 03

  No.

• 19:13Declan Donnelly?

  Crunch.

• 19:17Declan Donnelly?

  Fridge.

• 19:18Ant McPartlin?

  Fridge.

• 19:18Speaker 03

  Ketchup.

• 19:19Ant McPartlin?

  Fridge.

• 19:20Declan Donnelly?

  Fridge. HB sauce?

• 19:22Speaker 03

  Fridge.

• 19:23Declan Donnelly?

  Cupboard.

• 19:23Ant McPartlin?

  Fridge.

• 19:24Declan Donnelly?

  HB in the cupboard? Ketchup in the fridge? Mayo in the fridge?

• 19:28Ant McPartlin?

  Yes, absolutely.

• 19:29Speaker 03

  Mustard.

• 19:31Declan Donnelly?

  Mustard.

• 19:32Speaker 03

  Fridge.

• 19:33Ant McPartlin?

  Well, it depends.

• 19:34Declan Donnelly?

  English mustard?

• 19:35Ant McPartlin?

  English mustard in the cupboard.

• 19:36Declan Donnelly?

  American mustard?

• 19:38Ant McPartlin?

  Fridge.

• 19:38Declan Donnelly?

  Cupboard.

• 19:39Ant McPartlin?

  See, we're different.

• 19:41Speaker 03

  Why are you different?

• 19:42Ant McPartlin?

  We're so different.

• 19:45Declan Donnelly?

  Interesting.

• 19:46Ant McPartlin?

  Great question. We should continue this on further podcasts.

• 19:50Declan Donnelly?

  We should come up with a set of rules of where you should keep stuff.

• 19:52Ant McPartlin?

  Well, it's not rules.

• 19:53Speaker 03

  You don't agree?

• 19:54Ant McPartlin?

  If you don't agree? We're never going to read it.

• 19:57Declan Donnelly?

  No, I think you didn't hear me. We should come up with a set of rules.

• 20:01Declan Donnelly?

  Here we go. Got one from Jim.

• 20:04Ant McPartlin?

  Jim?

• 20:04Declan Donnelly?

  Jim's finally been in touch.

• 20:06Ant McPartlin?

  Hi, Jim.

• 20:06Declan Donnelly?

  Hi, Aunt Deck and the gang.

• 20:08Ant McPartlin?

  Hi. Hi. Is it from your Jim or a guy called Jim?

• 20:11Declan Donnelly?

  This is a guy called Jim.

• 20:12Ant McPartlin?

  You've unpaid your membership?

• 20:13Declan Donnelly?

  He's not. About eight years ago, I went to Amsterdam with a mate on a large jolly.

• 20:18Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, here we go. This is going to be good, isn't it?

• 20:21Declan Donnelly?

  And we decided we'd do all the things two young bucks are expected to do over there.

• 20:25Ant McPartlin?

  Yep.

• 20:26Declan Donnelly?

  A romantic canal cruise.

• 20:27Ant McPartlin?

  What?

• 20:28Declan Donnelly?

  The Van Gogh museum. Anne Frank's house, you know? The classic cultural tour.

• 20:33Ant McPartlin?

  Mm hmm.

• 20:34Declan Donnelly?

  Naturally, the evenings involved a few tip-holes.

• 20:37Ant McPartlin?

  Yes.

• 20:37Declan Donnelly?

  And around 3am, fuelled by chips and a misplaced confidence, I decided it would be a brilliant idea to get a tattoo to commemorate the trip. I found the only tattoo artist still open and asked for the Amsterdam flag, which is three X's in red and black.

• 20:57Ant McPartlin?

  What is it?

• 20:59Declan Donnelly?

  Unfortunately, as you can see, it looks less like Amsterdam.

• 21:04Declan Donnelly?

  And more like, more like I'm a massive Britain's Got Talent superfan.

• 21:11Declan Donnelly?

  I'm sad to say it's not even my worst tattoo.

• 21:14Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, my God, that's horrendous.

• 21:17Declan Donnelly?

  Jim, he looks like he's a BGT superfan from back when we only had three judges.

• 21:21Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 21:22Declan Donnelly?

  Before we added a fourth.

• 21:23Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, he's an OG. He's a BGT OG.

• 21:26Declan Donnelly?

  Pierce Amanda Simon.

• 21:30Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, Jim, horrendous.

• 21:31Declan Donnelly?

  Jim, I want to see your worst tattoo, Jim.

• 21:33Ant McPartlin?

  I want to see his worst.

• 21:34Declan Donnelly?

  That's not your worst one. I want to see your worst one.

• 21:35Ant McPartlin?

  Send it in. Send it in. We should do a little, a little league table of the worst. Hi, I'm Deck and Henkless Connor.

• 21:42Declan Donnelly?

  Hey.

• 21:42Ant McPartlin?

  I'm currently in year eight and will be choosing my GCSE subjects soon. Tough decision for me.

• 21:48Declan Donnelly?

  Yes.

• 21:49Ant McPartlin?

  As I love all of them, except for maths and science. I was wondering what your favourite subjects were at school and if they helped you later on in life. I love listening to your podcast with my twin sister, Aurelia, and it creates lots of inside jokes between us. I also have a story I wanted to share. Well, we'll come to that. Do you want to, do you want to discuss our favourite subjects?

• 22:12Declan Donnelly?

  Favourite subjects at school were English, English lit, English lang.

• 22:17Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 22:17Declan Donnelly?

  Loved those two. I did English literature at A level for three months before I dropped out to be in Biker Grove, to be famous on the telly. And I really enjoyed economics.

• 22:29Ant McPartlin?

  Did you?

• 22:29Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, I did economics back in the day. Loved that. Didn't love maths, I have to say.

• 22:35Ant McPartlin?

  I hate maths.

• 22:36Declan Donnelly?

  Um, I was awful at most other things, actually. Physics, I was terrible at. Any, any of the sciences, I was awful. French, I was dreadful. English was my favourite.

• 22:45Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 22:45Declan Donnelly?

  And yet it, it kind of has helped me, I suppose, with language and being able to speak to people. And.

• 22:53Ant McPartlin?

  And you be able to write.

• 22:53Declan Donnelly?

  And write and but communications and kind of creative writing.

• 22:56Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 22:57Declan Donnelly?

  All of those things. So, yeah.

• 22:59Ant McPartlin?

  Mine were history. Loved history, took that free level for six months, lasted a little bit longer than you.

• 23:06Declan Donnelly?

  It did last longer than me.

• 23:06Ant McPartlin?

  I liked history, liked English language. I liked drama, did drama at school, media studies. I took media studies for my GCSEs and loved it.

• 23:16Declan Donnelly?

  Hmm, I bet.

• 23:16Ant McPartlin?

  Uh, because I had a brilliant teacher as well.

• 23:18Declan Donnelly?

  Has that helped you in your job in any way?

• 23:20Ant McPartlin?

  Uh, maybe a little bit, I don't know. Hard to tell, isn't it? But, yeah, it makes such a difference. It really, and I think you've just got to choose what you love.

• 23:28Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, absolutely.

• 23:29Ant McPartlin?

  No point forcing something that you don't love.

• 23:32Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 23:32Ant McPartlin?

  Because you're never going to have, you're never going to get any joy from it.

• 23:35Declan Donnelly?

  Choose what you love and maths.

• 23:38Ant McPartlin?

  Yes, you have to, don't you?

• 23:39Declan Donnelly?

  You'd have, yeah, yes.

• 23:40Ant McPartlin?

  Do you want to hear the story?

• 23:41Declan Donnelly?

  Absolutely.

• 23:42Ant McPartlin?

  So Lexi says, one time, my teacher set an assignment to rank some things from best to worst.

• 23:49Declan Donnelly?

  Love that.

• 23:49Ant McPartlin?

  There happened to be eight things to rank, so I thought that I would rank them in bananas. Why not?

• 23:54Declan Donnelly?

  Why not?

• 23:55Ant McPartlin?

  When I handed it in, it turned out my teacher also listens to the podcast and understood the joke. Lexi, age 12.

• 24:02Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, amazing.

• 24:03Ant McPartlin?

  Thank you, Lexi.

• 24:04Declan Donnelly?

  Thank you for listening, Lexi.

• 24:05Ant McPartlin?

  And thank you, Lexi's teacher.

• 24:06Declan Donnelly?

  And a twin sister, Aurelia.

• 24:08Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah. Thanks to, thanks to all of you.

• 24:10Declan Donnelly?

  Thanks for listening.

• 24:10Ant McPartlin?

  Or rich, or rich again, why not?

• 24:15Declan Donnelly?

  Uh, I've got one more here before we're going to go.

• 24:16Ant McPartlin?

  Okay.

• 24:17Declan Donnelly?

  This is from Laura Aubrey in Perth, Australia.

• 24:20Ant McPartlin?

  Ah.

• 24:20Declan Donnelly?

  Ever been?

• 24:21Ant McPartlin?

  Uh, no, I haven't been.

• 24:21Declan Donnelly?

  No, I haven't, we've never been to Perth, never made it over that side. Uh, hi, sexy and nice.

• 24:26Ant McPartlin?

  Hi.

• 24:27Declan Donnelly?

  You all right, nice?

• 24:30Declan Donnelly?

  Uh, I'm sure you get lots of questions about the worst BGT auditions you've seen, but I always wonder, does anyone vomit or pass out or anything just before going on stage and therefore lose their audition? Great question, Laura in Perth.

• 24:47Ant McPartlin?

  Very, very good.

• 24:48Declan Donnelly?

  Don't think we've had any vomitas at this side of stage.

• 24:51Ant McPartlin?

  Not for, not for a long time.

• 24:53Declan Donnelly?

  We have had some people who get very close to going on stage and then go, I can't do it.

• 24:57Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 24:58Declan Donnelly?

  And go home.

• 24:59Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 24:59Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, yeah, some people pull out.

• 25:01Ant McPartlin?

  A lot of the times as well, they get so nervous they have to be moved down the running order so they can just try and get over their nerves a bit and they come on a bit, a little bit later on.

• 25:09Declan Donnelly?

  Or sometimes they get moved to another day.

• 25:11Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 25:11Declan Donnelly?

  And then sometimes they get moved to another year.

• 25:14Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 25:14Declan Donnelly?

  Where they're just.

• 25:15Ant McPartlin?

  Or they just go home.

• 25:16Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, they just, sometimes they're not quite ready. But we've never had any dramatic vomits or passing outs.

• 25:22Ant McPartlin?

  Don't think so.

• 25:23Declan Donnelly?

  We've had a lot of people, some people in a bit of a sweat and looking very pale going, I don't think I can do this.

• 25:30Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 25:31Declan Donnelly?

  And leaving.

• 25:32Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, we've had, we've had a lot of can, there's been, after the audition, mostly people are like full of adrenaline and they need to sit down and speak to the medic or whatever, but, um, never before, not beforehand.

• 25:45Declan Donnelly?

  Do you know what we get a lot? The curious case of the dry mouth.

• 25:49Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 25:50Declan Donnelly?

  You know, when people are so nervous that you can't generate any saliva?

• 25:53Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 25:54Declan Donnelly?

  And they're like, their, their lips are sticking to their teeth a bit. And they go, yeah, my mouth's so dry. And it doesn't matter if you drink water or not, it's just the, the moisture just goes immediately.

• 26:07Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 26:08Declan Donnelly?

  And they go, I'm so dry. We had that last night, didn't we?

• 26:11Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, we did.

• 26:12Declan Donnelly?

  A girl singer came off and she did a brilliant job and she got loads of nice comments, got four yeses and she came off, I'm so dry.

• 26:21Speaker 03

  Any really sweaty ones?

• 26:23Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, sweaty hands, a lot of sweaty hands, sweaty hands, sweaty backs. Lot of sweaty backs when you're going for the hug afterwards, you're like, yes. There is smells, yes.

• 26:32Declan Donnelly?

  Yes.

• 26:32Speaker 03

  How many high fives do you think you've done already this week?

• 26:35Declan Donnelly?

  Oh.

• 26:35Ant McPartlin?

  A lot, a lot of high fives.

• 26:37Declan Donnelly?

  A lot. We had a male voice choir yesterday.

• 26:39Speaker 03

  Oh, that's the funniest one. Are you all right, your palms?

• 26:42Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, yeah, no bruises.

• 26:43Ant McPartlin?

  You do bruise easy.

• 26:44Speaker 03

  Animals, any pee backstage?

• 26:47Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 26:48Ant McPartlin?

  My dog, my old dog, Hurley, he was, um, down at the show when we're doing auditions once and we had a woman who came on to do yoga with her dog. So she invited some of the judges on stage and us to bring our dogs and Deck had Rocky and we went on to see if we can do yoga. Now, it's probably easier to do it with little dogs because you can lift them up and move them around. But mine was a big chocolate Labrador, so he decided just to pee on stage for the longest time. It was the longest wee. I think somebody timed it, didn't they?

• 27:20Declan Donnelly?

  It timed it, yeah, it was 30 odd seconds.

• 27:21Ant McPartlin?

  It was so, so long.

• 27:22Declan Donnelly?

  He just stared at the audience while he was doing it.

• 27:26Ant McPartlin?

  There was another dog on stage, smelt Hurley's wee and wee in the, uh, the judges' shoes.

• 27:36Ant McPartlin?

  Very good, good episode.

• 27:37Declan Donnelly?

  On that bombshell.

• 27:38Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 27:39Declan Donnelly?

  I think we'll leave it there. We'll be back next Thursday.

• 27:42Ant McPartlin?

  Back in the studio?

• 27:42Speaker 03

  Back in the studio.

• 27:43Declan Donnelly?

  We'll be back in the studio next Thursday. We'll have to leave the castle.

• 27:46Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, what a shame.

• 27:46Declan Donnelly?

  Feels a bit like doing I'm a Celebrity in Wales, this.

• 27:48Ant McPartlin?

  It does. Not with that.

• 27:49Declan Donnelly?

  Not with that. Um, we'll be back on Thursday with the main pod. What?

• 27:53Speaker 03

  YouTube.

• 27:55Declan Donnelly?

  On YouTube. We'll be back.

• 27:57Speaker 03

  Speaking well.

• 27:59Declan Donnelly?

  We'll be back on Thursday with the main show. Until then, respect, guys.

• 28:07Ant McPartlin?

  Over and out.

• 28:08Declan Donnelly?

  There we go.

• 28:08Ant McPartlin?

  Ah, forgot it, forgot to be on catchphrase.

• 28:10Declan Donnelly?

  There you go.

• 28:23Speaker 05

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