Ant’s Biggest Diva Moment & Should Dec Pierce His Ears?

On today's bonus holiday episode, discover Ant's biggest diva demand, find out how Dec might have assisted in getting someone into trouble at work, and hear the boys' brilliant idea for a future animated series. Plus, should Dec get his ears pierced? The boys reveal their reality TV guilty pleasures and they celebrate a very special listener's 102nd birthday! Keep your correspondence coming at [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! ----- 00:35 - A Chinese Banquet03:00 - Dec’s 12 Month Promise?06:50 - Biggest Diva11:39 - A Very Posh Company14:45 - 102 Year Old Grandad19:30 - Reality TV Favs22:00 - Worst Public Tantrum23:25 - Animated Ant & Dec Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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• 1:33Ant McPartlin?

  La la la la, la la la. Cheers.

• 1:38Declan Donnelly?

  Hello, everybody.

• 1:40Ant McPartlin?

  Everybody.

• 1:41Declan Donnelly?

  Woo woo. Welcome back for another Hanging Out on Holiday with him and me. It's your bonus episode, your Monday ep. We're still on our holidays. You having a nice time, Anne?

• 1:52Ant McPartlin?

  Yes, you?

• 1:53Declan Donnelly?

  Yes.

• 1:54Ant McPartlin?

  Good.

• 1:55Declan Donnelly?

  Let's get on with it.

• 1:57Ant McPartlin?

  No, no, no, Dad. I see a lot of you on this holiday, don't I?

• 2:00Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, we have seen each other quite a bit, actually.

• 2:02Ant McPartlin?

  So we don't need to catch up a lot. We went for a nice Chinese the other night, didn't we?

• 2:05Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, we did.

• 2:06Ant McPartlin?

  Good food, that one.

• 2:08Declan Donnelly?

  We went for a, you know, when you go to a Chinese and you have a set menu, a banquet. Core. The use of the word banquet was never more apt.

• 2:17Ant McPartlin?

  There was a lot of food.

• 2:18Declan Donnelly?

  There was so much food.

• 2:20Ant McPartlin?

  There was like 10 courses. It was ridiculous. Tasty though. Very tasty food.

• 2:25Declan Donnelly?

  Delicious.

• 2:26Ant McPartlin?

  Very tasty food.

• 2:27Declan Donnelly?

  You took a little doggy bag home, didn't you?

• 2:28Ant McPartlin?

  I did take a doggy bag home.

• 2:30Declan Donnelly?

  Did you end up eating it? This is my thing. You know, when you take doggy bags back from restaurants. I often feel like they stay in the fridge for a bit and then they go in the bin.

• 2:38Ant McPartlin?

  I didn't either, but somebody in my household ate the whole thing.

• 2:42Declan Donnelly?

  Was it the guy that I hit on the head with the golf ball?

• 2:44Ant McPartlin?

  Could be, yes, yes. He who shall not be named, my darling boyfriend. Do not name him.

• 2:50Declan Donnelly?

  Delicious food though.

• 2:51Ant McPartlin?

  And I'm seeing you later.

• 2:53Declan Donnelly?

  Oh yeah, we're having dinner tonight, aren't we?

• 2:54Ant McPartlin?

  We're having dinner tonight as well.

• 2:56Declan Donnelly?

  What a treat for you.

• 2:57Ant McPartlin?

  For me?

• 2:58Declan Donnelly?

  Having dinner with me.

• 2:59Ant McPartlin?

  Great. I'm feeling like a competition winner. Can you do my voice now as well?

• 3:06Ant McPartlin?

  So we got postcards from your, yeah, go on.

• 3:09Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, I was going to exactly say that. Go on. You're doing it. You're doing great.

• 3:12Ant McPartlin?

  I was doing well there, wasn't I? You interrupted me. Interrupted me flaw. You talked over me again.

• 3:17Declan Donnelly?

  I did.

• 3:18Ant McPartlin?

  So I'm on holiday and he's still doing it. Sit back and drink your tea. We've got your postcards. I've got a few here this week. I think you've got a few as well, Deck. I'm going to dive straight into them because this one is a good one. There it is. There's the picture. Can you see it? That looks nice. Nice and cold. Where's that? Reykjavik, maybe?

• 3:41Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, could be.

• 3:42Ant McPartlin?

  In a Scandi country. I like it though. I've been to Reykjavik. Ever been? Yes, I have.

• 3:47Declan Donnelly?

  I haven't. You have. Have you?

• 3:49Ant McPartlin?

  It's very good. I loved Iceland.

• 3:52Declan Donnelly?

  Did you? Did you see the Northern Lights?

• 3:54Ant McPartlin?

  I didn't see the Northern Lights. I didn't. I know. I was there for five days and didn't see them once. It was too cloudy. It was such a shame. So I'd like to go back. I'm definitely going to go back. But I went to all of the kind of the geysers.

• 4:07Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, you don't know what's in geysers?

• 4:09Ant McPartlin?

  No, the thermal pools, Declan. It was, it was unbelievable. Like the volcanic sand, everything's, you know, you go to a beach and everything's black. It's remarkable. A remarkable country. Lovely people. I was there for a New Year one time. It was great. Anyway, enough about me. Let's get back to you, Terry in Somerset. Who says, hi guys and hecklers enjoying the pod. I watch every episode. So, Anne is having a tattoo to celebrate six months of the pod. Well, a little bit longer actually, because we're doing it after our holidays. I was just wondering what Deck's going to be doing to celebrate 12 months of the pod. Respect, guys. Terry in Somerset. Good question.

• 4:53Declan Donnelly?

  Very good question, Terry. I was thinking of possibly opening a lovely bottle of Paul Roger. Maybe having a glass of champagne.

• 5:05Ant McPartlin?

  No, he doesn't mean like that. Like, what are you going to do?

• 5:09Declan Donnelly?

  Obviously going to do anything.

• 5:10Ant McPartlin?

  That will forever change your body to celebrate the success of the podcast.

• 5:15Speaker 05

  I've got an idea.

• 5:16Ant McPartlin?

  Go on.

• 5:17Speaker 05

  I think Deck should get his ears pierced.

• 5:20Ant McPartlin?

  Great idea. Great idea.

• 5:21Speaker 05

  Just gave it to me. I've been thinking about it for a while.

• 5:24Ant McPartlin?

  A little hoop. Or a stud?

• 5:26Speaker 05

  A hoop.

• 5:28Ant McPartlin?

  A hoop.

• 5:28Declan Donnelly?

  I could grow another beard. That seemed to go down well.

• 5:30Ant McPartlin?

  Are you going to go like footballery and go quite diamond study, Deck? Are you going to go simple with a hoop?

• 5:36Declan Donnelly?

  Could I just get a new pair of glasses?

• 5:38Ant McPartlin?

  No, we've done that.

• 5:42Ant McPartlin?

  I can get, I'll buy some glasses. Don't worry about that.

• 5:44Declan Donnelly?

  I still got them. Still got them. I wasn't planning on doing anything, if I'm honest. Shall we, shall we talk?

• 5:51Ant McPartlin?

  I think we should. I think if you can give us some suggestions on what Deck can do to celebrate a year of the pod. Well, you could do it at the same time as my tattoo.

• 6:00Declan Donnelly?

  No, I can't do that.

• 6:02Ant McPartlin?

  Why?

• 6:03Declan Donnelly?

  Well, because your tattoo's been a long running thing. It's from the very beginning. So everybody's waiting for that.

• 6:10Ant McPartlin?

  I tell you what we should do. When we come back for series two of the pod, if we, if you want us back, if we do another series, then you, we can decide on what you're going to do to celebrate. Season two.

• 6:22Declan Donnelly?

  I could write a letter to season one, Deck.

• 6:24Ant McPartlin?

  No, that's been done. That's been done. We don't go raw ground.

• 6:27Declan Donnelly?

  Grow a beard or write a letter?

• 6:29Ant McPartlin?

  Nah.

• 6:30Declan Donnelly?

  I'm good at that.

• 6:31Ant McPartlin?

  Nah. We'll have a think. Send in your suggestions. So at the top of the list at the minute, he's piercing his ears. Great.

• 6:39Speaker 05

  What about short shorts the whole series?

• 6:43Ant McPartlin?

  Yes. Shorts and a beard like David Bellamy for the whole series.

• 6:48Declan Donnelly?

  I could wear short shorts for an episode.

• 6:52Ant McPartlin?

  Okay. Doesn't flow my boat.

• 6:55Declan Donnelly?

  I wasn't, because I wasn't going to do anything five minutes ago.

• 6:59Ant McPartlin?

  Uh huh. Well, other than what? Just drink champagne on your own?

• 7:02Declan Donnelly?

  Not on my own.

• 7:03Ant McPartlin?

  How can we enjoy that?

• 7:05Declan Donnelly?

  You can watch me. I'll do it on the pod.

• 7:08Ant McPartlin?

  Do you want to just do one where you're drunk for the whole pod?

• 7:12Declan Donnelly?

  That wouldn't be a very good idea. That might be my last ever podcast.

• 7:15Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, okay. We're saving for the last ever one.

• 7:17Declan Donnelly?

  Well, we'll have a think.

• 7:18Ant McPartlin?

  Okay, we will. And please give us any suggestions. They're welcome.

• 7:23Declan Donnelly?

  I have got one here and this is a very rainy, rainy scene.

• 7:30Ant McPartlin?

  Is it a Parisian scene?

• 7:32Declan Donnelly?

  Could be. The rainy Parisian night where lovers gather under umbrellas to shelter from the rain. I don't know if they're lovers. But it's from Amanda in Cornwall. That's not Cornwall.

• 7:47Ant McPartlin?

  Amanda Holden. She's got a place down there, hasn't she, in Cornwall? Isn't that where she's from? It's from Amanda Holden.

• 7:53Declan Donnelly?

  It's not Amanda Holden. She says, hi, Aunt Deck and Hecklers Corner Queens.

• 7:58Speaker 05

  Hey, hey, Queens.

• 8:00Ant McPartlin?

  Queens. Hey, Queens.

• 8:02Speaker 05

  Queens. Hey, Queens. Like.

• 8:05Declan Donnelly?

  Wow. Hecklers Corner Queens. You are obviously mega celebs in the UK.

• 8:12Speaker 05

  Oh, thanks.

• 8:13Declan Donnelly?

  I'm not sure this is still to you. But just seem so normal and relatable on the pod despite this. I know, I don't think this is to you, this bit. My question is, do you each have a story of a time where the other one acted like a complete diva? Lots of love and respect, guys. Amanda in Cornwall. Sent using my actual brain with help from my phone.

• 8:40Declan Donnelly?

  I don't know what that bit is. Have I got an example of when you were a diva? Hmm.

• 8:45Ant McPartlin?

  I've been a diva.

• 8:48Ant McPartlin?

  It's not really, it's not really my makeup. It's not really, either of our makeups being a diva, is it?

• 8:55Declan Donnelly?

  Don't think so.

• 8:56Speaker 05

  No.

• 8:57Declan Donnelly?

  Even inadvertently.

• 8:59Ant McPartlin?

  I asked, the, the, the, the most divaish thing I've done recently, if you can even class it as that, has, I insisted on a portaloo near the, our dressing rooms when we were shooting Holy Moly. Um, is that divaish?

• 9:14Declan Donnelly?

  Well, I didn't find it divaish because I benefited from that.

• 9:18Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, we both used the same portaloo. The loo's were miles away.

• 9:22Declan Donnelly?

  They were miles away.

• 9:23Ant McPartlin?

  And Holy Moly is the biggest set you've ever seen. Um, and when you see the show on, on TV, you'll realise to get from one side to the other side is, is, is miles away for us, near our little dressing rooms. So we said, can we please, we didn't, we didn't divary, stop it. We just said, come here with a portaloo near the dressing rooms and we got one the next day.

• 9:44Declan Donnelly?

  And it's hardly, it's hardly diva behaviour to request a portaloo. It's not like we wanted a Winnebago with a toilet in it.

• 9:53Ant McPartlin?

  Nah.

• 9:54Declan Donnelly?

  We just wanted a portaloo that was just a bit closer to our dressing rooms so we could make it back to set quicker. I don't, I can't think of a time you've been a diva, Ant.

• 10:03Speaker 05

  No, I with you guys a lot and I must admit, you, you aren't divas at all.

• 10:07Ant McPartlin?

  Ah, that's kind.

• 10:09Speaker 05

  See, I can be nice sometimes.

• 10:10Ant McPartlin?

  Could we get away with being more divaish, do you think?

• 10:12Declan Donnelly?

  Could we push it a bit?

• 10:14Speaker 05

  I think, yeah.

• 10:15Ant McPartlin?

  How could we push it? Because we don't want to push it too far.

• 10:18Speaker 05

  Because even your snacks, you don't even go crazy with your, with your snacks.

• 10:21Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, but the, the problem is as well, a lot of our snacks that we request, that when we don't request them, they'll say to us when we do a TV show, for example, Britain's Got Talent, where I'm doing auditions at Blackpool, we come into the dressing room and it's full of sweets. Sweets, chocolate, crisps on the side. And we've been eating these sweets for a while and we're like, I don't even like them. Right? I, I know, I won't name the brand, but there's a certain thing that there was in the dressing room, wasn't there, Deck? Everywhere.

• 10:49Declan Donnelly?

  And everywhere we went, whether it was doing Britain's Got Talent or when we go down to On The Celebrity or when we go and shoot adverts or when we're on shoots for things, everywhere we go, the same sweets and crisps and food would be laid out in our dressing room. We're like, isn't this weird that everybody gets us the same stuff? And then we realised, or it was revealed to us, that we have a rider. And you know, when bands and people go places and there is a rider of stuff that they request? Apparently we have a rider and I didn't even know we had one. And on it is sweets, crisps, chocolate and fizzy pop, stuff we don't eat.

• 11:29Ant McPartlin?

  I tell you who requested half of it is Rachel, who works with us. She should be listening to this right now. Rachel, you're the one that likes dried fruit, not me. So get it off my rider. I can't stand dried fruit. That's one of my things.

• 11:43Declan Donnelly?

  There's popcorn everywhere we go.

• 11:44Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, popcorn and dried mango. It's, nobody eats that. They don't know, do they?

• 11:51Declan Donnelly?

  No.

• 11:51Ant McPartlin?

  Dried fruit, I just don't get it. What's the point? What is the point?

• 11:57Declan Donnelly?

  Rachel, you've been rumbled.

• 11:59Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, you have. Anyway, we're going to be more divas in the future.

• 12:03Declan Donnelly?

  Good, we can push it. I like this.

• 12:05Ant McPartlin?

  Great. All right. Thanks, girls.

• 12:06Declan Donnelly?

  I'm going to come up with some ideas of how we can be more divaish.

• 12:09Speaker 05

  Ask for presents.

• 12:11Declan Donnelly?

  Yes.

• 12:14Declan Donnelly?

  From the crew?

• 12:15Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah.

• 12:19Ant McPartlin?

  Every day, every day, every day has to be Christmas Day when we arrive at work. I've got quite a meaty one here.

• 12:26Declan Donnelly?

  Ooh.

• 12:27Ant McPartlin?

  Ooh. Uh, this is the scene. Where is that? Is that like a Grecian scene somewhere, like in Austria, do you think? Maybe?

• 12:34Declan Donnelly?

  It looks hot.

• 12:35Ant McPartlin?

  This postcard says, hello, Ant and Deck. I would like to let Deck know that he caused me to do something very bad at work.

• 12:45Declan Donnelly?

  Uh-oh.

• 12:46Ant McPartlin?

  I work for a very posh car company in the UK. Who's that? Rolls Royce? Is it Rolls Royce?

• 12:52Declan Donnelly?

  Bentley, Bentley, Rolls Royce.

• 12:54Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, it's got to be. And I always sneakily listen to the pod while I'm in the office. I'm quite inconspicuous about it, usually until the post-it note. Do you want to know about the post-it note?

• 13:06Declan Donnelly?

  Yes.

• 13:07Ant McPartlin?

  Okay, I'll read on. Yesterday I was catching up on the pod and I wrote down a food recommendation on a post-it note for you guys to try. Grated cheese and brown sauce sandwich on white bread.

• 13:19Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, what a, that's a zinger.

• 13:22Ant McPartlin?

  So she's wrote that down on the post-it note, right? Remember that. Then, as she was listening, Deck dropped his line, I'll smash your face in. I was laughing to myself, thinking, surely Deck should write, I'll smash your knees in because you couldn't reach people's faces because you're so small. It's, I mean, she makes a good point, a very good point. So I scribbled it down on the same post-it note to remind myself to email it to you all after I've finished work. So she was going to email the pod and that's, that's all the food recommendation, her funny little quip. It was today I realised that the post-it note was no longer attached to my notepad, meaning it's come off

• 14:04Ant McPartlin?

  and been left on somebody else's desk during one of my meetings at work at the posh place, the posh car place. So somewhere in my extremely posh professional workplace, I left a note on some unknown person's desk, which says, grated cheese on brown sandwich or smash your knees in.

• 14:28Ant McPartlin?

  Let me know if any job openings come up. Deck, you owe me, I'll smash your face in, from Katie. Oh, that is so good.

• 14:37Declan Donnelly?

  I would love to know where that post-it note ended up.

• 14:39Ant McPartlin?

  Oh my God. Does anybody else in her company listen to the podcast? They must do. They must do. Cause if you do and you've got the post-it note, get in touch, you let us know.

• 14:49Declan Donnelly?

  I like the idea of the chief executive of Rolls Royce or Bentley or a luxurious British car company having a post-it note on his desk saying, threatening to smash his knees in if he doesn't give out a grated cheese and HP sauce sandwich.

• 15:03Ant McPartlin?

  He's going to be kneecapped if he doesn't get the right sandwich. What? I'm being threatened? Uh, would you try, firstly, would you try that?

• 15:11Declan Donnelly?

  Absolutely. That sounds right up my street.

• 15:14Ant McPartlin?

  Grated cheese and brown sauce. You used to have brown sauce sandwiches, didn't you?

• 15:18Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, just brown sauce.

• 15:19Ant McPartlin?

  Or brown sauce on toast.

• 15:20Declan Donnelly?

  Or on toast, but, or just sandwich, just bread, butter, brown sauce. Absolutely love it. It's like a bacon sandwich without any bacon. It's basically a vegan bacon sandwich.

• 15:32Ant McPartlin?

  It is. There you go.

• 15:34Declan Donnelly?

  The original vegan bacon sandwich. Yeah, I would try that though. But, but grated cheese and brown sauce.

• 15:40Ant McPartlin?

  Sounds good. Mellowed, is the, is the cheese mellowed? She doesn't say. She was too busy writing down, I'll smash your knees in.

• 15:47Declan Donnelly?

  Grated and then all kind of bound together with brown sauce.

• 15:51Ant McPartlin?

  Bound together. Never describe a recipe as bound together. That, that does make it sound appealing, appetising, one bit. And it's all bound together on bread.

• 16:06Declan Donnelly?

  I've got one here from Jazz Lazenby, who's in Whitley Bay.

• 16:10Ant McPartlin?

  Hi Jazz. Ever been?

• 16:12Declan Donnelly?

  Been a lot.

• 16:14Ant McPartlin?

  Same.

• 16:14Declan Donnelly?

  Love Whitley Bay. Hi guys. Listen to the pod where you were discussing immortality and Deck said he couldn't be bothered with it. And I had to comment as I agree. My grandad will be a hundred and two in August.

• 16:28Ant McPartlin?

  Wow.

• 16:28Declan Donnelly?

  And he's had a great life and still has all his marvels, but I hope to God I don't inherit his genes for longevity.

• 16:37Declan Donnelly?

  I think being immortal would soon get boring, just like living for over a century and getting frustrated that you can't do what you used to. Anyway, if you could wish my grandad Ron a happy hundred and second birthday for next, next month, I'd be forever grateful. And so would he, as he knows how much I love you both. Respect, guys, Jazz Lazenby.

• 16:56Ant McPartlin?

  Happy one hundred and second birthday, Ron.

• 17:00Declan Donnelly?

  And that's on a lovely postcard.

• 17:02Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, that's nice.

• 17:03Declan Donnelly?

  Of a night scene.

• 17:05Ant McPartlin?

  That's nice.

• 17:05Declan Donnelly?

  And some steps.

• 17:06Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, spooky.

• 17:07Declan Donnelly?

  Steps at night.

• 17:09Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 17:09Declan Donnelly?

  Not, not Claire and H and Lee and Fay and Lisa, but some steps. Happy one hundred and second birthday, Ron, for August twenty twenty six. That is incredible. So he was born in nineteen twenty four, if my maths is correct.

• 17:28Ant McPartlin?

  Wow. You see, but look at what he's seen in those years. I get his frustrations if you're getting older and you can't do the things that you used to be able to do.

• 17:37Declan Donnelly?

  Like play five side.

• 17:38Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, I get all of that, right? Because your body ages and it must be really frustrating and like, you know, your mind slows down and all of those things. But if you're immortal, I presume both age isn't an issue to you. So you get to live almost in the prime of your life forever.

• 17:57Declan Donnelly?

  Well, that's a different, that's a different outlook on things.

• 18:03Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, a positive outlook there.

• 18:05Declan Donnelly?

  That's a different proposition.

• 18:06Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah. Well, that's what immortal is, isn't it? Cause Ron's not immortal. He's just, he's lived to a ripe old age of a hundred and two. I mean, unless he is, he's just not telling us. But that's, that's a different thing. He gets, imagine if you're immortal, you get to see all of this wonderful world again and again and again. Imagine what Ron's seen in the hundred and two years he's been on this planet, the changes that have been made, the, the, the steps forward in technology. Imagine what it used to be like for him when he was growing up.

• 18:40Declan Donnelly?

  Hmm.

• 18:41Ant McPartlin?

  And to, to now. It's crazy the change.

• 18:45Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 18:45Ant McPartlin?

  And you get to live that again and again and again. Oh my God, that's exciting. Where do I sign up?

• 18:52Declan Donnelly?

  I don't know if I can be bothered.

• 18:54Ant McPartlin?

  So you're excited to die?

• 18:56Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, what do you say? I'm excited to die? But I just don't want to be here forever.

• 19:01Ant McPartlin?

  Wait for it.

• 19:02Declan Donnelly?

  No, I can't wait for it and I will.

• 19:04Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 19:04Declan Donnelly?

  Hopefully for a long time, but I don't want to be forever. Like there, there must be more to, there must be more to life than life.

• 19:13Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, I agree.

• 19:14Declan Donnelly?

  Does that make sense?

• 19:15Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah. What's the next one? What's the next part of this soul's journey?

• 19:20Declan Donnelly?

  Yes.

• 19:21Ant McPartlin?

  You know, where does your energy go next? Cause it's great, has to go somewhere. Doesn't just stop. It moves from one thing to the other thing.

• 19:28Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah. Where's, what's, what happens to your consciousness when this body stops working? Where does this consciousness go? Cause that doesn't stop, does it?

• 19:36Ant McPartlin?

  We need to do a lot of spin-off podcasts, I think, to answer a lot of this. And we need to get.

• 19:40Declan Donnelly?

  Experts, we need experts.

• 19:41Ant McPartlin?

  We need, we need experts because Jemima and Fiona and Sexy and Nice are not really giving us anything back here. You just sit back like innocent bystanders and you don't, like, do you know anything about the next realm where we go to next? What happens after we die? Do you?

• 19:58Speaker 05

  Yes, but Lo isn't going to share that publicly.

• 20:01Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 20:05Ant McPartlin?

  And also, where's Lola? She's still on holiday in London.

• 20:08Speaker 06

  She's slacking, yeah. She's gone to Brighton now.

• 20:11Ant McPartlin?

  Has she really?

• 20:12Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 20:12Ant McPartlin?

  Good for her. Good for her. Okay, next postcard then.

• 20:16Declan Donnelly?

  Happy birthday, Ron.

• 20:17Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, happy hundred and second birthday. Okay, I've got, oh, I like this. Look at this. Look at this. Manhattan at night.

• 20:31Ant McPartlin?

  Hiya, lads.

• 20:32Declan Donnelly?

  Hiya.

• 20:32Ant McPartlin?

  Heckler's Corner.

• 20:34Speaker 05

  Hey.

• 20:35Ant McPartlin?

  And Sexy and Nice.

• 20:37Speaker 05

  Hello.

• 20:38Speaker 06

  They're silent.

• 20:39Ant McPartlin?

  Silence. So I'm a big reality TV fan, right? Okay, Real Housewives being a top babe. My husband, although he would never admit it, also gets sucked in and enjoys the goings on of rich American ladies fighting. My question is, is there anything your wives watch that you hate and complain about, but actually you secretly love it, that they're watching it? For example, are you a secret Kardashian fan? Question mark. Love to you both. Nikki from Andover, Hampshire.

• 21:11Declan Donnelly?

  Hi, Nikki. You've hit the nail on the head there. The current Mrs. D is a big fan and watches all of the Kardashians shenanigans. And I'm like, I haven't got time for this. I cannot be bothered. Oh, this is interesting.

• 21:28Declan Donnelly?

  Because it is quite fascinating, their life, isn't it? And their existence, like what they do and how they go on and what, you know, their world. So I do find myself sucked in by the Kardashians.

• 21:42Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, we don't watch anything like that, really. It's my girls, especially Poppy watches a lot of like The Summer I Turned Pretty and Off Campus, was that the recent one? There's a lot of those kind of late teen dramas.

• 21:55Declan Donnelly?

  Right.

• 21:56Ant McPartlin?

  On my planner. My algorithm thinks I'm a fan of those shows. So it just offers me those kind of shows all of a sudden. So I've got to really sift through those shows to get to the shows that I actually like. That's the problem with having a lot of people in the household using the same account is they all think it's one person.

• 22:14Declan Donnelly?

  Do you have a guilty TV secret?

• 22:16Ant McPartlin?

  Um, I don't know if I do, actually.

• 22:19Declan Donnelly?

  A bit of Love Island?

• 22:20Ant McPartlin?

  No, no. I'll watch, I used to watch a lot of Love Island because the girls used to watch it. So we'd watch a bit of it together. But I haven't seen Love Island for a while. Have you?

• 22:30Declan Donnelly?

  I like a bit of Love Island.

• 22:31Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, I know you do. Do you still watch it though?

• 22:34Declan Donnelly?

  No, not religiously.

• 22:35Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, that's the thing.

• 22:37Speaker 06

  Quite a commitment.

• 22:38Declan Donnelly?

  It is quite a commitment. I can't do that and the Kardashians.

• 22:41Ant McPartlin?

  No, you can't.

• 22:42Declan Donnelly?

  I haven't got time.

• 22:45Declan Donnelly?

  I have a beautiful postcard.

• 22:48Declan Donnelly?

  Look at that cherry blossom.

• 22:49Speaker 06

  Oh, lovely.

• 22:51Speaker 05

  Gorgeous.

• 22:51Declan Donnelly?

  I don't know why there's a bus parked under there. That postcard really spoilt the photo.

• 22:55Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, why?

• 22:57Declan Donnelly?

  It's from Claire in Chesterley Street. That is not Chesterley Street.

• 23:00Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, I love Claire in Chesterley Street.

• 23:01Declan Donnelly?

  Hi, I'm Deck in Heckler's Corner.

• 23:03Speaker 05

  Hey. Hey.

• 23:05Ant McPartlin?

  Hey.

• 23:05Declan Donnelly?

  Hey. I was behind on the pod by quite a few episodes, so I've been catching up. Definitely an eight banana rating from me, but my two-year-old son Ethan is not impressed. He keeps running up to the TV shouting, "No more!", and switching the TV off. I put you guys back on and he keeps doing the same. So unfortunately, I think it is a zero banana rating from him. I think if you sing Wheels on the Bus, it may change to an eight banana rating.

• 23:38Declan Donnelly?

  With you both having young children, I'm wondering what the worst public tantrum your kids have ever had and what was it over? That's thanks from Claire in Chesterley Street.

• 23:47Ant McPartlin?

  Well, first of all, Claire, I don't take that personally because that's exactly what Wilder does. If there's something on the TV that he doesn't like, he's two as well, he goes, "Off, off!". If it's not Peppa Pig or Ben and Holly, everything else is off. Even one of the England games, one of the earlier England games in the World Cup where we kicked off at five o'clock, I think it was. Um, we all sat down, everybody was sitting, watching the TV and he just walked in front of the screen and just covered it up with his hands going, "Off, off!", because it wasn't what he liked. So you can't take it personally when it comes to a two-year-old's TV taste.

• 24:22Declan Donnelly?

  I don't think my kids have ever had one of those really bad, like supermarket aisle tantrums. That you, you know, you see them ones with kids lying on the floor in a supermarket aisle because they're not allowed a packet of Pombas.

• 24:35Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 24:36Declan Donnelly?

  I don't think I've had that.

• 24:38Ant McPartlin?

  No, I don't, I actually. I still think we should do a kids' TV series. A kids' animated series.

• 24:46Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, I agree.

• 24:47Ant McPartlin?

  Do we tell you this, Hecklers? We had an idea years ago that we were going to do uh, an animated series where our dogs live next door to one another. And you see our legs, but a bit like the old Tom and Jerry's where you never see the top half, but you hear our voices, see our legs, but you see our dogs. And then they get up to mischief with other famous people's dogs. Uh, so we see, so it's like, it's like a stellar street of famous people's dogs. And it's animated.

• 25:15Speaker 06

  That's so cute.

• 25:17Ant McPartlin?

  We might do that. We might get, might do a little development on that.

• 25:21Declan Donnelly?

  If you've got any ideas for what pets you think famous people would have, um, send them in to us, hangingoutabellabox.com, and we may put them in the hypothetical TV show that we're about to develop.

• 25:34Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 25:34Speaker 06

  Someone's got to have a hamster.

• 25:36Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, yeah.

• 25:36Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, Julio P has got a snake. I know that for a fact. Well, I don't know for, it's not a fact. Just in my head, Julio P has a snake.

• 25:45Speaker 06

  Yeah, he would have like a ferret. Chris Martin, probably.

• 25:48Ant McPartlin?

  Chris Martin's got a ferret, yeah, absolutely. That's right.

• 25:51Declan Donnelly?

  That's good.

• 25:52Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 25:52Declan Donnelly?

  Jamie Oliver's got a golden retriever.

• 25:56Ant McPartlin?

  Alison Hammond has a parrot that talks like a... Cat TV has a cat.

• 26:03Declan Donnelly?

  Cat TV has a cat.

• 26:06Ant McPartlin?

  Anyway, we'll pitch it, we'll pitch it soon. Yeah, it's all there. It's all there. That's it.

• 26:10Declan Donnelly?

  But who is their nemesis?

• 26:14Ant McPartlin?

  Who's just, who's nemesis?

• 26:15Declan Donnelly?

  The animals. Maybe Simon Cowell has got a sinister little pussy cat.

• 26:22Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, I agree.

• 26:24Speaker 06

  Like a white fluffy one or one with no fur.

• 26:27Ant McPartlin?

  One-eyed cat.

• 26:28Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, a patch.

• 26:29Ant McPartlin?

  Yes.

• 26:30Declan Donnelly?

  An eye patch.

• 26:31Ant McPartlin?

  Great. Okay. I'll pitch it to you next week.

• 26:37Declan Donnelly?

  Well, I think that's all we've got time for.

• 26:38Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, that is. It's really good. I do like the postcard, um, pod, don't you?

• 26:42Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, if you've got any more postcards for where you are on your holidays, send them in to us, uh, hangingoutabellabox.com and we'll read them out here and have some holiday chat.

• 26:51Ant McPartlin?

  And tell us where you are listening from. If you are on holiday, you can be our foreign correspondence. Please, hangingoutabellabox.com.

• 26:58Declan Donnelly?

  We'll be back on Thursday with the main pod. Remember to give us a follow, a like and a comment wherever you're listening or watching. And we'll see you on Thursday for the main show. Until then.

• 27:11Ant McPartlin?

  Respect, guys.

• 27:13Declan Donnelly?

  See you Thursday.

• 27:14Ant McPartlin?

  See ya.

• 27:14Declan Donnelly?

  Bye.

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