Ant's Icy Jewellery & Dec’s Beloved Chocolate Limes

On this week’s bonus episode, the boys file, pile, or shred your comments, Ant pitches an ice cold jewellery idea, and one listener has a controversial take on Dec’s favourite sweet treat. The boys debate whether their friendship is actually a showmance, Ant almost flirts with us and Dec shares some top tips for glasses wearers everywhere. Plus, we put chocolate to the ultimate taste test in the studio, following the recommendation of a Belgian chocolate connoisseur (we promise we’re not just using this as a guise to eat chocolate on the show 👀) ----- 01:08 - File, Pile or Shred 03:10- A Private Chef 05:20 - Guerilla Marketing Tattoo 08:10 - Don’t be a Tony 11:35 - A Very Controversial Opinion 15:20 - Ultimate Chocolate Test 18:45 - Uncool or Cool? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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• 0:00Speaker 00

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• 0:30Speaker 01

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• 0:46Speaker 02

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• 1:26Declan Donnelly?

  Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the hang on for another bonus episode of hanging out with him and me. We have got some admin on the desk here that hasn't been gone through.

• 1:36Ant McPartlin?

  Again, we're doing this again.

• 1:38Declan Donnelly?

  We've got a file pile, a pile pile.

• 1:40Ant McPartlin?

  And a pile, a pile of paper.

• 1:41Declan Donnelly?

  And under the desk.

• 1:43Ant McPartlin?

  A shredder.

• 1:44Declan Donnelly?

  A shredder for any that we think are nonsense. We can just shred them here and then. There are a lot of notes from listeners and viewers, a lot of comments from a lot of the pods that we have to go through and decide what we're going to do with them. File, pile or shred?

• 1:58Ant McPartlin?

  I think we filed.

• 2:00Declan Donnelly?

  Too much.

• 2:01Ant McPartlin?

  Too much.

• 2:02Declan Donnelly?

  Because you've still got to deal with it further down the line.

• 2:04Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, you do. You do.

• 2:06Declan Donnelly?

  At least with my piles, I just don't look at them very much.

• 2:09Ant McPartlin?

  Right, there is that, yeah. Just pile it and then we'll just.

• 2:12Declan Donnelly?

  Pile it.

• 2:12Ant McPartlin?

  We'll step over it.

• 2:13Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 2:13Ant McPartlin?

  Or shred it. Pile it or shred it. Unless we really think it's great. That's the only reason we've got to file it.

• 2:19Declan Donnelly?

  Okay.

• 2:19Ant McPartlin?

  All right.

• 2:20Declan Donnelly?

  Right.

• 2:20Ant McPartlin?

  We've got to be brutal, Deck.

• 2:21Declan Donnelly?

  Let's get on with it. Thank you, by the way, for all of your comments.

• 2:24Ant McPartlin?

  Oh.

• 2:25Declan Donnelly?

  All of you.

• 2:26Ant McPartlin?

  Thank you, by the way.

• 2:30Declan Donnelly?

  Wow. Are you okay? Is there anything you want to talk about?

• 2:34Ant McPartlin?

  I'm hot. I don't like the heat.

• 2:36Declan Donnelly?

  No.

• 2:37Ant McPartlin?

  I don't like, I'm not very good with the heat.

• 2:38Declan Donnelly?

  You're not, are you?

• 2:39Ant McPartlin?

  I'm not. It makes us angry.

• 2:41Declan Donnelly?

  Does it? Oh, no.

• 2:43Ant McPartlin?

  It does. It just makes us angry. It does. I can't help it. I'm not, I can't regulate me.

• 2:48Declan Donnelly?

  My moods.

• 2:50Ant McPartlin?

  No, not my moods, my heat. Very well.

• 2:52Declan Donnelly?

  Right.

• 2:53Ant McPartlin?

  I saw a travel hack on Instagram.

• 2:56Declan Donnelly?

  And you love a travel hack.

• 2:57Ant McPartlin?

  I do like your travel hack. So what you do is you get a necklace, right? So like, why are you looking at me like that, sexy? You get a necklace, all right? I can wear a necklace.

• 3:06Declan Donnelly?

  I made you a necklace from a chain of shells.

• 3:09Ant McPartlin?

  Well, it's not a chain of shells, but if you get, if you get the, yeah.

• 3:13Declan Donnelly?

  Shut up.

• 3:13Ant McPartlin?

  You get the metal chain from a necklace.

• 3:15Declan Donnelly?

  Put it in the freezer?

• 3:16Ant McPartlin?

  No, you put it all over some ice cube trays. So you dip a little bit in the ice cube tray like that. So it goes like this. If you, if you just listen, I'm kind of dipping it in and out of the ice cube tray.

• 3:26Declan Donnelly?

  Like a tiny roller coaster.

• 3:27Ant McPartlin?

  Then you pour water in, then you put it in the freezer, then you take it out and pull them all out. And it's a chain of ice cubes. That. Why haven't, why haven't you made that for me, Dad?

• 3:39Declan Donnelly?

  It sounds a faffy.

• 3:41Ant McPartlin?

  Faffy?

• 3:42Declan Donnelly?

  Faffy.

• 3:43Ant McPartlin?

  Sounds fabulous?

• 3:44Declan Donnelly?

  It sounds fa.

• 3:46Ant McPartlin?

  Fabulous, I think you'll find.

• 3:48Declan Donnelly?

  It sounds faffy and wet.

• 3:50Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, that's all. Oh, closes down.

• 3:53Declan Donnelly?

  No, you can't go for, for lunch.

• 3:54Speaker 05

  You like sweat patches.

• 3:55Declan Donnelly?

  Yes.

• 3:56Speaker 05

  Wet t-shirt.

• 3:57Declan Donnelly?

  You haven't thought this through.

• 3:58Ant McPartlin?

  I'm not wearing a t-shirt at this point.

• 4:00Declan Donnelly?

  What are you wearing?

• 4:01Ant McPartlin?

  I'm naked.

• 4:03Declan Donnelly?

  And so you've just got ice cubes running down your nippy nips?

• 4:05Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 4:05Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, gosh. This is taking a turn.

• 4:09Ant McPartlin?

  I just didn't think I could dress like that today. I could get kicked out of the podcast studio.

• 4:15Ant McPartlin?

  And it wouldn't last very long, would it?

• 4:17Declan Donnelly?

  No, it wouldn't.

• 4:17Ant McPartlin?

  Let's face it.

• 4:18Declan Donnelly?

  Come on.

• 4:18Ant McPartlin?

  Right, put your specs on.

• 4:19Declan Donnelly?

  Mrs. Kim Durham.

• 4:20Ant McPartlin?

  Hi, Kim.

• 4:21Declan Donnelly?

  No one acknowledging that Simon Cowell came to the decision to stop doing boring things whilst at lunch with Aunt and Deck? Was there ever another lunch?

• 4:31Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, I get, I get it. Took me a little while then.

• 4:34Declan Donnelly?

  Well, we have.

• 4:35Ant McPartlin?

  We have. We have had lunch with him since.

• 4:37Declan Donnelly?

  Very good thought, though.

• 4:38Ant McPartlin?

  Very good thought. Very good.

• 4:39Declan Donnelly?

  From Durham?

• 4:40Ant McPartlin?

  But no, we have had lunch with him. Not dinners. We haven't had a dinner with him. We have met him various times in social occasions. So for that, I don't think we're boring. Actually, Kim.

• 4:54Declan Donnelly?

  We always have, I think we've told you this before, but we always have great food when we go around to Simon Cowell's house.

• 4:58Ant McPartlin?

  Jeff the Chef trips.

• 4:59Declan Donnelly?

  Jeff the Chef.

• 5:00Ant McPartlin?

  Nice.

• 5:00Declan Donnelly?

  Is a legend. Simon's chef, Jeff. Oh, and sometimes when we're doing TV shows, Jeff will send us a top box with loads of tasty treats like honeycomb chocolate.

• 5:13Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 5:14Declan Donnelly?

  Um.

• 5:14Ant McPartlin?

  Cookies.

• 5:15Declan Donnelly?

  Dubai chocolate cookies.

• 5:16Ant McPartlin?

  He made cookies on the last, I think it was the final bit in Got Talent.

• 5:20Declan Donnelly?

  It was, yeah.

• 5:20Ant McPartlin?

  And we got a Tupperware box. So I was like, oh yeah, my lot will eat this. Because I think you're going somewhere. You're, I'm not going to eat it. You have it. So I took it back. Anyway, I forgot about it. It was in my bag for three days. And I was like, oh no. So I took it out, put it on the side. Put the Tupper, the Tupperware on the side and I was going about my business in the kitchen, as you do. And I looked round and Amzie, my wife, is eating the cookie, right? And she's like, she went, not great this time, Jeff the Chef.

• 5:51Ant McPartlin?

  I feel, see, it was three days old and it'd been in my bag, sweating away.

• 5:57Ant McPartlin?

  Good letter. Good thought. Shred it.

• 6:01Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, we've dealt with it now.

• 6:02Declan Donnelly?

  We've dealt with it.

• 6:02Ant McPartlin?

  We've dealt with it. We've talked about, that's all she wants.

• 6:04Declan Donnelly?

  There we go.

• 6:05Ant McPartlin?

  Fame and notoriety from this podcast. Next up.

• 6:08Declan Donnelly?

  Janet says, Janet says, this is just a really short one.

• 6:11Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, but it's just a matter of we take turns. In life, share, learn how to share.

• 6:16Declan Donnelly?

  Janet says, loads of pictures online of Deck in shorts. Says Janet.

• 6:20Ant McPartlin?

  Prove it. Prove it. Prove it, Janet. Where's, is there, did she send a photo? Exactly. Thank you, Janet. She didn't send a photo. So how do we know he's even got legs?

• 6:33Declan Donnelly?

  I'm going to keep that in a pile to deal with later.

• 6:36Ant McPartlin?

  Hear me out. Aunt's tattoo. A QR code linking to the podcast. Emma Devonport.

• 6:42Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, Emma, that is a great idea.

• 6:44Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, it's a bit, it's a bit cringey, still, isn't it? It's a bit marketing. It's a bit like getting the tattoo of a Coca-Cola can on the side of your neck and Coke giving you money for it.

• 7:00Declan Donnelly?

  You didn't mind.

• 7:00Ant McPartlin?

  Isn't it?

• 7:01Speaker 05

  Is that a thing?

• 7:05Ant McPartlin?

  I was very specific. I'm trying to be specific.

• 7:08Declan Donnelly?

  Who did somebody do that?

• 7:08Ant McPartlin?

  I don't think anyone's done it. I just think that that's.

• 7:11Declan Donnelly?

  I thought you were having a dig at somebody there.

• 7:13Ant McPartlin?

  It's a bit like that.

• 7:14Declan Donnelly?

  Well, you didn't mind somebody sticking a rosette on a pussy, so a bit of guerrilla marketing yourself.

• 7:19Ant McPartlin?

  I'm not going to guerrilla marketing. Why would I want a guerrilla market? Is that what, marketing? Oh, guerrilla market?

• 7:25Declan Donnelly?

  Guerrilla market.

• 7:26Ant McPartlin?

  Is it? That sounds weird. Why would I want to guerrilla promote the podcast on my own body? Yeah, what are you going to, what, I've got to pay myself?

• 7:36Declan Donnelly?

  Hmm, never thought that.

• 7:37Ant McPartlin?

  Are you just going to pay me?

• 7:38Declan Donnelly?

  No, no, no, no.

• 7:39Ant McPartlin?

  But then you get benefit.

• 7:41Declan Donnelly?

  Don't know. I've not thought this one through.

• 7:42Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, we're not sure on that one, Emma. Not sure on that one.

• 7:46Declan Donnelly?

  Pile it, pile it or shred it?

• 7:47Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, shred it.

• 7:48Declan Donnelly?

  Shred it. Oh, goodness me.

• 7:49Ant McPartlin?

  Shred everything. Shred everything.

• 7:55Declan Donnelly?

  This one is from Melania. Melania?

• 7:58Ant McPartlin?

  Melania Trump? She listens? You're a listener? You're a fan? Hi.

• 8:03Declan Donnelly?

  Hi, First Lady. This will probably get lost in the comments, but I genuinely think Ant and Deck are the fittest men on the planet.

• 8:11Declan Donnelly?

  Why are you giggling?

• 8:12Speaker 05

  Because Melania Trump's written it.

• 8:16Ant McPartlin?

  What does Donald think about that?

• 8:18Declan Donnelly?

  And genuinely, their pop era is the most iconic thing in history. Eternal love and better watch out is my jam and I should be allowed to be proud of that. Eight bananas, Melania.

• 8:29Ant McPartlin?

  File it all day long.

• 8:32Declan Donnelly?

  She's having a wind-up, isn't she? That's good.

• 8:34Speaker 05

  No, I think she's, she writes a lot.

• 8:36Ant McPartlin?

  Does she?

• 8:36Speaker 05

  Yeah, she writes a lot.

• 8:37Ant McPartlin?

  Is she a big fan?

• 8:38Speaker 05

  She's a big fan.

• 8:38Ant McPartlin?

  Well, then she should stay in the file pile, shouldn't she?

• 8:41Declan Donnelly?

  File pile.

• 8:42Ant McPartlin?

  Because she talks sense. She's got good taste, talks sense. I like her. We should make her a correspondent.

• 8:49Declan Donnelly?

  Give her a job.

• 8:50Ant McPartlin?

  Give her a job on the, on the pod. Hey, this is for Deck.

• 8:56Declan Donnelly?

  Hey, this is for Deck. I'm finally joining the glasses gang. I just got myself a pair and I'm not going to lie. I am anxious about what my school friends will think, but my family love them though. Any advice? TVD for life. Um, I wouldn't care what they say. Just go for it. Why not? You rock a pair of glasses. I bet you look really cool in them. You just go for it. Do your thing. File it. Well done. TVD for life.

• 9:22Ant McPartlin?

  Deck, I'm so with you on the dishwasher. Oh, you know, it makes sense.

• 9:27Declan Donnelly?

  Yes.

• 9:28Ant McPartlin?

  Don't be a Tony. Don't be, don't be a Tony.

• 9:32Declan Donnelly?

  That's a thing. That's going to be a thing.

• 9:34Ant McPartlin?

  And stack your dishwasher the right way.

• 9:36Declan Donnelly?

  Yes.

• 9:37Ant McPartlin?

  Nikki Bell.

• 9:38Declan Donnelly?

  Yes.

• 9:38Ant McPartlin?

  Is there anything else you're really anal about?

• 9:42Declan Donnelly?

  What?

• 9:43Ant McPartlin?

  Well, Nikki Bell, you're annoying.

• 9:49Ant McPartlin?

  Because there's got to be, I mean, I would like a little bit of a, we had a straw poll last time when we talked about how you load and stack your dishwasher.

• 9:57Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 9:57Ant McPartlin?

  And it was about 50 50 in here, I think. So it must be 50 50 out there in Great Britain. I mean, not that I'm going to do like a YouGov poll.

• 10:06Declan Donnelly?

  And around the world.

• 10:07Ant McPartlin?

  And around the world. But I don't think you should be calling me a Tony just because I do it differently than you.

• 10:13Declan Donnelly?

  I think, yeah.

• 10:14Ant McPartlin?

  That I don't deserve the, the Tony slander, the Tony slur.

• 10:18Declan Donnelly?

  Is a Tony now, is that a male Karen?

• 10:20Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, and you can't say Karen anymore. So all the Tonys will be annoyed now. Now that you're bringing this up.

• 10:28Declan Donnelly?

  Can you not say Karen?

• 10:29Ant McPartlin?

  Can I say Karen anymore? Nah.

• 10:31Declan Donnelly?

  Can you not?

• 10:32Ant McPartlin?

  Nah. Because when people call Karen, they get offenders. You just go, hey, you.

• 10:39Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, isn't it a thing? Karen's got annoyed. How ironic.

• 10:46Ant McPartlin?

  What do we do with this?

• 10:47Declan Donnelly?

  I think we-

• 10:48Ant McPartlin?

  I think we shred it.

• 10:49Declan Donnelly?

  No!

• 10:49Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah. Oh no, oh!

• 10:52Declan Donnelly?

  Too late.

• 10:53Ant McPartlin?

  Too late.

• 10:54Declan Donnelly?

  Hannah Griffin says, "I've never noticed Hannah's accent before."

• 10:57Ant McPartlin?

  Eh? What? Are you mad?

• 11:01Declan Donnelly?

  You're mad, bro.

• 11:02Ant McPartlin?

  And you just cleaned your ears out.

• 11:04Declan Donnelly?

  Have your accents changed over the years?

• 11:06Ant McPartlin?

  Oh god, yeah.

• 11:07Declan Donnelly?

  I think they have.

• 11:07Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah. Mine's not as strong as it used to be. Yours is definitely not as strong as it used to be.

• 11:13Declan Donnelly?

  No, they definitely are.

• 11:14Ant McPartlin?

  If you listen to, if you go on Battle Box and you look at clips of Saturday morning, like earlier SMTV Live, you'll notice how jordia we were.

• 11:23Declan Donnelly?

  Jordia?

• 11:25Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, jordia, it's a word, it is that. And if you listen to Back to Growth or look at Back to Growth, then we're even stronger back then.

• 11:31Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 11:34Ant McPartlin?

  I know.

• 11:35Speaker 05

  Does it come back when you go home?

• 11:37Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 11:38Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, it always comes back when I go home. Or even if I'm speaking to my sister or one of my sisters on the phone, it'll, it'll get stronger.

• 11:46Declan Donnelly?

  Even that sounded quite jordian, on the phone.

• 11:48Ant McPartlin?

  On the phone.

• 11:49Declan Donnelly?

  On the phone.

• 11:51Ant McPartlin?

  I love it. Never wanted to go.

• 11:52Declan Donnelly?

  Love it. Well done. Oh, what's your name? Forgot. Hannah, Hannah Griffin.

• 11:57Ant McPartlin?

  Love it, shred you. See, this is good though. You're getting, you're getting into the vibe of the shredding. I like it.

• 12:03Declan Donnelly?

  We've dealt with this. We've dealt with that. It's gone. Let's not, let's not pile it.

• 12:07Ant McPartlin?

  "Dec talking flirty made me go weak at the knees, Caroline, but can I see Aunt Flir?"

• 12:14Declan Donnelly?

  Oh. Do, no, no, no, no. Do, no, no, no, no.

• 12:19Ant McPartlin?

  No, you can't.

• 12:23Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, I just hear the wrong-

• 12:25Speaker 05

  Caroline.

• 12:26Declan Donnelly?

  Caroline.

• 12:26Ant McPartlin?

  Caroline. Sorry Caroline, I was trying to be funny and I've ruined it. I've ruined the night. I've ruined the birthday. Sorry about that. Ruined it for the bride.

• 12:35Ant McPartlin?

  Hold on, I need to do the other half. No, it won't go in now, will it? I know, spin it round.

• 12:41Declan Donnelly?

  Yes, in you go.

• 12:44Declan Donnelly?

  Greg Milligan says, "With all due respect, Dec, chocolate limes are-"

• 12:56Ant McPartlin?

  What's it called?

• 12:57Declan Donnelly?

  Greg Milligan.

• 12:57Ant McPartlin?

  Greg, you're so right.

• 12:59Declan Donnelly?

  No, you're not.

• 12:59Ant McPartlin?

  You're so right, Greg. You're absolutely right. You're so right. They are so-

• 13:07Ant McPartlin?

  I'm gonna have to bleep all these, but I don't care. They are-

• 13:15Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, here they are. Look at these little babies. Try one.

• 13:20Ant McPartlin?

  I know, because I think, like Greg, they're-

• 13:23Declan Donnelly?

  They're not.

• 13:25Declan Donnelly?

  Mmm.

• 13:28Declan Donnelly?

  Really nice, citrusy. Mmm.

• 13:31Ant McPartlin?

  Go on then.

• 13:33Declan Donnelly?

  You get a bit of citrus at the beginning.

• 13:36Ant McPartlin?

  And then chocolate.

• 13:37Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 13:39Ant McPartlin?

  I like, I love chocolate, but why would I want citrus then chocolate? It's like eating an orange, then eating chocolate.

• 13:46Declan Donnelly?

  Like chocolate orange?

• 13:48Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, it's a good point.

• 13:50Declan Donnelly?

  Mmm. I've just got the chocolate.

• 13:54Ant McPartlin?

  But it's, but it's cheap chocolate.

• 13:58Speaker 05

  What percentage of this show do you think is just you two eating sweets?

• 14:03Ant McPartlin?

  My mouth doesn't understand what's going on.

• 14:05Declan Donnelly?

  Just go with it.

• 14:06Ant McPartlin?

  My mouth confused.

• 14:07Declan Donnelly?

  Go with it.

• 14:07Ant McPartlin?

  Do you know what I mean?

• 14:09Declan Donnelly?

  Not bad, is it? It's literally on-

• 14:15Ant McPartlin?

  Okay, I take back my several hundred.

• 14:21Declan Donnelly?

  I've had over my lifetime.

• 14:24Ant McPartlin?

  No, no, once you back, we said I swore a lot.

• 14:25Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, right.

• 14:26Ant McPartlin?

  And then it's not. It, it's just okay.

• 14:31Ant McPartlin?

  It's okay. It's okay. It's not as bad as he says.

• 14:35Declan Donnelly?

  No.

• 14:37Declan Donnelly?

  Sorry Greg.

• 14:38Ant McPartlin?

  Sorry Greg.

• 14:39Declan Donnelly?

  Agree and disagree on that one.

• 14:40Ant McPartlin?

  We're just shredding everything now.

• 14:42Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, I like it.

• 14:44Ant McPartlin?

  Right. Next is, this one. "I've always found the celebrity of Ant and Dec mysterious.

• 14:54Ant McPartlin?

  Maybe because they only do big shows on ITV, so it's enjoyable to listen to this podcast and see their carefree side align to their friendship as we like to imagine." David Graham, "What do you think people imagine about your relationship?" That's a, that's a side question.

• 15:10Declan Donnelly?

  I've never really thought of that.

• 15:12Ant McPartlin?

  What, what, what do you mean?

• 15:13Declan Donnelly?

  What people think about us.

• 15:15Ant McPartlin?

  I just think people think we're friends, don't they?

• 15:18Declan Donnelly?

  Do you think they used to be lovers? Do you think we used to be lovers?

• 15:20Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, a lot of people thought we were lovers for a while.

• 15:22Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 15:23Ant McPartlin?

  Who's to say we weren't for a while?

• 15:25Speaker 05

  Do you think some people think it's a showmance?

• 15:27Ant McPartlin?

  Showmance.

• 15:28Declan Donnelly?

  Showmance.

• 15:29Ant McPartlin?

  That's a good phrase.

• 15:30Speaker 05

  That you actually secretly hate each other.

• 15:32Ant McPartlin?

  Oh yeah, we used to get that a lot. I think there's a lot of double acts of like the seventies and eighties.

• 15:38Declan Donnelly?

  Didn't get on, really.

• 15:38Ant McPartlin?

  Didn't get on. Like, famously were really pally on screen but off screen didn't like each other. So we kind of got asked that a lot. Do you really like each other? Are you really friends? I think people are at this stage, because we've been together so long, kind of, you can't not say our friendship. So.

• 15:54Declan Donnelly?

  And that's what we always said. We think part of the reason we've been around so long is people really believe it and that our, um-

• 16:04Ant McPartlin?

  Apart from David.

• 16:05Declan Donnelly?

  Apart from David, he was sceptical. But our career is built on a friendship. It's not a friendship built on a career. So it's the, it's the right way around. It's a very solid footing.

• 16:15Ant McPartlin?

  It's very good. Very good letter. One, one, we've read it now. So we shred it now.

• 16:20Declan Donnelly?

  Oh.

• 16:22Ant McPartlin?

  Nobody's had these times. We give that good time, right? Yeah? Hi guys.

• 16:29Speaker 05

  Hi.

• 16:30Ant McPartlin?

  I'm from Belgium.

• 16:34Ant McPartlin?

  The chocolate capital city.

• 16:36Declan Donnelly?

  Now you're talking.

• 16:37Ant McPartlin?

  Do not put chocolate in the fridge. No, hold on. Put it in a cool dog place. Not for months on end, of course. Just ravage through it in a couple of days like a normal person. The taste and consistency remains better than in the fridge. Respect, guys. April de B. We've got some chocolate for you to test.

• 17:00Speaker 05

  Ready?

• 17:01Ant McPartlin?

  This is?

• 17:02Speaker 05

  Yeah. You wanna see if she's telling the truth. So that's normal and this is the fridge.

• 17:07Ant McPartlin?

  Right. Right, you open the fridge you want. I'll open the normal one. So we've said before, which is where this comes from, that we prefer chocolate in the fridge. Now this is Galaxy Chocolate. Smooth milk Galaxy chocolate, which I love.

• 17:24Declan Donnelly?

  Fridge one's fantastic.

• 17:26Ant McPartlin?

  So that's, should we both go in order then? Shall I do fridge as well?

• 17:31Declan Donnelly?

  You do a bit of fridge. Not going to need any dinner after tonight's episode.

• 17:37Ant McPartlin?

  How little to eat?

• 17:40Declan Donnelly?

  A chocolate lime and a bit of Galaxy. Oh, that's me.

• 17:45Ant McPartlin?

  That's perfect for me.

• 17:47Declan Donnelly?

  It could actually do with being colder.

• 17:48Ant McPartlin?

  It could actually do with being colder.

• 17:50Declan Donnelly?

  Now?

• 17:50Ant McPartlin?

  Now is the room temperature, Galaxy, that has been stored in a cool dog place. Okay?

• 17:58Declan Donnelly?

  I find it a bit more claggy.

• 17:59Ant McPartlin?

  Mmm, it is very claggy. Although, I know what this means. You do taste the chocolate, though.

• 18:06Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, you do actually.

• 18:07Ant McPartlin?

  I might eat less of it if it's room temperature, because I think, you have a little bit of this, and I'm just gonna eat in a little bit again just to prove my point, right? And it's cold and it's nice, but then you're chasing it because you want another one. Whereas that lingers more.

• 18:23Declan Donnelly?

  Hangs around.

• 18:24Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 18:25Declan Donnelly?

  April, you are on to something here.

• 18:27Ant McPartlin?

  You may have just turned my world upside down.

• 18:32Ant McPartlin?

  I've got a chocolate drawer in my fridge and it's a drawer. You know the drawer, have I told you this before?

• 18:36Declan Donnelly?

  The one for vegetables and-

• 18:37Ant McPartlin?

  The one for vegetables. It's full of chocolate.

• 18:41Ant McPartlin?

  The vegetables have, there's three drawers. There's a salad drawer, there's, I think it's meant to be for cheese, actually. There's a salad drawer at the bottom and then there's a vegetable drawer and then the other one is meant to be for like cheeses and stuff.

• 18:53Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, someone's doing well, aren't they? That's a fancy fridge.

• 18:55Ant McPartlin?

  Three drawers.

• 19:00Ant McPartlin?

  What can I say?

• 19:02Ant McPartlin?

  I've got a good fridge. And the other drawer is full to the brim of chocolate.

• 19:06Declan Donnelly?

  Mmm. But now what?

• 19:08Ant McPartlin?

  Which mostly I buy.

• 19:09Declan Donnelly?

  Now what? Now what?

• 19:10Ant McPartlin?

  Now, if I really wanna curb my choc- chocolate dependency, which is what this is right now, I think I'm gonna just leave it out of the fridge.

• 19:20Declan Donnelly?

  I agree. I think April is on to something.

• 19:23Ant McPartlin?

  Right, I'm gonna do a little bit of a test for you, April, and get back to you on this. And we will circle back. So this will go into the pile, a pile, this, with this one? The green one. Let's go into the green one. Well done, April. That was a very good letter. I'll keep these chocolate later.

• 19:40Declan Donnelly?

  I've got one here from Alex Paris Copley Wilks.

• 19:44Ant McPartlin?

  What? Not Alice from Paris.

• 19:48Declan Donnelly?

  No?

• 19:48Ant McPartlin?

  French, yeah.

• 19:49Declan Donnelly?

  Alex Paris Copley Wilks.

• 19:51Ant McPartlin?

  Ah, it's great. What a great name. Alice Paris Copley Wilks.

• 19:54Declan Donnelly?

  Hello, Alex Paris Copley Wilks. Nice to meet you.

• 19:58Declan Donnelly?

  "My husband recently bought some slip-in Skechers trainers and felt super cool and trendy. Until my friend told him that Skechers are famously uncool and that as a 42-year-old man, he's not nearly old enough for them. As a trainer connoisseur, Ant, what do you think of Skechers? And is my husband cool, stroke trendy, or does he need to buy something else? Respect, guys. Alice Paris Copley Wilks."

• 20:23Ant McPartlin?

  He is neither. He's neither trendy-

• 20:26Declan Donnelly?

  Cool nor trendy?

• 20:27Ant McPartlin?

  He's neither cool nor trendy-

• 20:28Declan Donnelly?

  Uh-oh.

• 20:29Ant McPartlin?

  Or all age. You know, he doesn't, he, like, wear what you wanna, I mean, I kind of made of a "uh" noise when you mentioned slip-in Skechers.

• 20:37Declan Donnelly?

  I did, you did.

• 20:39Ant McPartlin?

  Come on, he's only 42. If you can bend down and put your entire shoe laces, keep doing it.

• 20:44Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 20:45Ant McPartlin?

  Because once you give up on that-

• 20:47Declan Donnelly?

  What else are you gonna give up on?

• 20:48Ant McPartlin?

  What else are you gonna give up on? Eh?

• 20:49Speaker 05

  Let's look at your shoes today.

• 20:50Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, I wear vans.

• 20:53Declan Donnelly?

  Slip-ons.

• 20:55Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, but they're not the ones where they stay firm at the back. I know exactly the one she means. Yeah, the slip-on vans. Mine are cool and trendy, thanks, Fiona. Cool and trendy!

• 21:05Speaker 05

  Face them as long as you can and look at them.

• 21:11Declan Donnelly?

  That's a very good point.

• 21:12Ant McPartlin?

  Very good point. But my point is.

• 21:14Declan Donnelly?

  Do as I say, not as I do.

• 21:16Ant McPartlin?

  No, I'm wearing these today, but I don't always wear these.

• 21:18Declan Donnelly?

  No.

• 21:19Ant McPartlin?

  Clearly, they're his... He thinks he's cool and trendy. Wearing Skechers does not make you cool and trendy. But if you need to wear a pair of trainers where you can just slip on in, then, you know, if you can't be laced, not be trainers, then they're a very good choice.

• 21:38Declan Donnelly?

  I hope that's helped. Addis Paris, Copley Williams.

• 21:42Ant McPartlin?

  She should be a correspondent.

• 21:44Declan Donnelly?

  Yes.

• 21:45Ant McPartlin?

  Final one today. We'll have to come back to this mountain.

• 21:48Declan Donnelly?

  There's a big pile here. We're gonna have to do more of these. Jemima, another file pile episode.

• 21:53Ant McPartlin?

  This one says, "I'm a postie and most streets don't have a house number thirteen."

• 21:59Declan Donnelly?

  What?

• 22:00Ant McPartlin?

  What?

• 22:00Declan Donnelly?

  No.

• 22:01Ant McPartlin?

  Megan Chambers. I sent that in. I'm just not... I'm not saying a word out randomly. Her name, I randomly...

• 22:08Declan Donnelly?

  I don't believe that.

• 22:10Ant McPartlin?

  Most streets don't have it. Well, Megan's the postie. Are you a postie?

• 22:16Declan Donnelly?

  I wonder where...

• 22:17Ant McPartlin?

  Lola, Fiona, are you? Are you sexy? No, you're not. So...

• 22:21Declan Donnelly?

  Have you got a thirteen in your street?

• 22:23Speaker 05

  I think I do. I've never checked. I'm gonna have a look tonight. Yeah, I live at number thirteen.

• 22:27Declan Donnelly?

  What?

• 22:30Declan Donnelly?

  Sexy!

• 22:32Ant McPartlin?

  Sexy lives at number thirteen? Course she does.

• 22:36Declan Donnelly?

  And she is...

• 22:37Ant McPartlin?

  She's from the wrong side of the tracks.

• 22:40Declan Donnelly?

  We should leave it there.

• 22:41Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, we should.

• 22:42Declan Donnelly?

  We haven't got any more time for any more. Please do keep them coming in, all of your comments, all of your letters. Keep them coming in. We love doing this. Hanging out at bellbox.com, we'll do some more very soon.

• 22:53Ant McPartlin?

  I didn't... I realised number thirteen, I didn't do anything with. Tread? We've talked about it. Come on.

• 22:57Declan Donnelly?

  No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

• 22:59Ant McPartlin?

  Why?

• 22:59Declan Donnelly?

  File that. We need to come back to that. Because if anybody lives at number thirteen, you've got to let us know.

• 23:03Ant McPartlin?

  But sexy's is.

• 23:05Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, yeah. Forget about that. Well, anybody else?

• 23:08Ant McPartlin?

  Right. You've changed my mind today, guys, with the chocolate. Thank you very much.

• 23:13Declan Donnelly?

  Changed his life. Changed his mind and changed his life.

• 23:15Ant McPartlin?

  Been very, very informative.

• 23:16Declan Donnelly?

  Thank you for listening. We'll be back on Thursday with another app. Until then, respect, guys.

• 23:22Ant McPartlin?

  Respect, guys.

• 23:23Declan Donnelly?

  See ya.

• 23:25Declan Donnelly?

  Just slip into them shoes and get out of here.

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