Pod Insights Hanging Out With Ant & Dec Ant’s Face At The Coronation & Dec’s Fainting Prank That Shocked The Nation About this episode Spring has sprung, the boys have got their bunny ears on, and the eggs are out - it’s our Easter episode of Hanging Out 🐣
Dec shares the April Fools on SM:TV Live that massively backfired (did you spot our April Fools yesterday…?) Ant shares his unique way of cracking an Easter egg, and we have our very first Signed Addressed Envelopes (SAEs) arrive for Ant to share the price of his pants and jet skis!
Ant also addresses his viral facial expressions at the Coronation and Dec reveals his HATRED of fancy dress. We’ve also got banana ratings, your tattoo suggestions and of course the postbag - keep them coming at [email protected] !
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00:00 - Coming Up01:00 - Happy Easter02:50 - Dec’s hates fancy dress04:00 - April Fool’s08:25 - Ant’s proud moment10:00 - Supervet to the rescue!14:05 - ASMR Chocolate eggs17:45 - Dec’s Diary21:40 - Banana rating TV/Film27:30 - UK Listener Map31:30 - SAE35:30 - Tattoo Suggestions40:15 - Postbag
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0:59 Declan Donnelly? Coming up on today's show, we find Ant's face in the most disturbing place.
1:04 Ant McPartlin? My face is not a dog's... I eventually address my face I pulled at the coronation. I don't know whether I was pretending to be one of the gogos on the... on the front of Westminster Abbey.
1:16 Declan Donnelly? And I address an April Fool's trick that went horribly wrong. We thought Deck was dead.
1:23 Ant McPartlin? Deck meddles with my banana rating system. We don't want to shake it up, we're just getting it going. We don't want to change. We like the bananas.
1:30 Declan Donnelly? And we discover a cracking new use for Ant's head.
1:35 Ant McPartlin? And I get offered a job at the palace. Enjoy the show.
1:43 Declan Donnelly? Hello.
1:45 Speaker 04 Greetings.
1:46 Declan Donnelly? Hi.
1:47 Speaker 04 Greetings.
1:48 Declan Donnelly? Oh, little chicks everywhere. Hello, little chickies.
1:52 Ant McPartlin? Happy Easter, everybody.
1:54 Declan Donnelly? Hello. Good morning, good evening. Welcome back to the hangout for another Hanging Out with him and me.
1:59 Ant McPartlin? Happy Easter, Deck.
2:00 Declan Donnelly? They're on back to front.
2:01 Ant McPartlin? What?
2:02 Declan Donnelly? You've got your ears on back to front. No wonder you can't hear anything.
2:05 Ant McPartlin? Happy Easter, Deck.
2:06 Declan Donnelly? Can you hear that?
2:07 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, I can hear better through these ears than I can these ears.
2:09 Declan Donnelly? Can hear in those ones.
2:10 Ant McPartlin? Easter is my favourite holiday of the year.
2:13 Declan Donnelly? Is it really?
2:14 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, it is.
2:15 Declan Donnelly? How come?
2:16 Ant McPartlin? Because the sun's starting to come out. I love spring. I love the flowers coming out. And I love chocolate. I love chocolate. I love it so much. You know I do.
2:26 Declan Donnelly? The true meaning of Easter.
2:28 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, Easter eggs. Exactly. I love it. I mean, I love chocolate throughout the year, but I particularly love Easter eggs.
2:35 Declan Donnelly? You can't be Easter eggs, can you? Straight out of the fridge.
2:37 Ant McPartlin? Out of the fridge, crack it in your mouth, and there's something about the thinness of the chocolate egg when you crack it in your mouth. It's that shape.
2:45 Declan Donnelly? Yeah.
2:45 Ant McPartlin? Maybe it just fits the roof of your mouth better than a than a block of chocolate.
2:49 Declan Donnelly? Eggs in general for me.
2:50 Ant McPartlin? Well, no, not normal eggs.
2:52 Declan Donnelly? Anything.
2:52 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, I know. Egg related, you love.
2:54 Declan Donnelly? Anything in the shape of an egg, I'm in.
2:55 Ant McPartlin? Not wearing your ears?
2:57 Declan Donnelly? No.
2:57 Ant McPartlin? Oh, okay. Killjoy.
3:00 Declan Donnelly? Do I have to?
3:01 Ant McPartlin? No, you don't have to. Depends how fun you are. You're obviously not feeling very fun today. He's not a fun guy today. Everybody else has got ears on here.
3:09 Declan Donnelly? Sexy's got them, Nice has got them, Heckler's Corner, they've all got their ears. Look, there's little chicks everywhere. Maybe I'm I'm being a bit left out. Look, Fiona's got one little ear like that.
3:20 Speaker 05 Shy.
3:21 Declan Donnelly? One little spot.
3:22 Ant McPartlin? She's a shy bunny.
3:23 Declan Donnelly? She's got one one little bent ear there in the corner. Shall I put them on?
3:27 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, go on then. That'll do. Yeah, you're happy Easter. Happy Easter, everybody. What is wrong?
3:34 Declan Donnelly? I just, I don't go for things.
3:35 Ant McPartlin? You're dressed up for World Book Day. You like that? You're dressed up as the fox?
3:39 Declan Donnelly? Yeah.
3:40 Ant McPartlin? You get dressed up every Halloween. You love Halloween. He hates dressing up. One thing about Deck, uh, he hates fancy dress. Hates it.
3:47 Declan Donnelly? Hates it.
3:47 Ant McPartlin? Yeah. Doesn't find the fun in it at all.
3:50 Declan Donnelly? Hate it. If I get a invite through and people go, oh, I saw somebody's having a party. Oh, it's fancy dress. Why would you do that to people?
4:00 Ant McPartlin? I always said Woody Woody from Toy Story would be a very good fancy dress outfit for Deck. Wouldn't it though? It would.
4:07 Declan Donnelly? There's a snake in my boot.
4:08 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, see? He knows the words.
4:11 Ant McPartlin? And I can be Buzz Lightyear. Yes.
4:13 Declan Donnelly? That would be good.
4:15 Ant McPartlin? Let's do a Halloween special. I'll be Buzz Lightyear, you can be, um, Woody from Toy Story. Why are you doing that?
4:21 Declan Donnelly? Oh, because already I'm dreading it.
4:23 Ant McPartlin? Okay, well, we'll put it out to the viewers. If you'd like to see it, just let us know. Buzz Lightyear and Woody.
4:28 Declan Donnelly? Or if you can't be bothered to watch it, just let us know and we won't do it.
4:32 Ant McPartlin? They're definitely gonna wanna watch us do that now. Definitely. Before we get cracking, can I just say?
4:37 Declan Donnelly? Cracking.
4:38 Ant McPartlin? What?
4:39 Declan Donnelly? Cracking.
4:40 Ant McPartlin? Why are you saying it like that? Before we get cracking.
4:43 Declan Donnelly? Cracking.
4:43 Ant McPartlin? Why are you saying it like that?
4:45 Declan Donnelly? Easter.
4:46 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, I know.
4:48 Ant McPartlin? Before we get started.
4:50 Declan Donnelly? Cracking.
4:51 Ant McPartlin? Can I just say, April Fools.
4:53 Declan Donnelly? Ah.
4:54 Ant McPartlin? The picture of Deck with a beard yesterday was photoshopped. It wasn't real because we all know he can't grow a beard.
5:00 Declan Donnelly? No, I can grow a beard.
5:02 Ant McPartlin? What?
5:02 Declan Donnelly? I just haven't got time at the moment.
5:03 Ant McPartlin? He doesn't have time to grow a beard.
5:05 Declan Donnelly? But, um, I hope we fooled you with our April Fool, with my, uh, big bushy beard. Sorry if, uh, I upset you with any of that, but, uh...
5:15 Ant McPartlin? You did look very rugged and dishy though. You should grow one.
5:17 Declan Donnelly? Thank you.
5:17 Ant McPartlin? If you could. If you could.
5:19 Declan Donnelly? I can.
5:20 Ant McPartlin? Do you like April Fools? We got into trouble, yes, go to me on Saturday mornings.
5:24 Declan Donnelly? We got in real trouble.
5:25 Ant McPartlin? When we did an April Fools.
5:27 Declan Donnelly? Live on Saturday morning.
5:29 Ant McPartlin? Because we realised that the Saturday morning, uh, was gonna be April Fools and we, we, I think we realised on the Friday.
5:37 Declan Donnelly? It was Friday night we realised.
5:38 Ant McPartlin? Oh my God, it's April Fool's tomorrow. We have to do something.
5:40 Declan Donnelly? We've got to do something on the show. I'm like, we're probably never gonna be on air on April Fools again because obviously it goes on.
5:46 Ant McPartlin? Yeah.
5:47 Declan Donnelly? A day every year and we weren't gonna be there seven years later to do it again. This is an amazing opportunity. We must do something on April Fools Day, live on Saturday morning, kids' telly.
5:56 Ant McPartlin? And then we all sat down and went, what can we do? And everything we thought of had been done before was too obvious and was, you know, kind of see-through. You could tell it was an April Fools gag and we were scratching our heads for a while and Deck went, I know, I've faint.
6:11 Ant McPartlin? What do you mean? I'll pretend faint on the telly and then I'll say April Fools.
6:17 Declan Donnelly? So I think we would do, was it like we were doing the postbag dance or something? And I'd go a bit queasy, I'd go a bit queasy and then I fainted. And then we did it that the camera goes to the side and the floor manager rushes in. We wanted to make it look really, really real. So then we did it, went to Sabrina the Teenage Witch or whatever it was. And we were in the studio preparing for the next bit and the executive producer runs in and goes, "The phones are going crazy. People are ringing up. Is he all right? Is it?" And.
6:44 Ant McPartlin? But the kids were really upset watching it. I think there was complaints off com eventually.
6:50 Declan Donnelly? So we had to do it. We had to do April Fools when we came back and I'm sorry if anybody was upset by that. And then obviously after that, there was a bit of a press storm around it. So this was before social media.
7:03 Ant McPartlin? Official complaints after it.
7:04 Declan Donnelly? I went back to Newcastle the following day for the weekend and I got off the plane in Newcastle and I was walking past the newsagent and on the front of the local paper up there was the headline in the Sunday Sun. And it was just said, "We thought Dec was dead."
7:21 Declan Donnelly? And there's like little kids on the front crying. I was like, "Oh my god."
7:26 Declan Donnelly? This has gone so badly wrong.
7:30 Ant McPartlin? This is an advert for Santander who understand that getting started on a goal isn't easy. And embracing messy beginnings is how progress happens.
7:39 Declan Donnelly? Now, I was thinking, you know, we talked the other week about when starting SMTV Live. How it was chaotic and.
7:44 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, messy.
7:45 Declan Donnelly? Messy.
7:45 Ant McPartlin? Messy beginnings.
7:46 Declan Donnelly? How we didn't know really what we were doing for a couple of months before it became a hit. I was thinking though about previous to that, your Biker Grove audition story. I mean, that nearly didn't happen because you didn't want to take the first step in audition for the show.
8:00 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, I was too. So what happened was I was too nervous. I'd got, I'd done a first audition at school when the producers came to the school. And then I got a letter saying, "Come for a second audition, the big proper audition down at the studio." But I got too nervous and I hid the letter and I wasn't going to audition because the nerves got the better of us and I wasn't even going to start. But my friend. Told my mother about it and she frogmarched me down there and said, just take, just take a chance, take that first step. And if you don't want it, if, if you get the job and you don't want it, that's fair enough. But if you don't take that first step, you'll never know and you'll kick yourself forever.
8:37 Declan Donnelly? And that would be the worst thing is not knowing.
8:40 Ant McPartlin? Yeah.
8:40 Declan Donnelly? When, wondering whether you'd have got the part if you hadn't have done it.
8:44 Ant McPartlin? If I'd have taken that first step.
8:45 Declan Donnelly? This podcast wouldn't have existed.
8:46 Ant McPartlin? And if I'd waited for the perfect time, I would never have done it.
8:48 Declan Donnelly? Yeah, well, there is never a perfect time.
8:49 Ant McPartlin? There's never a perfect time for anything. You've just got to do it. Just get started and see where it takes you. And that's what Santander is all about. Understanding that beginnings don't have to be perfect and get it started is what it's all about. Santander, it starts here.
9:04 Declan Donnelly? What you been up to?
9:06 Ant McPartlin? Oh, okay. I've passed the Easter chat.
9:10 Declan Donnelly? I just know what to say about it. It's lovely outside.
9:12 Ant McPartlin? What have I been up to? Yeah, I've been out in the spring.
9:15 Declan Donnelly? Yeah.
9:15 Ant McPartlin? Lovely, playing with the kids in the, in the garden, which is lovely.
9:18 Declan Donnelly? Makes such a difference when the sun comes out.
9:19 Ant McPartlin? It's lovely, isn't it? I absolutely adore it. I'll tell you what I did do.
9:22 Declan Donnelly? Go on.
9:23 Ant McPartlin? My youngest daughter, Poppy, has just passed the driving test. First time, by the way. Congrats. Woo, well done, Poppy. And she is driving to school, which is wonderful. So no more.
9:35 Declan Donnelly? God, it's mad, isn't it?
9:36 Ant McPartlin? No more school runs. It's crazy. So we wave her off in the morning, but she's got that thing, you know, when you first pass your driving test where you have the fear of running out of petrol? And she keeps ringing us when she gets to school. It's, it's, it's gone down a bar. It's gone, I said, you'll be fine. So once it hits red, you'll be like, you've got like 20 miles, 30 miles. It's gone down again. So I had to take her to the garage last night. It's a very proud moment, this. Had to take her to the garage and show her how to put petrol in the car. I know, it's nice, isn't it?
10:01 Declan Donnelly? Something you don't even think about, isn't it?
10:03 Ant McPartlin? Yeah. She said, what do I do? I've got no idea what to do. I said, well, have you never looked up from the backseat in the, all the years I've been driving?
10:09 Declan Donnelly? No, they don't.
10:10 Ant McPartlin? Clearly not. So, yeah, we went in, I explained to her that, did you know this? You know this. But if you look at your dashboard and where you can see the little petrol sign on your, on your dash, there's an arrow pointing either left or right. So the way it's pointing is where your fuel cap is on the car.
10:29 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, she didn't know that. Not many people do know that.
10:31 Declan Donnelly? You see, we've got handy hints as well.
10:33 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, you see.
10:34 Declan Donnelly? What a podcast this is.
10:35 Ant McPartlin? So I explained that to her. So she was like, it's on the right hand side. I said, that's your side. So pull in with your.
10:39 Declan Donnelly? Pull up the thing.
10:40 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, pull up with, so the pumps are on your right hand side. So she, um, put the petrol in, went and paid for herself, signed her up for a point. So every time she fills up with petrol, she gets points.
10:49 Declan Donnelly? What a points maker.
10:50 Ant McPartlin? Yeah. Money off, money off.
10:52 Declan Donnelly? Money off.
10:52 Ant McPartlin? Money off. It was good. That's it, really. Apart from that, quite quiet, but a very proud moment.
10:58 Declan Donnelly? Oh, that's lovely.
10:59 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, it's good, isn't it? You?
11:00 Declan Donnelly? Say where I've been, Rocky had a bit of a mishap on a walk, so he's hurt his back again. And miniature Dachshunds have very fragile backs.
11:07 Ant McPartlin? Yeah.
11:07 Declan Donnelly? So I had to take him down to see Super Vet.
11:10 Ant McPartlin? Noel.
11:11 Declan Donnelly? Noel Fitzpatrick.
11:13 Ant McPartlin? The actual Super Vet.
11:14 Declan Donnelly? The actual Super Vet. So Noel operated on his, I did actually. Noel operated on his back about 10 years ago. And so we took him back down to see Noel.
11:21 Ant McPartlin? Right.
11:22 Declan Donnelly? And you turn up at the place, I have to say, it is incredible down there. The work that they do.
11:27 Ant McPartlin? Right, yeah.
11:28 Declan Donnelly? And the people down there, and the expertise that they have down there is second to none. And I had a real Super Vet moment when I turned up. And we pulled in the car park and I got the car and I was walking in and out of the doors came a dog and it had like a bandage around one arm. And three legs on the ground and on the fourth leg was a wheel. And he was walking along and wheeling his other leg along. And he was like, is that not just the most Super Vet thing you've ever seen? I was like, it was like I was in an episode of Super Vet. But the dog was dead happy and his tail was wagging. And it's like, he'd obviously been through something really traumatic. But Noel and the team had done this amazing work, fixed this dog and he was off with his little wheel, toddling along.
12:08 Declan Donnelly? It was like, it was exactly that. It was kind of teared me up. Also, you kind of go, oh my God, this dog now has a new lease of life.
12:15 Ant McPartlin? Tears of joy.
12:16 Declan Donnelly? Tears of joy. So yeah, we took Rocky down. Noel was brilliant with him as per MRI'd him, looked at his spine, all of that. And so he's on rest medication.
12:27 Ant McPartlin? Right.
12:27 Declan Donnelly? He's on the mend.
12:28 Ant McPartlin? Good.
12:28 Declan Donnelly? Yeah, shout out to Noel and all the people down at Fitzpatrick for doing such an incredible job. It's just amazing what they do down there.
12:34 Ant McPartlin? Are you gonna be on the telly?
12:36 Declan Donnelly? I don't think I'm gonna be on the telly. I don't think my story was interesting enough. It's like, come on Rocky, for goodness sake.
12:43 Ant McPartlin? But you're on telly. Like, it'd be good. It's like a double win. It's a good dog story because he's, he's helped heal your dog, but you're on telly.
12:51 Declan Donnelly? Right, I see.
12:52 Ant McPartlin? You're already on telly. It'll be like a celebrity special. Wouldn't it?
12:57 Declan Donnelly? Yeah. It would be nice to be on the telly.
12:59 Ant McPartlin? It was.
13:00 Declan Donnelly? Like.
13:01 Ant McPartlin? It's always nice to be on the telly.
13:02 Declan Donnelly? But like, a couple of weeks ago, do you remember, we went to the Chelsea Newcastle game at Stamford Bridge? And it was live on Sky. And you sit there in the stands and you're watching the game and suddenly your phone blows up. And there's loads of people going, you've just been on the telly. You've just been on the telly.
13:16 Speaker 05 We actually got loads of messages about that.
13:18 Declan Donnelly? Really?
13:18 Speaker 05 Everyone was really annoyed because you were sitting the wrong way around.
13:20 Declan Donnelly? We were sitting the wrong way around.
13:21 Ant McPartlin? We were sitting the wrong way around. And there was a shot of me kissing my wife. And then someone said, Dex is going to be furious about that.
13:30 Declan Donnelly? It's like, but it's, it is saving for the bedroom or the kitchen or whatever you do. You don't have to do it with the football.
13:35 Ant McPartlin? We were celebrating with a kiss.
13:36 Speaker 05 People also wanted to know what you were telling Ally about the, the ceiling or something.
13:41 Ant McPartlin? What?
13:41 Declan Donnelly? I have no idea.
13:43 Speaker 05 There was this long shot of you explaining something.
13:47 Declan Donnelly? What's that? Man splattered the ceiling.
13:51 Ant McPartlin? Man splattered clouds.
13:54 Declan Donnelly? What's that?
13:55 Ant McPartlin? Oh, I don't know what it might be. There's, there's a screen.
13:57 Declan Donnelly? Oh, there's a screen up above.
13:58 Ant McPartlin? At Stamford Bridge, when, uh, when you're in the direct box, there's, they've got screens so they're, they can watch the replays. So it might have been that.
14:05 Declan Donnelly? You might have pointed at something on the telly. Maybe I was going, I think I've just been on the telly.
14:09 Ant McPartlin? It's, I'm kissing.
14:12 Declan Donnelly? But yeah, when, when you're not supposed to be on the telly, like something like that, I get loads of texts of people going, you're on the telly. You've just been on the telly.
14:19 Ant McPartlin? And it's really exciting. The best ever was when Newcastle won the Carabao Cup final. And ITV and Sky had the, the, the coverage of it. But we were on ITV's coverage loads and it was, I mean, we were crying, we were dropping them down, we were celebrating because we won. But that was very good to be, to be part of that. In, in our own little way, we were part of the win. But then after that, I saw loads of edits of our win on TikTok. And people put like really like, uh, emotional music over it.
14:48 Declan Donnelly? Of me and you hugging?
14:50 Ant McPartlin? No, but like the win, it's Dan Burn with their head out and they're us hugging and then the music's re, and I'm like, oh my God. I'm in it and I'm crying.
14:59 Declan Donnelly? Ah, it's mad. How excited people get when we get on the telly.
15:03 Ant McPartlin? Since it's Easter, I've got you, got you something?
15:06 Declan Donnelly? A prezi?
15:07 Ant McPartlin? Maybe. Let me just have a look at my drawer.
15:11 Declan Donnelly? A prezi? For me? At Easter time? What is it, what is it, what is it?
15:15 Ant McPartlin? Since you love
15:18 Ant McPartlin? eggs.
15:19 Declan Donnelly? Yes.
15:20 Ant McPartlin? I got you.
15:21 Declan Donnelly? Yes.
15:22 Ant McPartlin? Just some eggs. Got you six eggs. There you go.
15:24 Declan Donnelly? Actually, I'm delighted with that.
15:25 Ant McPartlin? Yeah? Happy, happy Easter.
15:26 Declan Donnelly? Oh, look, they're good ones as well.
15:27 Ant McPartlin? Are they good ones? How do you know they're good ones?
15:29 Declan Donnelly? Oh, dark brown shells.
15:30 Ant McPartlin? I got them from a farmer.
15:31 Declan Donnelly? Oh.
15:31 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, is that why?
15:32 Declan Donnelly? Proper farm eggs?
15:33 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, you see, farm eggs. You could crack one open and eat one now if you want, but I would rather you didn't because that was just, that would disgust me.
15:40 Declan Donnelly? Oh, they're good.
15:41 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, don't let's, don't do that. We don't want eggy smells in here. But I did also get you a chocolate egg.
15:47 Declan Donnelly? Oh, that's.
15:48 Ant McPartlin? Your favourite as well. Buttons, Cadbury's buttons. Happy Easter.
15:52 Declan Donnelly? That is really kind of you. Look at that. That is nice and small.
15:58 Ant McPartlin? What? I took it out of the box?
16:00 Declan Donnelly? Oh, I suppose. The box, was the box really big?
16:01 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, the box is really big.
16:03 Declan Donnelly? All right.
16:03 Ant McPartlin? Yeah.
16:04 Declan Donnelly? Well, I got you an egg as well. Do you want it now?
16:06 Ant McPartlin? Yes, please. Yes. I bloody love Easter and I bloody love Easter eggs. Please, please, please, please, please, please be, please be right. If you know me, if you know me, if you know me, if you know, oh my God, yes! Yes! Yes!
16:22 Declan Donnelly? Is that what you wanted?
16:23 Ant McPartlin? Yes. Is this Galaxy?
16:25 Declan Donnelly? It is Galaxy.
16:25 Ant McPartlin? Yes! He knows me very well. Now, the way we crack it in our houses.
16:33 Declan Donnelly? Do you genuinely?
16:33 Ant McPartlin? Every time. Even the kids do it. Crack it on my head.
16:36 Declan Donnelly? Do you?
16:36 Ant McPartlin? Yeah.
16:36 Declan Donnelly? What, crack it on your head?
16:37 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, everyone cracks it on my head. I've got a big head. Doesn't hurt. Go on, go on, be free.
16:44 Ant McPartlin? No, go on, go for it. Go for it.
16:46 Declan Donnelly? That's quite, that's quite sore.
16:48 Ant McPartlin? Go on.
16:50 Ant McPartlin? That was very gentle. Oh my God.
16:52 Declan Donnelly? Is it good?
16:53 Ant McPartlin? Oh my God. If you're just listening, this hasn't been in the fridge as much as I'd like, but there's still a little crack there. The cracking of the egg. Oh God, yeah, this is so good.
17:06 Ant McPartlin? This is like ASMR, me eating chocolate. I love chocolate.
17:10 Declan Donnelly? Look at that.
17:12 Ant McPartlin? And I had no breakfast, so like literally this is the first thing I've eaten today. It'll be like Easter Sunday.
17:16 Declan Donnelly? That is like Easter.
17:16 Ant McPartlin? Yeah. Here you go. I'm listening to this. Mmm. Huh? Go on.
17:23 Declan Donnelly? Mine's not crunchy.
17:26 Ant McPartlin? Yeah.
17:26 Declan Donnelly? It was made too soft.
17:29 Ant McPartlin? It was in me bag.
17:32 Ant McPartlin? I got it from the garage last night when I went with Poppy to get a petrol.
17:38 Declan Donnelly? Oh, that's lovely. Well, I hope you're enjoying your eggs wherever you are.
17:41 Ant McPartlin? Yeah. Happy Easter, guys.
17:42 Declan Donnelly? Happy Easter, everyone.
17:45 Ant McPartlin? What the heck?
17:46 Declan Donnelly? We've got a paper plane in from Heckler's Corner.
17:49 Ant McPartlin? Ever noticed how many Easter eggs there are in films? Would you like some examples?
17:54 Declan Donnelly? Yes, I would.
17:56 Ant McPartlin? The hidden Mickey's in Disney Pixar films. For decades, Disney animators have tucked that iconic three-circle silhouette of Mickey Mouse in the background of almost every film. From the bubbles in Cinderella to the maps in Zootopia. Did you know that?
18:09 Declan Donnelly? I did not know that.
18:10 Ant McPartlin? I didn't know that. That's a good one. Since the eighties, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg have hidden cross-franchise references in plain sight. The most famous examples are the hieroglyphics of R2-D2 in C-3PO and Raiders of the Lost Ark: Snake Pit. And the club Obi-Wan nightclub in The Temple of Dune. In return, the Indiana Jones Golden Idol appears as a trophy in Solo: A Star Wars Story.
18:35 Ant McPartlin? Oh, time of the diary, is it?
18:37 Declan Donnelly? Diary's out.
18:37 Ant McPartlin? Just whipped it out. Just whipped out his diary.
18:39 Declan Donnelly? Got it here.
18:40 Ant McPartlin? Last week was very good.
18:41 Declan Donnelly? Last week was very good.
18:42 Ant McPartlin? I'm a bit afraid that we might be slightly underwhelmed by today's entry.
18:46 Declan Donnelly? I think we might have a little bit of an excitement hangover.
18:49 Ant McPartlin? But that's okay. That's life, isn't it? Some days you're up there, some days you're down there.
18:53 Declan Donnelly? Now, last week we had a super duper jingle.
18:55 Ant McPartlin? We did.
18:56 Declan Donnelly? From Mr. and Mrs. Jemima.
18:57 Ant McPartlin? Yeah. Do we have another?
18:58 Declan Donnelly? Have we got a different one or are we gonna go with that one again?
19:00 Speaker 04 We've got one from Dan.
19:01 Declan Donnelly? Dan has sent one.
19:02 Ant McPartlin? Dan, hit it.
19:04 Speaker 04 Next diary.
19:20 Declan Donnelly? Yeah, well done Dan. Very Eurovision, very good. Very good, very 1994. Very 94. That's brilliant. That's like something we would perform on the Ms. Road show. Yeah, it is. It's like a Steps B-side. Yes. It is. I like it. It's the 8th of April, 1994. Alright. Day 12 of life on the road. Seven and a half hours. London to Rochdale. Seven and a half hours. You've brought it twice. I have, yeah. Shocked by that. Didn't like that journey. I was very wound up by it. Boy was I bored. Wow. Do you know what? I'm slightly offended because I'm in the car with you. Yeah, for seven and a half hours.
20:05 Declan Donnelly? I know, but come on. You're that bored? No mobile phones. Yeah? No, no. Back then we had mobile phones. We talked. Living on for seven and a half hours. Alright, alright. Fair enough. By the time we found it, Matthew and his camera crew were there. Who? Matthew Robinson and his camera crew were there, ready to shoot their fly on the wall documentary. Oh, they did, yeah. They did do a fly on the wall documentary. And? Did we like it? Ooh, that'll be fun to do. Not.
20:36 Declan Donnelly? I've got very cynical all of a sudden. Oh, you really has. I don't know why. You're a cynical washed up pop star at this stage. You've only released two singles. Well, we haven't even done that. I've only been on the road 12 days. And already I'm over it. We had to do Why Me twice. Why? So they could get enough footage. Ah. Bah.
20:59 Declan Donnelly? Bah.
21:10 Declan Donnelly? Bah, B A H, bah. The crowd were brill though.
21:15 Ant McPartlin? Oh, that's good.
21:16 Declan Donnelly? And they wanted to hear it again.
21:17 Ant McPartlin? For a third time, wow, easily pleased, oh what.
21:21 Declan Donnelly? After the gig and eventually getting away, we arrived back at our hotel at one fifty five a m.
21:28 Ant McPartlin? What, so we only played two songs we got in that list?
21:31 Declan Donnelly? I don't know where we went afterwards. We got into bed and asleep by three ish and an alarm call booked for six thirty a m. Made us dread the morning.
21:41 Ant McPartlin? Bah, bah.
21:43 Declan Donnelly? Next episode will be the ninth of April nineteen ninety four. And it's on next week's show, which will come out on the ninth of April twenty twenty six.
21:56 Ant McPartlin? So what's that, thirty?
21:57 Declan Donnelly? Thirty two years.
21:59 Ant McPartlin? To the day.
22:00 Declan Donnelly? And we've physically caught up with ourselves next week.
22:03 Ant McPartlin? This is like an eight twenty four movie, isn't it?
22:07 Declan Donnelly? And we're doing live and kicking next week.
22:10 Ant McPartlin? With Andy Peters?
22:11 Declan Donnelly? I think so, Andy Peters, sadly not Zoe Ball. Hello.
22:18 Ant McPartlin? That's good, that's good, you're right though, slight, slight hangover from the day before, but that's okay, you're at Curry House.
22:24 Declan Donnelly? We, yeah, we had a, we had a private jet, Radio One Roadshow, Blue Peter, the day, fly on the whole documentary.
22:30 Ant McPartlin? Ah, well, they can't all be great days, can they?
22:32 Declan Donnelly? Life on the road, eh?
22:33 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, life on the road.
22:36 Ant McPartlin? I watched a good movie at the weekend, which I thought I would fill you in on.
22:40 Declan Donnelly? Go on.
22:40 Ant McPartlin? Give you a little banana rating on. So there's been a lot of football on the telly recently, hasn't there?
22:45 Declan Donnelly? Yeah, a lot, a lot.
22:46 Ant McPartlin? Outvoted when it comes to movies in my house at the minute. So the movie that was chosen, not by me, but by the rest of the family, was a movie called Eternity. You heard of it? It's an eight twenty four movie, starring Elizabeth Olsen, Callum Turner, and Divine Joy Randolph. So the premise, good, it's a good premise, very eight twenty four, so this guy dies, goes to the next place. Not necessarily heaven, just the next place before he chooses his eternity. So there's a little holding area, right? Before you choose the eternity for you.
23:21 Declan Donnelly? Yes.
23:22 Ant McPartlin? He hangs around because he's elderly when he dies, he hangs around for his wife to pass away so then they can choose eternity together.
23:29 Declan Donnelly? I have heard of this film.
23:30 Ant McPartlin? She passes away, she goes to the next place, meets him, there's a problem.
23:37 Ant McPartlin? Her ex-husband is also there. So will she go to eternity with the current husband? Yeah. Or the first husband? It's very good. Is it good? And I didn't think I'd like it. It's a bit rom-com-y. It's not really for me. Uh, I was a bit like, oh, I want to watch the trailer, but actually it's good. Divine Joey Randolph is really funny. It reminds us of like, you know, when you watched Ghost for the first time? Uh huh. And Whoopi Goldberg was just hilarious in it. Yeah. But there was a, you know, it was a romantic comedy at heart. It's a bit like that. It's a romantic comedy at heart. Right. But with nice humour, well-written. I'd give it like six and a half, seven bananas. It's a really good. Well, choose one, six and a half or seven. Okay, uh, six and a half, six and a half.
24:19 Ant McPartlin? No, but I, but I can, but I can imagine, cause it's probably 10 minutes too long. Talk to me about it. You could take 10 minutes out of it. Right. Because you get, you get the gist. And who did she choose? Well, I'm not gonna tell you and give it away, am I? I just saved me watching it. But the whole point of you having an eternity that you have to choose. And is it gonna be like golf eternity? Or beach eternity or woodland eternity? Like, then you could pick a place that you could spend eternity in. Wow. What would you pick? It got me thinking. This podcast studio, cause it feels like I'm in this for an eternity.
24:54 Ant McPartlin? At the moment. Not like golf. Oh, no, yeah. Or would you, would you be beachy? Beachy. Would you be, because the two options she has is like a beach paradise eternity. And the other one is her other husband really enjoys outdoors. So he likes skiing, he likes mountains, he likes trekking. So she kind of has to choose between the two. I'd go beachy. Yeah, you'd go beachy? Beachy eternity. Yeah, uh, so yeah, six and a half banana ratings. Whack it on there. Great. Very, very good. Get watching. Ally'd like it. Will she? Yeah, she will. She's very hard to please. Is she? Yeah, very. Does she not like a rom-com? She loves a rom-com. Man, does she like kissing? Don't know.
25:32 Declan Donnelly? We'll give that a try.
25:33 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, you should, you should do.
25:35 Declan Donnelly? And then we'll watch the film.
25:36 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, yeah.
25:39 Declan Donnelly? I was thinking, and as it's Easter as well, um, we're, we're rating everything a lot. It's quite heavily skewed towards the bananas.
25:46 Ant McPartlin? Well, yeah, because it's banana rating, of course it's skewed.
25:50 Declan Donnelly? I wonder whether we do anything for eggs.
25:51 Ant McPartlin? What do you mean?
25:52 Declan Donnelly? Is there an eggy kind of rating we can give things like?
25:55 Ant McPartlin? Like what?
25:57 Declan Donnelly? Like a dozen eggs?
25:58 Ant McPartlin? Two.
25:59 Declan Donnelly? Shake it up a bit?
26:00 Ant McPartlin? We don't want to shake it up, we're just getting it going.
26:02 Declan Donnelly? Are we?
26:02 Ant McPartlin? We're just getting it going, getting people rating things like on TripAdvisor and restaurants they've been to. They're just starting to movies, TV shows, they're just starting to rate things in bananas. Why are you bringing eggs into it now?
26:14 Declan Donnelly? Just for a bit of a change.
26:15 Ant McPartlin? We don't want to change. We like the bananas.
26:17 Declan Donnelly? Do we?
26:18 Ant McPartlin? It can be an addition too.
26:19 Declan Donnelly? Right.
26:20 Ant McPartlin? If you want. Well, what have you watched recently?
26:22 Declan Donnelly? Small Profits.
26:23 Ant McPartlin? Oh yeah, it's good.
26:24 Declan Donnelly? I loved it.
26:25 Ant McPartlin? Yeah? What would you give it? So what's the, what's the total? A dozen?
26:29 Declan Donnelly? A dozen eggs.
26:30 Ant McPartlin? That's a, that's a lot, isn't it?
26:31 Declan Donnelly? A lot.
26:32 Ant McPartlin? Go on though, a dozen eggs, what would you give it?
26:34 Declan Donnelly? I'd probably give it a dozen eggs.
26:35 Ant McPartlin? You'd give it 12 out of 12?
26:36 Declan Donnelly? I think I would, yeah.
26:37 Ant McPartlin? Would you?
26:37 Declan Donnelly? Yeah. It's so good.
26:39 Ant McPartlin? I haven't watched it yet, I'll watch it.
26:40 Declan Donnelly? It's so good.
26:41 Ant McPartlin? Okay.
26:42 Declan Donnelly? You've got to see it.
26:43 Ant McPartlin? Right.
26:43 Declan Donnelly? Mackenzie Crook directs it, I think he wrote it, directed it, plays a brilliant part in it as well. Michael Palin's in it, who's brilliant playing the main character's father.
26:53 Ant McPartlin? What's the premise?
26:54 Declan Donnelly? Well, it's quite difficult to explain.
26:56 Ant McPartlin? Please try. If you're going to start rating things in eggs, you need to come prepared, my friend.
27:00 Declan Donnelly? My character works in a hardware store. His father is in an old people's home and talks of days gone by about how he was an explorer and used to travel the world. He's a scientist.
27:12 Ant McPartlin? Right.
27:13 Declan Donnelly? And he's got these old books, old journals about how, um, you can conjure up these small prophets.
27:20 Ant McPartlin? Right.
27:21 Declan Donnelly? Like they're little, almost like seahorse creatures and they can tell you your future. They can answer you one question, but they will answer it truthfully.
27:30 Ant McPartlin? Where do they live?
27:31 Declan Donnelly? So, well, this is the thing, and he's like, he's thinking, my dad's a bit doulally, but I'll just, I'll do this just to please him.
27:37 Ant McPartlin? Right.
27:38 Declan Donnelly? And lo and behold, he starts growing small profits in his garden shed. They start to take shape and the neighbours start getting wind of what he's doing and like, what's he doing in that shed? So anyway, it's the, it's the story of him growing these small profits and getting to ask them or preparing to ask them one question that they will answer him truthfully, that he really wants to know the answer to. I don't want to tell you too much more, but it's just really gentle, it's really warm, really sweet, so very watchable. Everybody in it is brilliant. Uh, it's just so lovely. Feel good. Yeah. Twelve bananas. No, twelve. No, what is it? A dozen eggs. We're back to bananas.
28:21 Declan Donnelly? A dozen eggs, eight bananas, dozen, dozen eggs. And a dozen eggs for small profits. Watch it. Very good. It's brilliant. Okay.
28:30 Declan Donnelly? Is the map back this week? We've got our map. Good. Well, I'm gonna do the UK. World map? No, we're UK today. Okay. We've got people listening in lots of fun places. Good. Around the UK. Let's hear it. Oh, is a chick on the map. There's a little chick on the map. We've got the Woolly family. Hi, Woolly family. I don't think they're a bunch of sheep. No? I think they're just a family called the Woolies. They're living in Parbold. Where's that? In Lancashire. Lancashire? So that's here somewhere. There you go. Greater Manchester. Ever been? Never been? Never been to Parbold? Well, I don't think so. I wouldn't remember that name. You been to Blackpool? Been to Blackpool, been to Manchester, been to Preston. Yeah, we know that area pretty well. Never been to Parbold? Never. Invite us, we'll stay. Natalie is listening in Norton Keynes. Where's that?
29:15 Declan Donnelly? Near Cannock. Hello, Natalie. Becky is in Widnes. Widnes. Yeah, I know where Widnes is. In Cheshire. Cheshire, yeah. So that must be here. There they are. Have you, have you been? Don't know if I've been to Widnes. No? No funny stories, no service stations or sandwiches? No. No, gotta save that for Cannock. Okay. Meg is in Otley. Where's Otley? I know Otley. West Yorkshire. West, yes. So that must be here, up near Wakey. Yeah, near Wakefield. I, I think, do we, have we passed through there before? We've been to Otley? Think we've been to Otley. I'm sure we've been to Otley. Yeah, we have. Loads, we had loads of fun. Can't remember it now, though. Gemma is in Shetland. Shetland? Like the ponies? Yes. Whoa. It's all the way up there, isn't it? Look at that.
29:59 Declan Donnelly? Look, where, where the Shetland Islands are. Do you get reception up there? Can you hear us? Can you hear us in Shetland? Can you hear, have you got any service? What time is it there? Never been to Shetland?
30:13 Ant McPartlin? Uh, don't think so.
30:15 Declan Donnelly? Me neither.
30:15 Ant McPartlin? Invite me round. Our offer still stands. If you invite us round, you get a big shop in, clean the sheets, and there is an ensuite bathroom, we will stay at your house. And you have to have wifi. Wifi.
30:27 Declan Donnelly? No chance up there.
30:28 Ant McPartlin? Wifi.
30:29 Declan Donnelly? In Shetland?
30:29 Ant McPartlin? No wifi?
30:30 Declan Donnelly? Not in Shetland.
30:30 Ant McPartlin? Nah.
30:31 Declan Donnelly? What time is it there?
30:32 Ant McPartlin? How do you get there even? Is there an airport in Shetland? Or is it all by boat? These are the answers we need to know, Shetland! Please get in touch! Do you have a Greg's?
30:41 Declan Donnelly? Oh, there's Greg's everywhere, isn't there?
30:43 Ant McPartlin? Is there one in Shetland?
30:44 Declan Donnelly? Bound to be.
30:45 Ant McPartlin? If there is, send us a picture.
30:46 Speaker 06 As of late 2024, there are no Greg's in Shetland.
30:49 Ant McPartlin? There's no Greg's in Shetland? I'm sorry, I can't go. I can't.
30:53 Declan Donnelly? That's put paid to that.
30:54 Ant McPartlin? That's your fallback. If you don't like what they're cooking, maybe I can get a sausage roll. You can't do it.
30:59 Speaker 06 Do you know how many Greg's there are in the UK?
31:01 Declan Donnelly? Four hundred and seventy-two.
31:04 Ant McPartlin? Six hundred and twenty.
31:05 Speaker 06 As of late 2025, over 2,600 Greg's.
31:09 Ant McPartlin? Two thousand six hundred Greg's? I tell you what, there's a TV show on that. Us visiting every Greg's in the UK. Isn't there? There is. There is. There's a YouTube show on that. We should do it on Belt of Box. Oh my God, Greg's every day.
31:24 Declan Donnelly? I still can't get my head around that the Greg's in Newcastle are the only places that sell stotties.
31:28 Ant McPartlin? Yeah.
31:29 Declan Donnelly? Do you know what a stottie is? Stottie cake. Stottie bread.
31:32 Ant McPartlin? It's like a big bap that you can slice up and make sandwiches with. Or toast, very good for toast as well.
31:37 Declan Donnelly? I think we need to start a campaign for Greg's to roll out stottie cakes all over their 2,600 branches. Free the stottie!
31:48 Ant McPartlin? Roll out the stottie!
31:50 Declan Donnelly? Let's get it trending. Show us your stottie. Whip out your stottie!
31:55 Ant McPartlin? Does your mum bring you stotties when she comes down from Newcastle?
31:58 Declan Donnelly? Yeah.
31:58 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, same here.
31:59 Declan Donnelly? I've got some in the freezer.
32:00 Ant McPartlin? Got them in the freezer as well, yeah.
32:01 Declan Donnelly? Every now and again, I go, special occasion, I'm gonna defrost the stottie.
32:07 Ant McPartlin? It's wild in his house, I tell you, wild!
32:12 Ant McPartlin? Whoa, that was a good airplane that's come in there.
32:15 Declan Donnelly? With breaking news.
32:16 Ant McPartlin? It says.
32:17 Declan Donnelly? What does it say?
32:18 Ant McPartlin? Oh, look in the drawers behind you. We've had some SAEs.
32:23 Declan Donnelly? Oh.
32:25 Ant McPartlin? Come on, Deck, have a look.
32:26 Declan Donnelly? Got some stamped addressed envelopes here. One for Gemma, who's in Telford.
32:30 Ant McPartlin? Right.
32:31 Declan Donnelly? She's sent us a letter, stamped addressed envelope. Hope you're both well and writing to beg you, please, to tell me how much Anne's pants cost.
32:37 Ant McPartlin? Great.
32:37 Declan Donnelly? The amount of time I've spent thinking about it since you first discussed it on the podcast is getting out of hand.
32:42 Ant McPartlin? Really?
32:42 Declan Donnelly? I'm worried for my mental health.
32:45 Ant McPartlin? I'm worried for your mental health. You shouldn't be thinking about me and my pants that much.
32:49 Declan Donnelly? I live in Shropshire, so there's very little chance of me bumping into Anne at his local butcher's.
32:53 Ant McPartlin? Agreed.
32:53 Declan Donnelly? Also, I'm vegetarian.
32:55 Ant McPartlin? Oh, well, there's very little chance.
32:56 Declan Donnelly? It's never gonna happen.
32:57 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, very little chance.
32:57 Declan Donnelly? Please, please, please, can you find it within your heart to tell me, please?
33:01 Ant McPartlin? Yes, I can.
33:02 Declan Donnelly? I've enclosed an SAE and a tear-off strip for you. Here she's got a strip.
33:06 Ant McPartlin? Go on then.
33:07 Declan Donnelly? So at the bottom it says.
33:09 Ant McPartlin? I should perforate it.
33:10 Declan Donnelly? No, but she, but she has done little lines.
33:12 Ant McPartlin? Oh, okay, that's good.
33:13 Declan Donnelly? I've enclosed an SAE and a tear-off slip to complete to make it super easy. I literally don't know what more I can do. Respect, guys. Love, Gemma.
33:21 Ant McPartlin? Gemma.
33:21 Declan Donnelly? So you've got a little slip there.
33:23 Ant McPartlin? Respect to you, I will write down.
33:24 Declan Donnelly? We can confirm.
33:25 Ant McPartlin? We can confirm that Anthony McPartlin's pants cost. And I will write the figure in here without telling you. Oh, I should do the, uh, the exact figure. Shall I put jet skis on there as well?
33:38 Declan Donnelly? I've got to sign it as well.
33:39 Ant McPartlin? You've got to sign it?
33:40 Declan Donnelly? She's left a little thing for me to sign.
33:41 Ant McPartlin? Sign for authenticity, yes, that's right. I'll sign it, you'll sign it here.
33:43 Declan Donnelly? Witnessed by.
33:44 Ant McPartlin? Could you, uh, witness that, please, Declan?
33:46 Declan Donnelly? Witnessing that.
33:48 Ant McPartlin? Okay. I mean, I could just send her a whole letter back.
33:51 Declan Donnelly? Yeah, you don't have to tear it.
33:52 Ant McPartlin? What, let's?
33:55 Ant McPartlin? That'd make quite a good fish to that. How good was that?
33:57 Declan Donnelly? That was very good.
33:58 Ant McPartlin? That was very good. Okay, let's pop it back in there as you read the other one.
34:01 Declan Donnelly? I am Deck, I know I'm breaking the pledge, sorry, but I live all the way in Wetherby, near Leeds.
34:06 Ant McPartlin? Oh, yeah.
34:06 Declan Donnelly? I won't bump into you both, but I want to ask the million banana question. How much are Anne's pants? Respect, guys. Kayleigh Cavanagh. So I'll just, I'll just witness this in advance. Just save that.
34:17 Ant McPartlin? Okay.
34:18 Declan Donnelly? There you go.
34:19 Ant McPartlin? And I'll also sign it and put the figure above it. Shall I do jet skis on here as well? Okay. Okay, there we go. Pledge complete.
34:26 Declan Donnelly? Good, into the envelope they go.
34:28 Ant McPartlin? Into the envelope and we'll get them posted. Some minion will run to the postbox.
34:32 Declan Donnelly? Are we now saying?
34:33 Ant McPartlin? Ah, ooh.
34:33 Declan Donnelly? Ooh, paper, paper cut.
34:35 Ant McPartlin? Paper cut, you suck. Come on, how's saying what?
34:36 Declan Donnelly? Are we now saying that if people from the UK then write to you with a standard dress envelope, you're gonna send them how much your pants were?
34:42 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, instead of get bored of it.
34:45 Ant McPartlin? And I'm not bored of it, I'm like into it.
34:47 Declan Donnelly? Okay, right, he's into it.
34:48 Ant McPartlin? So, get cracking.
34:50 Declan Donnelly? Keep the comment in.
34:50 Ant McPartlin? If you wait a couple of weeks, no chance.
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34:59 Ant McPartlin? Uh, beating the butchers again?
35:00 Declan Donnelly? Have you?
35:01 Ant McPartlin? Obs, and I wanna do something different.
35:03 Declan Donnelly? You need some inspiration?
35:04 Ant McPartlin? I need some inspiration, so I thought we could ask Gemini.
35:07 Declan Donnelly? What would be really inspirational is to get something that you could do with meat.
35:10 Ant McPartlin? Yes.
35:11 Declan Donnelly? But then combine your love of bananas.
35:13 Ant McPartlin? Yes, yes, ask Gemini!
35:17 Declan Donnelly? All right. Gemini, can you give us some examples of dishes from around the world that combine meat and bananas?
35:24 Ant McPartlin? Yes, yes, yes!
35:25 Speaker 07 You can find meat and banana in various cuisines. The easiest one would probably be a simple Caribbean stew.
35:34 Declan Donnelly? Mmm.
35:34 Ant McPartlin? Caribbean stew, I like it.
35:36 Declan Donnelly? I like that. What other foods could you pair bananas with, Gemini?
35:38 Speaker 07 Bananas pair quite well with warm spices like cinnamon, nutmeg and clove. They also contrast nicely with tangy flavours like lime or orange. For something savoury, they can be a great addition to dishes with pork or chicken, balancing the richness.
35:57 Ant McPartlin? Pork and banana?
35:58 Declan Donnelly? I would never have thought that.
35:59 Ant McPartlin? I'm gonna do that. I'm gonna do a pork and banana dish.
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37:30 Declan Donnelly? Some cracking tattoos last week. Yeah, we did. We really, well, one in particular I really liked. I'm hoping, hoping we've got some more this week. Let's have a look at this. Hi guys, absolutely loving Belt of Box, haven't laughed this much in ages. I think Ant should have the tattoo of the painting he did of Simon Cowell. Oh God, no. That's from Caroline. Oh God, no. That would be a great tattoo. You know it's him though, don't you? That was my best work. If you haven't seen that, if you're just listening, have a look at on Belt of Box, at our celebrity portrait when we paint Simon Cowell. Ant's one, he has a, you've got a real problem with skin tone, haven't you? What? He's always that, he's that colour he's painted the Barbados. Actually, he has, but he is that colour. Not having that? I'm not having that. Not having that. No, that's not going on. Not even making it.
38:15 Declan Donnelly? This one is from Nicole. Hi boys, love the podcast. I'm an illustrator and a tattoo artist. Sounds good. Tell me more. From up north. Tell me more, Nicole. And I hear you're looking for tattoo designs. I am, Nicole. I have created a flash sheet with some design ideas for you. Hope you enjoy. Oh, she has?
38:33 Ant McPartlin? Look, there's loads.
38:34 Declan Donnelly? Oh, I love this.
38:35 Ant McPartlin? So on the screen, there's loads and loads of ideas here. We've got Stay Fresh Cheese Bags down the bottom right hand corner. Respect, guys. We've got the Wonky Donkey in the store. That's good. We've got the picture of our hangout here as a postage stamp. That's really good.
38:50 Declan Donnelly? Got a Dex diary, some pants here with some price tag on it. I like this one in the bottom left hand corner. It's got a rhyme. Wonky Donkey.
38:57 Ant McPartlin? What, your face?
38:58 Declan Donnelly? Yeah, it's me.
38:59 Ant McPartlin? Why just you?
39:00 Declan Donnelly? I think that's cool.
39:01 Speaker 04 What's the middle bottom?
39:03 Ant McPartlin? What's the middle? Ah, Alien Autopsy.
39:04 Declan Donnelly? Alien Autopsy?
39:05 Ant McPartlin? Yeah.
39:06 Declan Donnelly? That was a scene that we did because this is what happened is they filmed the autopsy again, but one of the characters, Nans, kept coming in offering biscuits and ruining the takes by going, would you like a biscuit? And he's like, no, Nan, out of the way. We're doing an autopsy. It was very funny.
39:22 Ant McPartlin? Have you never seen the movie?
39:23 Speaker 04 No.
39:23 Ant McPartlin? Right, I'm gonna set you some homework, right? All three of you, or everybody here
39:28 Declan Donnelly? Yes, you sexy and you nice.
39:30 Ant McPartlin? Yes, sexy and nice too, have to watch Alien Autopsy by next week's show and give us a banana rating. Then we can give it a... Anybody else who'd like to watch it as well who hasn't seen it, watch Alien Autopsy, send us your banana rating, then we'll collate all the banana ratings and then we can have an official rating for Alien Autopsy.
39:48 Declan Donnelly? And don't just be needlessly cruel.
39:49 Ant McPartlin? No, there's no need.
39:50 Declan Donnelly? With your ratings.
39:51 Ant McPartlin? There's no need.
39:51 Declan Donnelly? But yeah, if you're at home and you've got a bit of spare time.
39:54 Ant McPartlin? Join in. This could be the first thing that we, that we review together.
39:57 Declan Donnelly? Okay. Yeah, if you're at home, if you've got a bit of spare time, watch Alien Autopsy and send us your banana rating. Drop it in the comments or send it to us, [email protected] and we'll do an average banana rating for...
40:09 Ant McPartlin? An average movie. Sorry, sorry. I shouldn't influence your rating. We might have a spin off podcast. Just where it's a TV and film review podcast. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's get back to, let's get back to tattoos. So Nicole, you've got some very good ideas here. I particularly like Wonky Donkey in the store.
40:28 Declan Donnelly? That's good.
40:28 Ant McPartlin? That's a really cool one. Stay Fresh Cheese Bags, I always said I would get that, didn't I? So that's gotta be on there somewhere.
40:35 Declan Donnelly? That is a cool little design as well.
40:37 Ant McPartlin? And I do like the pizza in a pizza box with Saturday for Saturday night takeaway because that was a very big part of my life. Over 20 years of my life, we did do that show, so.
40:46 Declan Donnelly? I have to say, I really like the...
40:48 Ant McPartlin? Respect, guys.
40:49 Declan Donnelly? Respect, guys with the little fingers, the little two little...
40:52 Ant McPartlin? Peace sign fingers.
40:53 Declan Donnelly? Peace sign fingers. Respect, guys.
40:55 Ant McPartlin? Okay.
40:55 Declan Donnelly? Well done, Nicole.
40:56 Ant McPartlin? Well done, Nicole.
40:56 Declan Donnelly? We're big fans of your work. We love it.
40:59 Ant McPartlin? Shall I get the cutouts?
41:00 Declan Donnelly? Get the cutout.
41:00 Ant McPartlin? Okay, let's get the cutout.
41:01 Declan Donnelly? Bring in the body.
41:02 Ant McPartlin? Oh, thank you, thank you. You've got my actual body this time. Thanks very much. You stripped me of my suit. Those aren't the pants though. Those are my swimming shorts.
41:15 Declan Donnelly? I've got Caroline Simon Cowell.
41:17 Ant McPartlin? What are we thinking? No, I'm not thinking anywhere. Is that not happening? Put right down on the legs. That's further down there.
41:22 Declan Donnelly? Of what?
41:22 Ant McPartlin? Because I don't think it's gonna make-
41:23 Declan Donnelly? On the calf?
41:24 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, on the calf. That's as high as he can ever go. Simon Cowell, never above the knee.
41:31 Declan Donnelly? And I've got the whole sheet.
41:32 Ant McPartlin? Well, you've got, mm. I was hoping that we could cut them out and put them in different places. But I tell you what, because I like them, let's put it on this left peck. Put it on the left peck deck.
41:42 Declan Donnelly? Righto, lad.
41:43 Ant McPartlin? At the minute, Nicole, you are, um, I think you could be winning. It's you in the boomerang.
41:49 Declan Donnelly? Keep them coming in. Any more tattoo ideas hanging out at BeltTheBox.com? And who knows, you might get them all.
41:54 Ant McPartlin? Let me get rid of the body. I'll bring this down, you get the postbag.
41:57 Declan Donnelly? You get rid of the body.
42:01 Ant McPartlin? Oh, I nearly went then. I nearly went. I nearly went. I really struggle with sitting down in chairs.
42:09 Declan Donnelly? Struggling with chairs. Let me get the postbag.
42:10 Ant McPartlin? Get the postbag.
42:11 Declan Donnelly? Got lots of letters this week to get through.
42:13 Ant McPartlin? Okay.
42:14 Declan Donnelly? So let's dive in to the postbag.
42:16 Ant McPartlin? These chicks are everywhere.
42:17 Declan Donnelly? Everywhere.
42:17 Ant McPartlin? Look, there's chicks everywhere. Hello, baby. Hello, baby. Hello, baby. Start, start.
42:22 Declan Donnelly? Aye, we aye.
42:24 Ant McPartlin? This one says, all right, lads?
42:26 Declan Donnelly? All right.
42:26 Ant McPartlin? All right? Over the years, you've done loads with the Princess Trust and I want to know what your mate, King Charlie's like. Were you nervous when you met him for the first time? And what do you talk about when you see him? Respect, guys. Rob in Bridge End, Northumberland.
42:41 Declan Donnelly? We first met him about, well, it was 25 years ago.
42:45 Ant McPartlin? It was?
42:45 Declan Donnelly? When we interviewed him for 25 years at the Princess Trust and we went to High Grove House, um, to meet him and interview him in the garden. And we were really, really super duper nervous. And he was really relaxed and put us at REs.
42:59 Ant McPartlin? Yeah.
43:00 Declan Donnelly? And he called us in first, didn't he? He said, I want to meet you.
43:02 Ant McPartlin? Yeah.
43:03 Declan Donnelly? Off camera first, so we get to know each other a little bit before the cameras start rolling. So we went in and sit in this room and he comes in and he shook our hands and we sit down. And then they're bringing this massive tray with a big teapot, teacups on it, biscuits and stuff. And we sit there and he's talking to us and saying, you know, thank you for coming and doing all this. Sitting there and going. Who's gonna pour the tea? Like, he's not gonna do it. And do, do we do it? Are we supposed to do this? Like, should one of us just dive in and go, let me do that?
43:35 Ant McPartlin? Or is that breaking royal, royal protocol? Should you always let, you know?
43:39 Declan Donnelly? And I was really distracted because I was like, who's gonna deal with the tea? Has this been left for us to do? Because he's not gonna do it. He's, at the time, he was Prince Charles. He was, he's gonna be the next king. So have we got to do this? And I was really distracted through the whole thing. I kind of wasn't listening to what he was saying because I was too worried about, do we have to pour the tea? And obviously they're letting it stew for a bit and then a footman comes in.
44:05 Ant McPartlin? It wasn't stewed as much as you were. Who's gonna pour this tea?
44:09 Declan Donnelly? I was really worried about the thing. Then eventually somebody came in, got the cups out and started pouring the tea. Oh, that was a relief.
44:16 Speaker 06 Was it good tea?
44:17 Ant McPartlin? Very good tea. Good tea, good biscuits, high growth biscuits.
44:21 Declan Donnelly? Shortbread.
44:21 Ant McPartlin? Oh, yeah.
44:22 Declan Donnelly? Really shortbread. No Jaffa cakes, no.
44:24 Ant McPartlin? No Jaffa cakes. No ginger snaps.
44:27 Declan Donnelly? And then we went out into the garden and interviewed him in the garden. And he was the loveliest, loveliest man.
44:32 Ant McPartlin? And since then, we've interviewed him quite a few times. And we, uh, he, we followed him around for forty years of the Princess Trust, which we did ten years ago, uh, where we spent a kind of a year of his life, where we, every now, every couple of months, we'd meet up with him at a different event. We'd pop up and we'd follow him and we ended up staying at his castle in Scotland, uh, where we, uh, stayed for the night, which was amazing. Do you remember we went to the restaurant? Everybody always offers him food.
45:01 Declan Donnelly? Everywhere he goes.
45:01 Ant McPartlin? Everywhere we went, people are offering him food or snacks or something and he never eats it. And I said to her, I said, why don't you, why don't you eat it? It looked really tasty. He said, if I ate everything that was offered to me, he says, I'd be huge. He says, I said, well, I'll eat it. So everywhere we went, I ate it instead of him. And then he said to me at one point, he went, I'm gonna get you a spoon made.
45:22 Declan Donnelly? To hang round your neck.
45:23 Ant McPartlin? To hang round your neck like my official taster.
45:27 Declan Donnelly? You could be the royal taster.
45:29 Ant McPartlin? I'd love that.
45:30 Declan Donnelly? I get you a spoon made for around your neck.
45:32 Ant McPartlin? I never did get the spoon, did I?
45:33 Declan Donnelly? Didn't get the spoon.
45:33 Ant McPartlin? I would genuinely love to be his royal taster. But we, we love the Princess Trust, uh, which is now the King's Trust. So much that we've got our own course with the Princess Trust, the King's Trust now are making it a media course. Where we get, uh, people into TV, media, and we've done that for the last.
45:50 Declan Donnelly? Five, six years?
45:51 Ant McPartlin? Five, six years now.
45:51 Declan Donnelly? Yeah.
45:52 Ant McPartlin? Uh, we've helped lots, lots of young people get into telly and the media and it's great. We really believe in what the, what they do. We really believe in the trust.
46:02 Declan Donnelly? What they stand for.
46:03 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, what they stand for. It's wonderful.
46:05 Declan Donnelly? Yeah, it's brilliant. And he's really passionate about it as well.
46:07 Ant McPartlin? Yeah.
46:07 Declan Donnelly? He's still passionate about it 50 years on. He started it with his, um, pension cheque from the Navy. I think he got like three thousand pounds.
46:14 Ant McPartlin? Yeah.
46:14 Declan Donnelly? And he put that into starting up this trust. And 50 years later, it's helped over a million young people get into education or employment or training. So it's still an amazing job and he's still as passionate about it today as he was 50 years ago.
46:26 Ant McPartlin? And every year for the last, I think we've hosted it now for 12 years. They celebrate success awards, which is an annual event where, uh, people who have been through the Princess Trust, now the King's Trust, uh, get celebrated and people win awards. So we, we celebrate, we host that every year. We're hosting it again this year.
46:43 Declan Donnelly? Yeah.
46:43 Ant McPartlin? It's at the Royal Albert Hall this year for the 50th anniversary.
46:47 Declan Donnelly? It's gonna be a big old concert.
46:48 Ant McPartlin? Good one.
46:49 Speaker 05 Do you remember like the coronation?
46:51 Ant McPartlin? Oh God, yes, I do remember the coronation. Right, there was a really weird shot of me at the coronation.
46:59 Declan Donnelly? I don't think I've seen that.
47:02 Declan Donnelly? Anyway, it kind of went viral.
47:04 Ant McPartlin? Doing this.
47:05 Declan Donnelly? It kind of went.
47:05 Ant McPartlin? Something like that.
47:06 Declan Donnelly? It went viral, didn't it?
47:07 Ant McPartlin? Oh, it was all on TikTok.
47:08 Declan Donnelly? There was, there was a shot of us at the coronation waiting for it all to start. And yeah, and you were kind of twitching a bit, pulling, pulling a face.
47:15 Ant McPartlin? I was ADHD in a way.
47:17 Declan Donnelly? What was, what was that?
47:18 Ant McPartlin? I don't know. I've got no idea. I don't know what the face was, I don't know what I was thinking about. I don't know what, whether I was pretending to be one of the gogos on the, on the, on the front of Westminster Abbey. Or I was just thinking about something, smiling. But I was so much, it, it was everywhere and I kept seeing it on TikTok and Instagram. People kept sending it to us as if I really wanted to see it again. And I was boarding a flight up to Newcastle and the air stewardess was like. He says, how did you feel when your TikTok blew up? And I thought you meant something that we'd done together.
47:49 Declan Donnelly? Yeah.
47:49 Ant McPartlin? And I was like, oh, which one's that? Which funny one's that? I write in your face at the coronation. Yeah, thanks. Thanks for bringing that up. So to answer your question, I've no idea why I pulled that face. Next question.
48:00 Declan Donnelly? Next question. Got one from M.
48:04 Ant McPartlin? Hi, M.
48:04 Declan Donnelly? She says, dearest Anton Deck, dearest.
48:06 Ant McPartlin? Dearest, oh, very formal.
48:08 Declan Donnelly? It's very nice. Do you ever look at things without a face and see a face? For instance, seeing Jesus in your toast or a face in a cloud?
48:15 Ant McPartlin? Yes.
48:15 Declan Donnelly? You know, that kind of thing.
48:16 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, I do.
48:17 Declan Donnelly? Imagine my surprise when a picture of our nine-month-old woofer stretching after her evening stroll was taken and sent to our family WhatsApp. I saw it immediately and felt the need to share it with you. Please tell me I'm not going mad. This is definitely Ant's face, right?
48:31 Ant McPartlin? What? What? It's a dog's.
48:37 Ant McPartlin? My face is not a dog's.
48:40 Ant McPartlin? Where is my face? It's a dog's bumhole. My face, my face is not a dog's bumhole.
48:47 Ant McPartlin? No, you can't see my face in a dog's bumhole. No, you're still telling your head and squirm. Shut up. All of you, shut up.
48:54 Speaker 05 There's his eye.
48:55 Ant McPartlin? I can see, I can see Chewbacca.
48:58 Speaker 05 I actually do see it.
48:59 Ant McPartlin? No, you don't. What do you mean you see it? You're all a bunch of.
49:04 Speaker 05 Oh, from over here, yeah.
49:05 Ant McPartlin? What are you talking about?
49:06 Speaker 05 That sounds canny.
49:08 Ant McPartlin? Shut up.
49:14 Ant McPartlin? Give me that. Give me that, man. I, I put this in especially for letters like this.
49:20 Declan Donnelly? Just in case.
49:22 Ant McPartlin? Oh, I missed, I missed the basket as well.
49:24 Declan Donnelly? She does go on to say.
49:25 Ant McPartlin? I don't care, I don't care, I don't care what she's called. I don't care. I don't care what she's called.
49:31 Declan Donnelly? She does go on to say, I hope this is received in the manner it was meant.
49:36 Ant McPartlin? Well, how was it meant? Offensive? Offen, yeah?
49:39 Declan Donnelly? No, it was from M. Thank you, M.
49:42 Ant McPartlin? No, thank you, M. Never again.
49:44 Declan Donnelly? Got one from Katie Gibson. She says, "Dear Ant and Dec, I'm writing following on from the two ice sculptures to share a picture of these two kangaroos named Ant and Dec at my local farm, only with a slight twist. At high farm near Bishop Auckland, when their wallabies first arrived, they called them Ant and Dec because we thought they were both bouncy little jody blokes. Then one day, a tiny joy popped its head out of a pouch, so Ant and Dec quickly became Anthea and Declan."
50:12 Ant McPartlin? Ah, let me see. Ah, Anthea and Declan.
50:17 Declan Donnelly? Oh, they're cute.
50:19 Ant McPartlin? And one tan's better than the other one. It is very similar to Ant and Dec.
50:26 Ant McPartlin? It is, it's awesome wallaby form. I like it. That's a nice wholesome letter, that.
50:30 Declan Donnelly? That is lovely.
50:31 Ant McPartlin? And we didn't spin them round and look at their bum holes.
50:33 Declan Donnelly? Yeah, let's have a look. Now let's have a look at their arses.
50:36 Ant McPartlin? And that, as they say, is that. That is. If you've got time for it, put your specs away.
50:42 Declan Donnelly? Have a brilliant Easter weekend. Enjoy yourselves.
50:45 Ant McPartlin? It's a long one. Bank holidays and all that.
50:47 Declan Donnelly? Yes.
50:48 Ant McPartlin? Loads of time to watch Alien Autopsy.
50:49 Declan Donnelly? Get those eggs in the fridge. Get your eggs in the fridge. Um, yeah, catch Alien Autopsy if you can. Let us know. Give us a banana rating or eggs.
50:57 Ant McPartlin? No, bananas. Banana Club.
50:59 Declan Donnelly? And we will be back on Monday. We've got, we've got an episode on the bank holiday, an exciting episode.
51:05 Ant McPartlin? Very exciting.
51:05 Declan Donnelly? Lined up for you on Monday. But have a great time.
51:08 Ant McPartlin? Happy Easter.
51:09 Declan Donnelly? Respect, guys.
51:10 Ant McPartlin? Respect, guys.
51:10 Declan Donnelly? See ya.
51:10 Ant McPartlin? Bye, guys.
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