Pod Insights Hanging Out With Ant & Dec The Bananaphone is Back: Ant’s Been Texting Bill Nighy & Dec Needs a Hobby About this episode It’s Monday, and the yellow telephone is BACK with all your voice notes and burning questions for the boys!
Join Ant & Dec as they reminisce about the Beckhams' party, discuss creating their 2002 World Cup song “We’re on the Ball,” and reveal all about shooting the movie Love Actually.
We’ll be back on Thursday, but until then, keep your emails coming to [email protected]
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00:00 - It’s Voicenote Monday!
01:00 - The boys Love Actually Cameo
04:30 - Is Ant Jungle Jim?
07:30 - Ant & Dec’s Hobbies
10:05 - Future Ant & Dec
12:30 - Baboons, Leopards & Warthogs
14:55 - World Cup song: “We’re on the Ball”
18:40 - The Beckhams 2002 World Cup Party
20:00 - Ant & Dec’s School & Celeb Crushes
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1:20 Ant McPartlin? Hello again. Welcome to Hanging Out with me and him. And the hangout's ready for a hang.
1:27 Declan Donnelly? Are you hanging out?
1:28 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, am I? No, I'm not.
1:31 Declan Donnelly? He's not, he's not.
1:32 Ant McPartlin? I'm hanging out, I'm ready for a hang.
1:34 Declan Donnelly? Lovely to be with you once again for this bonus episode. Today, we spotted the big yellow telephone behind us.
1:42 Ant McPartlin? The banana phone.
1:43 Declan Donnelly? The banana phone.
1:44 Ant McPartlin? The banana phone is back.
1:45 Declan Donnelly? We're gonna bring this out. Sticker on the desk, because apparently we've got a tonne of voicemails to get through.
1:51 Ant McPartlin? Have we?
1:52 Declan Donnelly? Yes.
1:52 Ant McPartlin? We're just straight into it, is it?
1:54 Declan Donnelly? We've had loads of voicemails, thanks for all of those. Do keep them coming in, [email protected] , for the next voicemail bonus ep.
2:03 Ant McPartlin? Needs to be somewhere. Just getting straight into it, mate.
2:05 Declan Donnelly? Well, I just thought there's no point...
2:06 Ant McPartlin? Not even how you're doing.
2:07 Declan Donnelly? How you doing, by the way?
2:08 Ant McPartlin? I'm all right, let's get into it. Come on. First one.
2:12 Declan Donnelly? Oh, you are, Devon, you're right.
2:13 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, here it is.
2:15 Speaker 04 Hi Ant and Dec, I'm Janine from Cardiff. I really enjoy watching your podcast. Anyway, every Christmas I watch Love Actually and every year I forget that you're both in it. So my questions are, how was it appearing in Love Actually? And have you done any other cameos in TVs or films? Thanks, bye.
2:36 Ant McPartlin? Thank you, great question.
2:39 Declan Donnelly? I can remember the night we filmed Love Actually.
2:43 Ant McPartlin? Sorkenau.
2:44 Declan Donnelly? Can you?
2:44 Ant McPartlin? Yes, I can.
2:45 Declan Donnelly? Because there was a very big football match on. Newcastle United were in the Champions League, playing against Feyenoord.
2:52 Ant McPartlin? Feyenoord.
2:53 Declan Donnelly? And it was an incredibly dramatic game and we won by scoring a goal in the last minute.
2:59 Ant McPartlin? We were going to go to the game, we were going to go over to Holland.
3:01 Declan Donnelly? And we got a call from Richard Curtis.
3:03 Ant McPartlin? He said, "Do you want to be in this film?"
3:05 Declan Donnelly? We went, "Mm, but there's a football match on."
3:07 Ant McPartlin? And we were going to go to it and it's Champions League. Well, okay, I'll be in your movie.
3:11 Declan Donnelly? So instead we hung out with Bill Nighy and shot all of our Love Actually bits on that night.
3:16 Ant McPartlin? We did.
3:17 Declan Donnelly? It was really good fun.
3:18 Ant McPartlin? It was really good.
3:19 Declan Donnelly? And Bill Nighy was the nicest man on earth, as you would imagine. He's lovely, isn't he?
3:24 Ant McPartlin? He's a lovely man. I've spoke to him since being in there and...
3:28 Declan Donnelly? What?
3:30 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, I've...
3:31 Declan Donnelly? When have you been hanging out with Bill Nighy?
3:32 Ant McPartlin? I've seen Bill Nighy a couple of times.
3:34 Declan Donnelly? Where?
3:34 Ant McPartlin? Just round and about, just different places and...
3:37 Declan Donnelly? What kind of places?
3:38 Ant McPartlin? Well, just, you know, coffee shops, whatever. And we've got...
3:42 Declan Donnelly? What coffee shops? Whereabouts?
3:44 Ant McPartlin? Just in town. And we've got each other's number and we text each other every now and again.
3:48 Declan Donnelly? What?
3:49 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, I text Bill Nighy every now and again.
3:50 Declan Donnelly? No, you do not.
3:51 Ant McPartlin? I do.
3:51 Declan Donnelly? No, you're just doing this to make me jealous.
3:53 Ant McPartlin? Here we go. There we go. Okay.
3:56 Declan Donnelly? Oh my God, he's got Bill Nighy's phone number and they've been texting.
4:02 Speaker 05 No, when was the last time you texted?
4:04 Ant McPartlin? Ah, a year ago.
4:07 Speaker 05 What was the text?
4:09 Ant McPartlin? I'm not telling you. It's private. It's private messages between me and Bill Nighy. Does that mean I've gone 2-1 up? Or do I need a photograph with Bill Nighy?
4:16 Declan Donnelly? Do I?
4:16 Ant McPartlin? You've just made those rules up.
4:18 Declan Donnelly? You could, that could be anybody. You could have just changed the name.
4:20 Ant McPartlin? Clearly it's not anybody. It's Bill Nighy.
4:22 Declan Donnelly? That could be your mum and you've changed mum to Bill Nighy.
4:25 Ant McPartlin? Well, my mum doesn't swear this much. Look at that message there.
4:30 Declan Donnelly? Oh, yeah.
4:31 Ant McPartlin? Exactly, Bill. We'll have to bleep that.
4:34 Declan Donnelly? When you see him, does he, does he say hello, Ant or Deck?
4:38 Ant McPartlin? No, he doesn't. But a lot of people do.
4:40 Declan Donnelly? Yeah, they do.
4:40 Ant McPartlin? Don't they? A lot of people think they're very funny and that we haven't heard that before.
4:44 Declan Donnelly? Does he, um, ask after me?
4:47 Ant McPartlin? Yes, yes, he does. Yes, he does.
4:48 Declan Donnelly? Does he?
4:49 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, of course he does.
4:49 Declan Donnelly? Ah, that's nice. I knew he would.
4:52 Ant McPartlin? Look how thrilled he genuinely truly is.
4:54 Declan Donnelly? Really am.
4:54 Ant McPartlin? Does he? Does he? Me? Look at all me. Yes, after me. Me!
4:59 Declan Donnelly? I knew he would.
5:00 Ant McPartlin? Me!
5:01 Declan Donnelly? Because he's the loveliest man on earth.
5:03 Ant McPartlin? He is. A very good actor and he was great. Actually, he was really good to be in the scenes with, wasn't he? Because he was just very generous and not like a stuck up actor. You can imagine that some actors, when two TV hosts have been cast in a movie, might be like, what? Really? But he was, he was the gent.
5:21 Declan Donnelly? We did play the perfect parts in that, though.
5:23 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, we did.
5:24 Declan Donnelly? TV hosts.
5:25 Ant McPartlin? We did.
5:26 Declan Donnelly? It was the roles we were born to play.
5:27 Ant McPartlin? Played ourselves. And to be honest with you, I agree with what she says because I forget I'm in that movie. And it's on a Christmas and I'll sit down and watching it and then I'm like, oh God, yeah, I'm in this.
5:36 Declan Donnelly? Every year, we get a flurry of text messages going.
5:39 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, we do.
5:39 Declan Donnelly? Just watched Love Actually for the first time this year. Forgot you were in it. Got it every single year.
5:46 Ant McPartlin? Well, we've done little bits in TV shows throughout the years.
5:49 Declan Donnelly? Are you Jungle Jim?
5:51 Ant McPartlin? Shut up. Shut up. Shut up. Shut up.
5:55 Declan Donnelly? Are you Jungle Jim?
5:56 Ant McPartlin? Shut up.
5:59 Ant McPartlin? Shut up.
5:59 Declan Donnelly? Are you Jungle Jim?
6:00 Ant McPartlin? Shut up. Shut up, my Jungle Jim. That's all I'm saying. Because you lot will research it and Google it and, yes, I was Jungle Jim. Stop it. Stop it.
6:12 Declan Donnelly? Free Jungle Jim.
6:12 Ant McPartlin? Stop it. Lola, stop it. Stop it. You'll never find it. You'll never find it unless I give you more details, which I won't.
6:21 Declan Donnelly? He's bought all rights to it and burned it.
6:23 Ant McPartlin? No, I'm not going to tell you. I'm not going to tell you. You do the work.
6:26 Declan Donnelly? We were together as, as PJ and Doug on another TV show and one of the hosts of the show came up to Ant and went. Are you Jungle Jim? I was like, what is this?
6:38 Ant McPartlin? I was Jungle Jim, yeah. I played Jungle Jim in a Disney
6:43 Ant McPartlin? little sketch show thing. Years and years ago. I'd left Bytogrove, but I'd spent all me money, so I needed to do so I needed to do any jobs I could to keep the lights on.
6:54 Ant McPartlin? So yeah, I ended up playing, it was like Tarzan, but my character was Jungle Jim. So that's it. That's all I'm gonna tell you. You won't be able to find it now. This is a deep dive. I've erased it from the internet.
7:04 Speaker 05 Without Deck?
7:04 Declan Donnelly? Yeah.
7:05 Ant McPartlin? Without Deck, yeah. Deck was too busy doing Spender. Is it Spender?
7:10 Declan Donnelly? Uh, no, it was the other one. Harry.
7:12 Ant McPartlin? Harry, that was it.
7:13 Declan Donnelly? I was Motorcycle Thug 2 in Harry.
7:16 Ant McPartlin? You need to get my motor mind. Oh, don't get on your thug.
7:20 Declan Donnelly? I did too. I did a couple of roles. I did Motorcycle Thug 2 in Harry, which was a North East based drama thing with Michael Elfick, who played a hard-nosed cop called Harry.
7:29 Ant McPartlin? Yeah.
7:31 Declan Donnelly? And I played Peter the Stable Boy in Catherine Cookson's The Cinder Path.
7:35 Ant McPartlin? Stable Boy?
7:37 Declan Donnelly? Where I had two lines.
7:38 Ant McPartlin? Go on.
7:39 Declan Donnelly? One was,
7:41 Declan Donnelly? "What's going on, Mr. Charlie?"
7:43 Ant McPartlin? That's good.
7:44 Declan Donnelly? And another one, hmm, I don't know, I think I had one like.
7:48 Ant McPartlin? Did you have a line as Motorcycle Thug in Harry?
7:51 Declan Donnelly? Yeah, I did, but I can't remember that.
7:52 Ant McPartlin? Right.
7:53 Declan Donnelly? I did say something.
7:54 Ant McPartlin? I was also in, which you've seen, I was in Why Don't You? The kids TV show. And they used to do different gangs every year. Like you'd have like the Liverpool gang, the Cardiff gang. And one and only year they'd done a Newcastle gang. And that was my first ever job in Telly, was Why Don't You? And it was fun. Got paid nothing. I got a free Johnny Hitch Jazz CD and a jacket. That was my payment for doing, I swear to God, that was it. They give every cast member a CD and you're allowed to wear the clothes that you wore for filming. You're allowed to keep the clothes.
8:27 Declan Donnelly? Was it a shell suit or?
8:28 Ant McPartlin? No, it was like a ski jacket.
8:30 Declan Donnelly? Oh, like a capri?
8:31 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was like that.
8:33 Speaker 05 Still got it?
8:34 Ant McPartlin? Uh, no, I don't have it. Thank you.
8:36 Declan Donnelly? Not in your memorabilia box?
8:37 Ant McPartlin? No, I give it a deck fit in.
8:41 Declan Donnelly? Okay, let's move straight on.
8:41 Ant McPartlin? Oh yeah, well we've already had one voice note, come on. Let's have another voice note.
8:45 Declan Donnelly? Let's have another voice note.
8:47 Speaker 06 Hi Ant and Dec, it's Maddie from Essex.
8:49 Ant McPartlin? Hi Maddie from Essex.
8:49 Speaker 06 So last year, I realised that I had no hobbies aside from working, lol. So I started to play paddle, just like every other person on planet Earth. And I was wondering, do you guys have any hobbies that you do away from work?
9:03 Declan Donnelly? Thanks Maddie.
9:03 Ant McPartlin? Thanks Maddie, good question.
9:04 Declan Donnelly? I like the sound of Maddie.
9:05 Ant McPartlin? I do.
9:06 Declan Donnelly? Lol.
9:06 Ant McPartlin? Lol.
9:10 Ant McPartlin? Lol, yeah we do, we like golf. We've said it before on this podcast, we love golf, we love everything about it. We've got Little Society that we play golf with, and we've been playing golf with for 20 years, like 22 years. And we golf in Portugal, we've golfed in Dubai, we've golfed in Vegas.
9:29 Declan Donnelly? You name it.
9:30 Ant McPartlin? We've golfed it.
9:31 Declan Donnelly? Not quite.
9:32 Ant McPartlin? Do you do anything I don't know about?
9:35 Declan Donnelly? Don't think so, do I have any other hobbies?
9:36 Ant McPartlin? Do you play paddle?
9:38 Declan Donnelly? No, I'd love to play paddle, just never gotten round to it.
9:40 Ant McPartlin? No, I've tried it, it is fun, have you tried it?
9:43 Declan Donnelly? No.
9:44 Ant McPartlin? You've never been on the court?
9:44 Declan Donnelly? No. Pickleball?
9:46 Ant McPartlin? Hmm, what do you call it?
9:48 Declan Donnelly? Pickleball? That's another thing, isn't it?
9:50 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, yeah, it's very, it's very American pickleball, is it? I think so.
9:54 Declan Donnelly? Is that not the same as paddle?
9:55 Ant McPartlin? Nah, pickleball is a smaller ball with holes in. I think it's like tennis, but slower. Pickleball, am I right?
10:03 Speaker 06 It's like tennis for babies, I think.
10:05 Ant McPartlin? Tennis for babies, or for older people, so you'd be great at it.
10:07 Declan Donnelly? Yeah, I don't want to.
10:10 Declan Donnelly? I don't quite know which category you're putting me in there.
10:14 Declan Donnelly? Babies or older people?
10:18 Declan Donnelly? I straddle ball.
10:19 Ant McPartlin? Oh come on, blimey, governor.
10:28 Ant McPartlin? Oh god, we need a holiday, we need a holiday.
10:31 Declan Donnelly? Is there any other hobbies? I don't think I do have, I'm trying to choose this subject.
10:39 Declan Donnelly? Any other hobbies? I like the odd jigsaw.
10:45 Ant McPartlin? Oh God.
10:49 Ant McPartlin? Let's get this over with. Go on. Any other hobbies?
10:52 Declan Donnelly? Any other hobbies? No, none to report.
10:54 Ant McPartlin? No, I did rock climbing for a while.
10:57 Declan Donnelly? Did you?
10:57 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, I was into it, really into it.
10:59 Declan Donnelly? Indoor rock climbing?
11:00 Ant McPartlin? Indoor rock climbing. Yeah, not outdoor. I even got, I got quite good at it. It got me on rock climbing shoes.
11:05 Declan Donnelly? Just you. It's not like you took to buy all of the equipment.
11:08 Ant McPartlin? And then after that, I fell out of love with it.
11:09 Declan Donnelly? Yeah, funny that.
11:10 Ant McPartlin? Yeah.
11:11 Declan Donnelly? No, I haven't done that.
11:12 Ant McPartlin? We need to get you out more.
11:14 Declan Donnelly? I like it. I like a jigsaw.
11:16 Ant McPartlin? Any suggestions for hobbies that you think Deck would like, then please send them in. Hangingoutabelltobox.com.
11:21 Declan Donnelly? Let's have another voice.
11:22 Ant McPartlin? Okay.
11:23 Speaker 07 Absolutely love the podcast. My question is, do you ever wonder what you're going to do, like when you get old? As in, old, old. Do you think you'll still be like going like you are now and be kind of Bruce Forsyth style? Where, you know, you're, you're literally still on TV till you're almost dead? Or do you think like you'll kind of know when to, enough is enough? And so what do you plan on doing with retirement?
11:52 Ant McPartlin? Well, you're either eating a sweet, you know, eating a sweet whilst we're calling it that, or unfolding a large bit of paper.
11:59 Declan Donnelly? I don't see myself still doing what we're doing when I'm like 80.
12:04 Ant McPartlin? You don't?
12:05 Declan Donnelly? No, in, in, what was that now? In 50 years' time? 30 years' time.
12:11 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, go on.
12:12 Declan Donnelly? No, I don't, I don't.
12:13 Ant McPartlin? Don't be retired by then.
12:14 Declan Donnelly? Oh, I think so.
12:15 Ant McPartlin? With the grandkids.
12:16 Declan Donnelly? Playing golf.
12:16 Ant McPartlin? Playing golf.
12:17 Declan Donnelly? In the sun.
12:18 Ant McPartlin? Do you think she would like us to stop?
12:20 Declan Donnelly? That's the vibe I got.
12:21 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, that's the vibe I got. She's a bit annoyed that we're still doing it.
12:23 Declan Donnelly? It was almost like, hi guys, how much longer is this going on for?
12:28 Ant McPartlin? It was. Yeah, it was that. So for that, I'm going to continue till I'm 93.
12:33 Declan Donnelly? Do you know the lovely thing for us is that kind of our career has just taken twists and turns all the way. So you never know what's going to come next. You never.
12:41 Ant McPartlin? I never thought we'd be doing a podcast.
12:43 Declan Donnelly? No.
12:43 Ant McPartlin? Did you?
12:43 Declan Donnelly? No, absolutely not. It's just, that just came out of the blue and yeah, so we never quite know what we're going to do next. Never mind what we're going to be doing in 10, 20.
12:53 Ant McPartlin? 30 years, so.
12:56 Declan Donnelly? Watch this space.
12:57 Ant McPartlin? Maureen. What's she called, Maureen? Sounds like a Maureen.
13:00 Speaker 05 Katie.
13:01 Ant McPartlin? Katie. Watch this space, Katie.
13:04 Declan Donnelly? So already losing his memory.
13:06 Ant McPartlin? All right, here's the next one. Hello, Anne and Deck. This is Jane from Austin, Texas. I have a question for you. I see there's a show coming on.
13:14 Declan Donnelly? Celebrity get me out here in Africa. So my question is, which one of you is the fastest runner from those animals? Oh, Jane, in Austin, Texas. She's, I'll reach, we've reached Austin, Texas.
13:27 Ant McPartlin? Austin, Texas.
13:28 Declan Donnelly? Who's the fastest runner from the animals and I'm a celebrity South Africa? Well, Jane, thankfully for us, we have a very fancy hotel where we don't need to run from the animals.
13:37 Ant McPartlin? No, we don't, thank goodness.
13:38 Declan Donnelly? We're pretty good. We stay in like a nature reserve out there.
13:41 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, we do. It's beautiful.
13:43 Declan Donnelly? The first time we went to South Africa to film the show, they put us in our lodges to, you know, settle in and unpack. They said, so, you know, these are your patio doors. You've got a little swimming pool out there. Make sure you keep your patio doors closed because the baboons will come round and let themselves in if you leave your doors unlocked.
13:59 Ant McPartlin? Let themselves in?
14:01 Declan Donnelly? And they said, there is a walking trail. You can go walk in or go for a jog, but make sure you're back before dusk because if you're out there, the leopard will think you're, it's dinner. So I was like, I stayed in.
14:14 Ant McPartlin? No walking, no jogging, no running.
14:16 Declan Donnelly? I went for one swim in my pool. There was a little plunge pool outside. I went for one swim and I heard something rustling in the trees. Out, dry, in, closed door, lock, curtains closed.
14:28 Ant McPartlin? Lights off. When I went out there for the first, I was like, oh my God, this is beautiful. Opened the doors, walked out and I heard
14:37 Ant McPartlin? warthog. Really, really wonderful. So I forget your question.
14:40 Declan Donnelly? Who's the fastest runner from the animals?
14:42 Ant McPartlin? So as in us two?
14:43 Declan Donnelly? Yeah.
14:44 Ant McPartlin? Who would run the fastest?
14:45 Declan Donnelly? Well, I think you look more meaty, so they would go for you.
14:48 Ant McPartlin? Meaty? I don't look meaty.
14:49 Declan Donnelly? Well, you know what I mean? You've got, you know.
14:52 Ant McPartlin? What do you think? What, they just leave you behind?
14:54 Declan Donnelly? Yeah, I think I look a bit unsatisfying.
14:58 Ant McPartlin? I'm a larger bite, am I?
15:00 Declan Donnelly? They'll go, go for the big one. And that gives me a clear run.
15:03 Ant McPartlin? I see.
15:03 Declan Donnelly? We've done Australia so many times now that we're kind of used to the wildlife.
15:06 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, we are used to the wildlife, used to the snakes, used to the spiders.
15:09 Declan Donnelly? In South Africa, it's a different story. We're not used to all of that.
15:12 Ant McPartlin? When you film the show, down where the trials are, the baboons are wild, aren't they? They're just.
15:17 Declan Donnelly? Oh, they're crazy.
15:18 Ant McPartlin? They're crazy. They just make a little noise and it sounds like people shouting. It's like, oh, ah, ah, oh, oh, ah, ah. The first time you, it is the first time you hear it, you're like.
15:27 Declan Donnelly? What is it again?
15:28 Ant McPartlin? Oh, ah, oh, ah, oh, ah. So it's really scary. You think it's people having an argument, but it's the baboons. And we were doing a trial the first time we did South Africa. And it was, we had a load of rotten fruit and veg, which was part of the trial. That must smell amazing to the baboons.
15:45 Declan Donnelly? Yeah.
15:45 Ant McPartlin? And they got closer and closer, this family baboons, to the trial when we were filming it. And they all sat on the rocks, just like watching, licking lips. So we're like, let's get this trial and get out of here and leave them with their peelings.
15:57 Declan Donnelly? I don't know if it was the rotten fruit and veg, or Paul Burrow does look quite tasty as well.
16:01 Ant McPartlin? He looks tasty. Yeah, he looks tasty. Two baboon.
16:03 Declan Donnelly? He's a tasty morsel.
16:04 Ant McPartlin? Oh, that's like a succulent pig.
16:09 Declan Donnelly? Let's have another voice note.
16:10 Speaker 06 Hi, Ant and Dec, Amy here.
16:12 Ant McPartlin? Hi, Amy.
16:12 Speaker 06 Thanks to Spotify, they've been recommending some Ant and Dec music.
16:16 Declan Donnelly? Ooh.
16:17 Speaker 06 From back in the day.
16:18 Declan Donnelly? Sorry.
16:18 Speaker 06 I'm a 94 baby, so I was probably a bit too young to remember all the music.
16:23 Declan Donnelly? You were, baby.
16:24 Speaker 06 I do remember We're on the Ball, the legendary football song you released. I'd love to know how that came about. Did you get any input in writing the song? Um, and making the video? And, um, did you see yourselves being up there with the likes of The Lightning Seeds and Baddiel and Skinner? I obviously remember, uh, Ant dressing up as Svengor and Erickson on SMTV quite a few times. Lots of love. Bye.
16:51 Declan Donnelly? Oh, thank you.
16:52 Ant McPartlin? Thanks, Amy. Good question. Uh, yes, we did hope that we would be the next Baddiel and Skinner, but no, we didn't really.
16:59 Declan Donnelly? Didn't quite reach those.
17:01 Ant McPartlin? Hasn't really hung around as, as, uh, as long as it's coming home.
17:04 Declan Donnelly? I'll tell you how it came about. Um, we got a phone call from Sony Records back in 2001, 2002. And they said, uh, we need to do a World Cup record for the Japan.
17:16 Ant McPartlin? Or two.
17:17 Declan Donnelly? Japan or two.
17:18 Ant McPartlin? 2002.
17:19 Declan Donnelly? Um, the World Cup in 2002. Um, we've got the record, we know what the song is, it's gonna be We're on the Ball. Will you guys record it? I'm like, yeah, okay, that could be a laugh. And they're like, we'll, we'll get you some free tickets to the World Cup, which we still never got.
17:33 Ant McPartlin? No, we didn't get it.
17:33 Declan Donnelly? We never went.
17:34 Ant McPartlin? No, we never.
17:34 Declan Donnelly? So we thought, oh, the song's already done, that's easy, we'll just, we'll just do that. And then we turn up and they went, oh, actually, yeah, there are no lyrics to the song. All we've got is we're on the ball, we're on the ball. So you need to write the verses. We took a morning, didn't we, round at my house?
17:47 Ant McPartlin? We did.
17:48 Declan Donnelly? And put the song on and just wrote the, wrote the two verses and the, and the bits. So we wrote the verses.
17:53 Ant McPartlin? So the first were like from Neville to Heskey, Heskey this goes. And then we kind of just went through the players who were in the squad at the time. But by the time the record came out, a few of the players weren't in the squad anymore. And they didn't make the World Cup, did they?
18:07 Declan Donnelly? No, I don't think they did.
18:08 Ant McPartlin? That was a shame. And it's not really a song that's repeatable because it's very of that time.
18:13 Declan Donnelly? Yeah.
18:14 Ant McPartlin? Which we should have thought about.
18:15 Declan Donnelly? We should, we should update it for the World Cup this summer.
18:17 Ant McPartlin? Do you think?
18:18 Declan Donnelly? Yeah. Do you think we should do that?
18:19 Ant McPartlin? Put new lyrics in there, put new players in there.
18:21 Declan Donnelly? New players in there.
18:22 Ant McPartlin? Just Newcastle players.
18:23 Declan Donnelly? Could do. Plenty of them in the squad.
18:25 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, there is.
18:25 Declan Donnelly? Um, yeah, let's, maybe we'll update that. Let me tell you about the video shoot. Right. They said, we're taking you up to Leeds because England are playing a friendly up in Leeds. And all the squad are there. So you're going to make the video and you've got all the squad.
18:40 Ant McPartlin? So you'll be able to mess about with the squad. They'll get involved. They'll, they'll definitely want to be involved in the video. So come on, we'll shoot it.
18:47 Declan Donnelly? So we went up and saw the squad from about 300 metres away. Never met any of them.
18:53 Ant McPartlin? Yeah.
18:54 Declan Donnelly? Didn't get time with any of them.
18:55 Ant McPartlin? Not one of them wanted to be in the video.
18:57 Declan Donnelly? So the idea was that we were going to kidnap Svengorin Eriksson and his assistant, Todd Grip, and take their place to infiltrate the, the team so we could go to the World Cup in Japan. So we do a scene in there where we're doing tactics to the team and it was supposed to be the team, but we couldn't get any of the team. So we had to dress up as the team. So I ended up dressing as David Beckham.
19:17 Ant McPartlin? I was semen.
19:18 Declan Donnelly? David semen with a long ponytail.
19:20 Ant McPartlin? I like that. That's good.
19:21 Declan Donnelly? We dressed up as members of the, and we were just doing this on the hoof like, we haven't got any players in this video. We're going to have to dress up as them.
19:27 Speaker 05 It's quite fun though, dressing up as them.
19:29 Declan Donnelly? Yeah, it's quite dressable too.
19:30 Ant McPartlin? Yeah. And also not what we hoped. We hoped we'd meet the players and have a laugh with the players, but they wouldn't, they didn't want to play a ball. Misurable.
19:38 Declan Donnelly? Well, they did want to play a ball. That's all they wanted to do was play a ball. Not play with us.
19:44 Ant McPartlin? Yeah. But look, that's another thing, like talking about our career. Who would have thought we would ever have released an official World Cup song?
19:51 Declan Donnelly? I know.
19:52 Ant McPartlin? You know?
19:52 Declan Donnelly? That just again came out of the blue. You never quite know what's going to happen. And because we did the World Cup song, we got invited to the Beckham's World Cup party.
20:02 Ant McPartlin? Japanese themed woke up party. David was there with Victoria shaking your hands and Elton John was there.
20:07 Declan Donnelly? Yes.
20:07 Ant McPartlin? Wasn't he on the entrance, went to his truck our hands. And it was massive, like a massive hall of, you know, free course dinner and David got up and as he was the captain at the time, so he got up and spoke.
20:18 Declan Donnelly? We were on a table with Boy George.
20:20 Ant McPartlin? Yes.
20:21 Declan Donnelly? And his friend, a guy called Philip Salon.
20:23 Ant McPartlin? Philip Salon, that was it.
20:25 Declan Donnelly? And.
20:25 Ant McPartlin? Who had the funniest haircut ever.
20:28 Declan Donnelly? Well, it wasn't a haircut.
20:29 Ant McPartlin? Wasn't a haircut.
20:29 Declan Donnelly? He was, he was completely bald, but on his head, in his, in his little bag, so they were dressed really flamboyantly. In his bag, he had a can of shaving foam and he did a big Mr. Whippy on his head.
20:42 Ant McPartlin? He did, that was, that was his hairdo.
20:43 Declan Donnelly? That was his hairdo. So then we'd have like, we were sitting there having starter and you could see it starting kind of slide and then depress a bit. So after every course, he went to the toilet and redid it and came back for the, for another course.
20:55 Ant McPartlin? Brilliant, eh? That is commitment.
20:57 Declan Donnelly? But it was brilliant.
20:59 Ant McPartlin? He looked fantastic, I have to say. I'm gonna try that one day. Maybe next week. I can't believe I'm gonna do me hair.
21:08 Declan Donnelly? And then I'll have to grow a beard because my shaving foam will have gone.
21:11 Ant McPartlin? Let's have one more, come on.
21:12 Declan Donnelly? Time for one more. Here we go, last one. Hello, I would like to ask a question for both Ant and Dec. Do either of them remember who their first school crush was on? And how old were they at the time? Thank you for your question. Who is that?
21:31 Speaker 05 Mr. Frank.
21:33 Declan Donnelly? Hello, Mr. Frank.
21:34 Ant McPartlin? Thank you, Mr. Frank.
21:35 Declan Donnelly? First school crush and who was it on?
21:38 Ant McPartlin? Well, I'm not gonna name names because it's unfair to the person, but I was in primary school. Remember it. And there was a girl who I had a real crush on. Uh, so I must have been, that's before we went to big schools, I must have been like nine, eight, nine. And I remember I had a little red skateboard like Bart Simpson.
22:01 Declan Donnelly? Cowabunga!
22:03 Ant McPartlin? And I remember skateboarding from my house.
22:05 Declan Donnelly? To show off.
22:06 Ant McPartlin? I found out, no, no, I just found out where she lived. So I skateboarded all the way from my house, all the way. She lived near the school and I lived a little bit away from my primary school.
22:14 Declan Donnelly? Yeah.
22:15 Ant McPartlin? So I skateboarded all the way along as a nine year old, skateboarded like, it was, there was a slight gradient to the hill.
22:21 Declan Donnelly? Oh.
22:22 Ant McPartlin? So my legs were burning by the time I got there and hand delivered.
22:25 Declan Donnelly? Valentine's.
22:25 Ant McPartlin? Valentine's Day cards.
22:28 Ant McPartlin? I know.
22:28 Speaker 05 How did she respond?
22:29 Ant McPartlin? She loved it. And then she came around to mind to play with my science kit. The following week. Nice cute, eh?
22:39 Declan Donnelly? That's very cute. My first school crush, I think, was on a teacher.
22:44 Ant McPartlin? Was it?
22:44 Declan Donnelly? Yes.
22:45 Ant McPartlin? What was he called?
22:45 Declan Donnelly? Mr Frank.
22:48 Declan Donnelly? No, it was on my primary school teacher.
22:50 Ant McPartlin? Uh huh.
22:50 Declan Donnelly? And she had big blonde curly hair. Right up my street. Even as a six year old, five, six, seven year old. And she was lovely and kind and lovely. And I was like, oh, I had a bit of a crush. I had a real soft spot for mine.
23:05 Ant McPartlin? Did you ever write in your book like, I heart?
23:08 Declan Donnelly? No.
23:09 Ant McPartlin? Her name?
23:09 Declan Donnelly? No, I didn't.
23:10 Ant McPartlin? No, did she ever notice you crushing on her?
23:12 Declan Donnelly? I think so, yeah.
23:13 Ant McPartlin? Yeah.
23:13 Declan Donnelly? Yeah. I was a bit of a teacher's pet.
23:15 Ant McPartlin? Were you?
23:16 Declan Donnelly? Yeah.
23:16 Ant McPartlin? Still is, isn't he? He's like, he is, he is.
23:21 Declan Donnelly? Why are you nodding that? I smashed your face in in a minute.
23:24 Speaker 05 What about celeb crushes when you were younger?
23:27 Declan Donnelly? Toy ball. Hello.
23:30 Ant McPartlin? Um, I tell you who had a big crush on in Adventures in Babysitting.
23:35 Declan Donnelly? Oh.
23:36 Ant McPartlin? And Crotty Kid, Elizabeth Shue.
23:38 Declan Donnelly? Yes.
23:39 Ant McPartlin? Oh.
23:41 Ant McPartlin? And there's a movie called Weird Science, which was out when we were growing up. And Kelly Le Brock was the pin up in it. She was, she was also stunning. They were my two childhood crushes. Yours?
23:51 Declan Donnelly? Um.
23:52 Ant McPartlin? Apart from teachers?
23:53 Declan Donnelly? Glynnis Barber in Dempsey and Makepeace.
23:55 Ant McPartlin? Oh yeah, that's a good one. Mm hmm.
23:57 Declan Donnelly? Do you remember a band called Transvision Vamp?
23:58 Ant McPartlin? Yes.
23:59 Declan Donnelly? Wendy James.
24:00 Ant McPartlin? Yes. Hello.
24:03 Declan Donnelly? Hello.
24:05 Ant McPartlin? We should do it for all of them, actually. We've, we've got Elizabeth Shue.
24:09 Declan Donnelly? Hello.
24:11 Ant McPartlin? Kelly Le Brock.
24:11 Declan Donnelly? Hello. Mr Frank.
24:14 Ant McPartlin? Hello.
24:15 Declan Donnelly? Mr Frank, what are you doing here?
24:16 Ant McPartlin? What are you doing here, Mr Frank?
24:17 Declan Donnelly? Get out of my thoughts, Mr Frank.
24:23 Declan Donnelly? They've all gone.
24:24 Ant McPartlin? Oh.
24:25 Declan Donnelly? They're done.
24:25 Ant McPartlin? That's goodbye.
24:28 Declan Donnelly? Thanks for all your voice notes. Keep them coming in for our next Voice Note Special. Hang it out at beltabox.com.
24:34 Ant McPartlin? Love that. I always like that, yeah.
24:36 Declan Donnelly? I love the voice notes.
24:36 Ant McPartlin? It's good. We don't do a lot. We're just listening to you guys. I love it.
24:39 Declan Donnelly? We'll be back on Thursday.
24:40 Ant McPartlin? Follow me on Pod. See you then.
24:42 Declan Donnelly? But until then.
24:43 Ant McPartlin? Respect, guys.
24:44 Declan Donnelly? Respect, guys.
24:44 Ant McPartlin? See you later.
24:45 Declan Donnelly? See you later.
24:49 Ant McPartlin? Do that for your lights. Bye, love stuff.
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