Ant McPartlin

“It is brilliant to be able to say 'you have never had a holiday with your wife and your kids, here you go.' It is really lovely and heartwarming and we get to do it. It is lovely to get that opportunity. We remember them all.”

“Going back to school, having done 'Byker Grove' and being on the telly when you're 13, all the kids are very jealous and it can make it a quite hostile environment.”

“Bake Off' will be a hit in Channel 4 terms but I don't think it will ever reach the heights it has on the BBC just because it won't. I love the show I am a big fan of the show, I think it is great.”

“I'm just known as Ant and Dec, even when I'm on my own.”

“Eighteen-year-old guys don't hang around youth centers, or if they do, they're kind of weird.”

“It was never really an ambition of ours to crack the States. Things happen and people ask you to do stuff, but we never sat there and said, 'Oh, my God, we must break America!'”

“We kind of had a rule where we said we're not just going to do something in the States for the sake of it. We would host a show only if we would host the same show back home.”

“I loved my Nintendo 64 growing up.”

“Anyone who suffers from depression knows once you're in it you're in it and you pretend to everybody till the last second of the day you're OK. Or you go the other way and don't leave the house.”

“On 'Takeaway' we wear these little earpieces because the show is live, but if you push them into your ear they go further into your eardrum and really hurt. One woman flung her arms around us and crushed my head so the earpiece went in. I nearly fainted. I lost my vision for a bit.”

“What's annoying is we've launched a lot of shows like 'Pop Idol,' and then it goes to the States, and everything stays the same, yet they change the hosts. 'I'm A Celebrity' has been done twice in America now - but they changed the hosts. 'America's Got Talent,' we don't host - somebody else hosts.”

“I always read interviews with people and they say I was a right joker at school, I was a right loner at school - but I was just kind of average.”

“I do believe that nurture has a great deal to do with how you end up as a human being.”

“In my job, having what they call 'popcorn thinking' is good because it means you can jump from one thing to another. Professionally it's brilliant. Personally I'm all over the place.”

“In our day-to-day lives we're not very introspective - especially not British northern blokes.”

“I think I'm quite up and down, I'm quite hyper. Either hyper up or down.”

“We're really excited to be partnering with Santander. They presented us with a really fun creative which we couldn't resist, who would say no to having their own bank brought to life.”

“We always hark back to what we used to love watching as kids: 'Noel's House Party,' 'Don't Forget Your Toothbrush,' shows that had that live excitement about them. You never knew what was going to happen and I found that really engaging.”

“A divorce will always change your life because it's such an upheaval. It's such a change.”

“Sometimes we spend 20 minutes just watching Carol Vorderman brush her hair in the mornings.”