A biography for Ant McPartlinhasn’t been written yet.
“I've got ADHD. I don't mind talking about that.”
“You shouldn't worry who gets the funny line, just that you're being funny as a double act. With us, it flips all the time. There's no real straight man or funny man.”
“I think Jonathan Ross is brilliant.”
“I've took stock of things and said, 'Right I've got to think of me.'”
“We left 'Byker Grove,' had a short recording career and suddenly it finished. The invites to premieres dried up and overnight things stopped. We realised very quickly how fickle this business is. Thinking you've lost it all makes you appreciate it a lot more and it sticks with you.”
“There's no excuse for drink-driving.”
“There's this working-class guilt - you don't want to be flashy.”
“The difference between doing a live show and a sitcom is that a sitcom can live on. If you do it well, it can leave a legacy, whereas most of our live work never gets repeated because it's final, it's done, you start again.”
“If either of us really desperately wanted to do anything on our own it wouldn't be a problem. But we think of projects that involve the two of us. We actually like working together. It's what we do.”
“I think you can show off too much, and that would have been such a no-no from me growing up.”
“Not bipolar, but I lean towards manicness and then lowness.”
“Obviously there's some kind of life elsewhere. I don't know whether it would look like anything we recognise but I do believe in aliens.”
“We're never really spotted falling out of nightclubs. We don't go to places where there are photographers hanging out.”
“We're just grateful, we learn to be in moment and enjoy what we're doing.”
“I was a massive arachnophobe - I just hated spiders.”
“I would say I've definitely been humbled for the better.”
“I'd love to be able to play the piano.”
“I've re-evaluated everything in my life.”
“We've seen people who have a 'make-under' just to try and recapture that Susan Boyle moment but it doesn't work like that.”
“Our first flat, in South-West London, was a pig-sty. Dec couldn't even cook baked beans. We were like 'Men Behaving Badly.'”