A biography for Ant McPartlinhasn’t been written yet.
“SM:TV' is where we learned our trade. It was young, we could try out new sketches every week. When we got better ratings than our BBC rival, 'Live And Kicking,' it was amazing.”
“When you're bored, it doesn't necessarily mean the audience is bored.”
“I remember Phillip Schofield saying to us, just before we started 'SMTV: Live'... 'It will be the best fun you will ever have on telly.'You know what the innocence and freedom we got on that show you don't get anywhere else. We could just mess about.”
“Among double acts, Morecambe and Wise are number one, definitely.”
“Obviously, the BBC is funded by licence-payers. If you are paying for a TV licence, when you see what people are paid, then you know you're funding that.”
“We've always wanted to do things with kids with the surprise element that we do with celebrities, because their reactions are fantastic and sweet and charming and lovely.”
“I'm kind of an all-round good guy.”
“It's a very hard thing to explain when we sit with writers on our shows. But then if they show us a sketch, instinctively we'd know who we'd play.”
“I'm a bit of a geek when it comes to historical events, so to get the chance to research our family history using our DNA was too good an opportunity to pass up.”
“I suffer really badly with insomnia.”
“Me and Dec are long in the tooth now - we've seen every Bush Tucker trial there is.”
“If it happens, it happens, but because everything is going so well over here, we're not dying to break America.”
“You can't go through what I've been through without being humbled.”
“We've been in people's living rooms for a long time... It's lucky that 'I'm a Celebrity' and 'Takeaway' have been going on for so long that they trust us.”
“You're somebody and nobody in a split-second. This is a business.”
“To feel love and give love - it's the greatest feeling there is.”
“My dad left the family when I was about 10 and I've seen him sporadically over the years.”
“Some presenters can go their whole careers without even having one of the shows that we've got. It's better than working for a living, let's be honest!”
“I think if you are having fun the audience will have fun too.”
“I was one of four blokes that done drama at my school.”