A biography for Declan Donnellyhasn’t been written yet.
“I always watch the Morecambe and Wise Christmas special.”
“I come from a family of seven, so growing up I always thought I'd like a big family.”
“We saw the band as an acting job - it was an extension of 'Byker Grove.' We were even still called PJ and Duncan.”
“We always had one eye on doing Saturday night TV even when we were back doing mornings. That's where we wanted to go to get a bigger audience.”
“We want to bring the kids, the parents, the grandparents and grandkids together, we want them to have a shared viewing experience. We want the kids to talk about it in the playground, dad to talk about it down the pub, grandma to talk about it while she's out shopping.”
“We treated it as another acting job. Some of these other bands had been put together, and it was their dream come true to be in a band, and that wasn't really the case for us. It was the next part of what we were doing.”
“Ant was the only person who knew I was going to propose.”
“I grew up being called Eamonn-Martin-Dermott-Declan because I was the youngest of the boys and Mum would go through all their names first before she got to mine.”
“Northern Ireland isn't actually part of Great Britain, but we still want it to be part of 'Sofa Watch.'”
“We sat down and talked about who we liked comedy-wise, TV-wise, what made us laugh and what we enjoyed doing. So a lot of our tastes went into 'The Ant and Dec Show.'”
“I do like 'Question Time.'”
“I think from doing so many live shows it gives you a real appreciation of being present. You don't know what's going to happen, you don't know what is around the corner.”
“One of the parts of 'BGT' we love doing the most is going around the country.”
“We always said our career was built on our friendship and that our friendship was the secret of our success. The career just happened by accident.”
“It's a big thing, our relationship with ITV.”
“When times were good, we made more money. When times are bad, we make less money.”
“When we were first doing kids' shows with the BBC they asked us where we wanted to be in a few years' time and we said we want to be where Noel Edmonds is.”
“We were lucky that when we were making the transition from children's to prime time a lot of other presenters our age shied away from that arena.”
“There's been times when it has been tough professionally.”
“I love Leon and June and I love 'Gogglebox,' it's a brilliant show.”