Quotes by Ant Mcpartlin - Page 2

Our first flat, in South-West London, was a pig-sty. Dec couldn't even cook baked beans. We were like 'Men Behaving Badly.'
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Beans
Badly
Baked
Behaving
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It takes me hours to get to sleep. I just lie there waiting, constantly thinking. I used to make lists, but it became addictive.
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Addictive
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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.
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Elsewhere
Recognise
Alien
Life Look Believe
Obviously
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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.
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Joker
People School Always
Just Kind
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When we used to tour before we would stay in a Travelodge and had to share a room. One of us would have the bed and the other the pull-down sofa.
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Sofa
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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.
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Hard Thing
Instinctively
Sketch
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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!
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Careers
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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.
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Funding
People See Know
Bbc
Licence
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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.
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Rooms
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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.
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Dna
Family History
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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.
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Jealous
Environment
Grove
Hostile
Back To School
Telly
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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.
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Being Funny
Worry
Act
Funny Time Man
Double
Flips
Gets
Line
Straight Man
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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.
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Charming
Lovely
Reactions
Surprise
Celebrities
Element
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I purposely, throughout the whole of my divorce, have not said anything publicly. I've not been on social media or put any of my personal views out there. It's not my style.
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Divorce
Views
Publicly
Purposely
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We never wanted to move to a niche slot at 11 at night so that we could be a lot cleverer and bluer. We just want to do those big light-entertainment shows we loved as kids.
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Niche
Slot
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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.
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Sake
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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!'
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Ambition
Break
Sat
States
Things Happen
God People America
Crack
Oh My God
Ours
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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.
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Bbc
Ratings
Rival
Sketches
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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.
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Popcorn
Professionally
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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.
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Bank
Presented
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The thing about 'CD:U.K.' was, because the show started quite small with small viewing figures and it built and built, the bigger the figures got, the better and bigger the pop star you got.
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Figures
Pop Star
Viewing
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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.
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Pretend
Till
Suffers
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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.
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Love Great I Am
Bake
Bbc
Big Fan
Channel
Heights
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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.
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Working Together
Desperately
Involve
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When our characters in 'Byker Grove,' PJ and Duncan, shared a storyline, we became really close. We'd go out to the pictures, stay at each other's houses, have parties when family members were away.
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Family Members
Grove
Storyline
Houses
Shared
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With 'SMTV' it was a very brave decision by ITV to commission it for a year. It was so awful to start with and the ratings were so low to start with we might never have made it past the first six months.
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Decision
Months
Six
Commission
Low
Ratings
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We have a show very early on called 'Slap Bang' on a Saturday night and it didn't work. It started off peak time and started getting earlier and earlier in the schedule. I think that that taught us you have to adapt.
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Saturday
Saturday Night
Slap
Adapt
Time Work Night
Bang
Earlier
Work Time Night
Peak
Schedule
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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.
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Legacy
Sitcom
Repeated
Whereas
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For years I thought of many other people. As we all do. But we should all step back and say, 'What's making me unhappy? What's not working for me? What can I take out for a bit and take out long-term that will help me a bit?'
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Long Term
Unhappy
Me Step People
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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.
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Heartwarming
Holiday
Lovely
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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.
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Engaging
Excitement
Love Always Your
Love Live Always
Toothbrush
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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.
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Innocence
Mess
Anywhere Else
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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.
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Fickle
Grove
Invites
Realised
Sticks
Dried
Overnight
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We learnt a lot from doing Panto, actually back when we were still doing 'SMTV: Live.' We learnt how far we could push things and the show was all the better for that. I think that taught us you really have to know your audience because you could see how they would react to things.
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How Far
Learnt
React
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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.
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Arms
Crushed
Ear
Flung
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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.
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Annoying
Hosts
Stays
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