BLOOPER SATURDAY
Double act spill the beans on their favourite and scariest moments as they gear up for the 100th edition of their award-winning show
the most nerve-wracking, appearing on Jeremy Kyle as a contributor. I was a guy who had had so much plastic surgery he looked like his own cat.
“I was so scared of going on there. We did it on his American show, so I had to get the accent right. That’s the most nervous I’ve ever been. I have sympathy for his real guests now.
“We’d spent loads of money on it and it was the first one we shot since going back after four years off, so that was an added pressure.
“If I’d walked out there and he’d just gone, ‘Dec, is that you?’… I just didn’t want to make a mess of it.”
Another pranking segment is Get Out of Me Ears where Ant and Dec make celebs do everything they tell them to.
Dec said: “One of my favourites was Richard Madeley, when he had photographers coming around to his house to talk about doing a calendar.
“We made him take a shine to a photographer’s shoes and try them on, then dip his toe into the swimming pool to see how warm it was, still wearing the shoes.”
They are never sure if the ideas for the show will come off – especially as they are live. The first End of the Show Show was with Robbie Williams doing a routine from Singing in the Rain.
Dec said: “We slammed him in the face with a bucket of water each at the end and soaked him. It was at that moment I was like, ‘This works.’ I will always remember that so fondly.”
While they bust out some moves as PJ and Duncan for the video to their No1 hit Let’s Get Ready to Rhumble in 1994, the pair struggled to get to grips with a Riverdance routine in 2013.
Ant said: “That was the hardest to learn. It never went right until we went live. One of us put a step wrong every time we rehearsed it.”
Takeaway started in 2002, stopping in 2010 and was brought back in 2013 and the pals are keen to keep making it bigger and better.
This year, more than 200 winners will be part of the audience for the biggest end of series finale to date, a visit to Universal Orlando Resort.
For Dec, last year’s trip to Walt Disney World will be hard to beat.
He said: “That was amazing. Doing our finale with the castle in the background was something we’d wanted to do for a long time.”
The duo have given away prizes worth thousands in the 15 series of Takeaway but if they were taking part in Win the Ads, would they stick with what they had or gamble to play for all of the prizes?
“Gamble!” they shout in unison. Well, of course they would. ● Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway, STV, Saturday, 7pm.