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Telly pairing post £5.5m profits
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SATURDAY Night Takeaway presenters Ant Mcpartlin and Declan Donnelly made £15,124 every day last year.
But that monster sum made up just part of the hosts’ earnings.
It was paid into one of their firms – Hurley Promotions Ltd, named after Ant’s pet dog.
The company’s profits shot up to £5.5million last year. That was £1m more than in 2018 when Ant went into rehab after crashing his car while over the drink-drive limit.
The pals, both 44, are estimated to have made £62m from television shows and advertisements.
In September they will release a book marking their
30 years in entertainment.
Ant’s own fortune took a battering last year during his bitter divorce from his wife Lisa Armstrong.
Meanwhile, their hit show Saturday Night Takeaway attracted 29 complaints over a sketch in which baker Paul Hollywood played an alien planning to infect Earth with a virus.
A spokesman for watchdog Ofcom said: “We are assessing the complaints.” presenters Anthea Turner and in 2009 after just a week, but Helen Skelton, former Strictly the jungle will seem like a professional dancer Brendan picnic compared to the Cole, ex-footballer John challenges she has to face on Fashanu and Hollyoaks the Channel 4 programme.
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PIERS Morgan turned himself into Donald Trump by slapping on too much fake tan. The telly loudmouth admitted he had “over-tangerined” after having to do his own face for an early morning appearance on Good Morning Britain.
The 55-year-old host yesterday told GMB viewers: ”Apparently I have blending issues with my make-up.
“I don’t care. I have no idea what I’m putting on and how to apply it. “I’ve over-tangerined... the tangerine dream. I can only apologise to anyone offended by my orange head.”
Co-host Susanna Reid, 49, told her gobby sidekick: “You’re turning into your friend President Trump.”