Ant & Dec Prepare to Say Goodbye to Saturday Night Takeaway After 20 Years | This Morning

They’ve been a staple in millions of living rooms across the country on Saturday night for the past 2 decades and had us laughing (and crying) at their antics – from celebrity undercovers to all-out pranks. But now, as Ant and Dec prepare to rest their iconic ‘Saturday Night Takeaway’, we join them for a trip down memory lane live from their studio ahead of tomorrow night’s show.

Broadcast on 23/02/2024
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On to the SAT Night Takeaway Studio to be joined by an deck thanks for having us hello buddy hello buddy you can have a little strong isn’t he Beau Goron’s contract she can’t turn up to anywhere without a dog in her arms it’s true we met buddy way this morning

Before he was called buddy he didn’t have a name when we met him so it’s nice to see him now he’s buddy it’s a lovely name as well yeah it is so good to see you 20 years can you believe it 22 years 20 series I think 22 years 20 series wow

I’m sort of not talking to either of you well I’m definitely not talking to you are you oh that was best afternoon of my life and I include my son being born and getting married it was being in your ear was so sweet should we start there and explain

What happened so we did we did um we did Revenge get out of my ear where we let everybody who we’ve pranked over the years um be in in our ear and tell us what to do for a change and it started with these two in my ear it was a

Terrible terrible idea but we thought one day we thought wouldn’t it be fun if we let if we turn the tables we’ll wear the earpiece and let a lot of people who we’ve pranked in the past come and put us through our Paces you were all incredibly evil great and the worst

Thing is the F Well the funny thing is everybody cleared their diary everyone said yes the easiest of my life I was listen I don’t I’ve got no time you kept pushing a derit there was a bit with a Sunderland scarf on a hat that he

Wouldn’t let go I’ll let you watch it and see but yeah thanks for that you that’s com that’s coming up towards the end of the series well mind you I had you two in my ear and but de de had Simon C and Amanda Holland and Simon

Didn’t really get the memo that you sometimes you got to pull back and then do nice stuff and bad stuff he just he was just off the scale absolutely the ignore him just like ignore everything quite a lot of it was ignored and then we went out for dinner into a restaurant

Which was rigged with hidden cameras none of the other diners knew none of the staff knew there was one person the manager knew that that that was a hidden camera hit and we had Ryan and Holly um Gino dampo and deina OE M and A mausi

Cheryl uh uh who else was who else was there on just it was hell it was hell I can’t wait to see it honestly the first thing that got us to do was go Okay now click your fingers for the wi oh oh come on who does

That it’s brilliant are we getting all the classics are we getting a little Lantern deck because that’s my favorite thing ever we’ve decided as it’s series 20 we are going to bring back Classics from the past 20 years um and we decided we we had to bring back L Lon deck but

Obviously not L Lon deck we’ve got new lit lanon decks because the originals are are taller than us the the second lot that we had taller than us so we’ve got brand new little ltech and they make their debut on tomorrow night show they’re very cute five five and six and taller than

[Laughter] you almost boys we have to ask why are you stopping it it is honestly it is the best show he’s really upset really one my the thing is you don’t really watch that much live Telly anymore do you you know you always but see there are so few

Appointments to view and and takeway interview for me I love it thank you it’s it feels like the right time series 20 I feel like felt like natur other one bgt or something it felt like a natural time to give the show rest we did it once back in 2009 we gave the

Show a bit of a rest and we reimagined the show we brought it back bigger and better and that’s what we’re thinking this time it feels like the right time and it’s a it’s a year-long thing for us you you know how long it takes when we

Shoot the Undercovers we did yours in July of of that year and you know and then we’re not until February so it’s a all year round thing for us it’s it’s really tiring and we’ve got a lot of other stuff on and um our wives want us

At home for a little bit so we decided to step off the hamster wheel for a bit and kind of step back from the show and reimagine it because you can’t change the show while you’re on it and in it so we want to step back from it have a look

At it and go right what would we do if we were going to change it in any yeah but but what we’ve but this series series 20 we’ve we’re going to go out with a ban we’re going to go out on a high your uh your Wes are probably

Watching this going we never said you we don’t want you home that much be quite like it way careful what they wish for well you do do some incredible pranks and one of the pranks which is wonderful is the cowl prank got a little clip okay

Can you just set it up a little happen so the very first undercover we ever did was on sow we auditioned for American Idol as contestants remember it and we sang the Paul Abdul hit oh there it is so we decided the best way to finish finish the undercover segment of the

Show is to prank Simon cow again but this time we get him on America’s Got Talent you got him again I know I have the only key to all nine padlocks in my hand following it what hello hello anyone a little technical issue give us one second oh great technical issue

Great we went on and we leave him in there he’s in there for about half an hour oh he’s in there for ages and there’s a full audience in the studio he’s in there for half an hour he thinks he’s pre-recording an actor go in the

Final of AGT it all goes wrong and if you think about all the times we’ve had to wait for him on Britain’s Got Talent when they going should we get him out yet we’re going leave him leave him in there leave him for longer leave Karma

This is peach I saw something you posted yesterday out with him on a mountain bike in Malibu as well which is just glorious so that’s the beginning of his day so this this was the end of his day at the beginning of the day he went so

He do this every day for his morning bike ride in Malibu and we staked him out for 3 days so we got what the time he goes his route and everything and we we got an RV parked at the side of the road hidden cameras got two actors to

Play officers on patrol and pulls them up we pull him over on his bike and just ruin his day Simon C on a bike in short is quite a joyous thing to to be that alone is worth tuning in for yeah oh this is the best thing about what will

You miss most about it do you think I mean so many great items down the years um just the I I think you’re right the livess of the whole thing you know live Telly as you know doing this morning is just is the best it’s the best Buzz it’s

You know we’ve got the best team and yeah the people the people in the livess will miss yeah what’s been some of the standout moments for you because I mean taking a plane to Florida it’s always been my favorite seen that dance that you did there oh yeah Florida’s always

Been a nice Jolly I’ll be honest with you last last few years that lovely moment though when you say you you got place on the plane it’s just oh yeah the happiest minute of the week I have to say as is something that we’ve been

Doing for the last few years and it is that is wonderful to be able to surprise people give them the trip of a lifetime that they could probably never afford and take their family is is wonderful a family though you got Flur you got Andy Peters is is our Steven Moran coming

Back mull is back unfortunately oh actually that is the plus thing mullers won’t be on TV as much so yeah yeah good point stop it joking and we love M asleep love that’s how good this interview is going thank God thank God the rest in the

Show not big in the dog world what about the end of the show shows they are epic about we’ve got some good ones coming up tomorrow night is brilliant we’ve got the amazing Becky Hill she’s coming to do a a medley of a lot of her biggest

Hits and we’ve got an amazing and calls it hogra hphy yeah this amazing group called Urban Theory who do all this kind of you will be missed not much cuz you’re on tell a lot you still be missed boys