G’day!

Well, what a week. Camilla had to leave the show, the campers in Exile ate a rat, Kim Woodburn did one of the funniest eating trials EVER and we ended up losing 2 celebrities at the same time! Yes, poor Lucy was voted out, Katie walked out and then dumped her boyfriend LIVE on air during our interview….Phew! Let’s talk about the Katie interview first. She actually mentioned to us she didn’t want to be with Alex anymore seconds before we went live and asked if she could mention it. We had all of our questions prepared on cards but we said she could, so she did, and it was probably one of her most honest and revealing interviews. She said she had been “a twit” over the last 7 months and was “making a fresh start” Not sure what Alex made of it all but Katie seems to have made her mind up. We’re disappointed she’s gone, we thought she would have a better time in there once the public stopped voting for the trials and she could relax a bit more and enjoy the experience, but she’s gone before she got the chance. We will never know if the public would have kept her in, voted her out and even if she could have gone on to win it. We will have to forever wonder!

(To watch highlights and our reactions, click the image below)

Kim’s eating trial was hilarious. It is now in our top 5 Bushtucker trials ever! A lot of people have asked if the producers put the retching noises over the clip… We can categorically say those retching, vomit noises were 100% Kim! What a girl!

Poor Lucy was the first to go as a result of the vote, we don’t think that would have been the case had everyone been up for it, but because of the Bush Battles and so many of them winning immunity it was her making the first walk over the red carpet bridge. We actually thought Lucy could have been the dark horse of this series and get quite far…just goes to show how much we know!

Thank you all so much for my birthday messages, we enjoyed the festivities on the 18th November a little too much and had the live Bushtucker Trial the next day which was also a trial for us two with our hangovers! At least we didn’t actually have to take part!

Thanks for all your messages, please keep them coming, we love reading them after the show before we shoot the Bushtucker Trial. It’s great to hear you’re enjoying the show as much as we are.

Right, we’re off for a quick nine holes of golf, a couple of schooners of Fosters, then bed!

Speak soon,

Check out our latest pics from Oz HERE and read the latest I’m a Celebrity news HERE.

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Well, what about that little lot eh!? Did you guess? Were you expecting any of them? Is there anyone not there that you were expecting? We think it’s a really good line up this year and boy are there a few little surprises in store for them along the way! We’ve been here since last weekend and we’ve been getting ourselves familiar with how the series is going to run this year. The camp has been inhabited over the last few days by a group of stand -in contestants (a bunch of Aussies) we’ve done our rehearsal ‘dry run’ show, and we begin filming pieces today (Friday). We can’t wait to get going properly and get stuck into the show, it’s going to be fun, fun, fun!

It hasn’t been all work, work, work out here, as you would expect. There has been a little leisure time and an opportunity for a cheeky 18 holes of golf. On our first round Down Under, we were paired up with a couple of old Australian fellas called Gary and Phil, who didn’t have a clue who we were or what IACGMOOH was! They threw down a golfing challenge to us, England Vs Australia, which we duly accepted; after all what did we have to fear from Phil, a portly 55 year-old and Gary, a 66 year-old, retired businessman? Every time they hit a bad shot there were cries of “Argh! You bloody mongrel!” or “No! You drongo!” We didn’t know people actually spoke like that outside of Summer Bay and Ramsay street! This was going to be a walk in the park. We took them head on and gave it everything we had. We lost. Miserably. They kicked our asses and showed us a thing or two on the red hot fairways of New South Wales! It was our round when we got back to the clubhouse, they said it was revenge for England winning the Ashes, as the supped the ice cold beers we had to buy them!

That’s it for now, we’ll keep you regularly updated and don’t forget the big 90 minute opener, Sunday night, 9pm, ITV1.

See you on the telly!

A&D

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Hi, all. Can we just say thanks again to everyone who came out to see us while we were buzzing around the country (and Ireland) signing copies of Ooh! What A Lovely Pair, it was lovely to see you all and thanks for all the cards and presents, very much appreciated. We had a great time but we’re back in London now to recover with slightly sore hands!

There’s not much rest for us though, we’ve just put the finishing touches to the new set of adverts we mentioned in our last blog. We have shot a series of ad’s for Nintendo who have asked us to be ’Brand Ambassadors’ (oooooh!) for the next 12 months, which basically means playing loads of Wii and DS for hours on end! I know what you’re thinking, tough gig huh!? We’ve been fans of Nintendo for years anyway so we’ve had enormous fun shooting the ad’s which has mostly entailed meeting groups of people who play Wii or DS, finding out why they love it so much and taking them on in a bit of a challenge. Some have gone our way….some really haven’t! The ad’s will be hitting your screens and enjoynintendo.com any day now, but just for you at officialantanddec.com we have a world exclusive, extended version of one of them here:

Hope you like it, they were huge fun to shoot. I mean can you imagine, ‘What did you do at work today?’ ‘Oh tough day, I played Mario Kart multi-player for seven hours’ It’s not really work is it!?

Anyhoo, hope all’s good, speak soon,

Ant & Dec

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Hi All,

Hope you’re all well and that you’ve been enjoying the serialisation of the book this week, it has been a little nerve racking for us as it’s the first glimpses people have had but so far we have had some nice reactions to it here on the website (thank you!) and from people in the street saying that they found the extracts in The Sun very funny, honest and sometimes quite touching.  Not long now until the full book comes out on the 17th and we can’t wait for you to read the whole thing. There has been lots of book promotion to do recently; we have been doing more press interviews (just done The Daily Mail, Woman, Heat and The Daily Star today!) as well as some stuff like Esquire and Q magazine which is already on the newsstands. We’re getting ready to do all the TV appearances that are planned as well as the book signings too. They are still getting finalised now but we will put the list up on the website as soon as we have it so you can come along and see us.

We have just come back from Edinburgh where we visited the Television Festival. We had a couple of sessions to do including a no holds barred chat with the ITV News anchorman Mark Austin about our 20 years in television and our experiences. There were a few tricky questions but on the whole it was actually quite enjoyable and quite good fun. We took the opportunity to catch a couple of shows while we were there including a fantastic play called ‘Morecambe’. It was a one man show about the life of one of our heroes Eric Morecambe, and it was amazing. The actor, Bob Golding was spookily brilliant as Eric and it was expertly written by Tim Witnall. It’s apparently going on tour soon and hopefully into the West End next year so if you’re a fan of Morecambe and Wise, (like what we are!), you should definitely see it.

In stark contrast we also saw Jimmy Carr, who was very funny… and very, very rude!  We have known Jimmy for quite a while, he starred in Alien Autopsy with us and we’ve seen him live about three times. He is a lovely fella, he always invites us down to his shows and gives us free tickets which is nice, so well done Jimmy!  You’re welcome down at Saturday Night Takeaway whenever you want! We had a few beers with him after the show and then a few more drinks over the Bank Holiday weekend which ended with us at an end of summer BBQ at Philip Schofield’s house which was very nice! He had lovely bangers… and the food was good too. Boom boom!

But we’re back to work now, getting ready to unleash our ‘lovely pair’ and hopefully coming to a bookstore near you!

See you soon.

Ant & Dec

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