Quotes from Ant McPartlin

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.

We did the original 'Pop Idol,' so I don't think we could go back to do a singing show.

We've done 'Britain's Got Talent' and we work well with Simon Cowell and have done for years.

If you are enjoying yourself its infectious.

We love the 'Britain's Got Talent' process, we love interacting and responding with the public, it's just good fun.

Just saying I'd like to do a sitcom is poison words, isn't it?

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.

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.

Me and Dec are long in the tooth now - we've seen every Bush Tucker trial there is.

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.

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.

I think Jonathan Ross is brilliant.

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.

I'm just one of those people who happens to be all or nothing. A lot of people can be middle. I'm not.

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.

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.

I let a lot of people down, and for that I am truly sorry.

Sometimes we spend 20 minutes just watching Carol Vorderman brush her hair in the mornings.

I was a massive arachnophobe - I just hated spiders.

I loved my Nintendo 64 growing up.

There's no excuse for drink-driving.

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?'

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.

In our day-to-day lives we're not very introspective - especially not British northern blokes.