Those cheeky geordie lovleys, bless 'em. They bring much joy with their crazy songs and pretty boy looks.
From their Bykerdays with Geoff man they've been tackling "the issues", Duncan getting addicted to fruit machines and then mixed up with that Psychandrics business and PJ's pirate radio interfering with the ambulance signals and of course famously the dangers of paintballing.
As we all know the Grove matrix lead to pop megastardom
for the boys and 3 top owlbums as PJ and Duncan and later as Ant and Dec
:
Phsyche - top choones like lets get ready to rhumble, If I give you my number, Our radio rocks and the shockingly rude self penned I want you along with other filth.
Topkatz - U
Krazy Katz, Stuck on you and a top cover of Stepping stone.
and finally "The cult of Ant and Dec" - they do that almost cover and little Dec tries to play a geetar.
Their pop megastardom and tours round the country where preteens and me screamed our earts out were mixed with their fantastic TV show a surreal thing which featured celebrity guests such as Cheryl Baker, Bernie Clifton and Sue Pollard.
hTheir top turns in the
Ant and Dec
Show won them awards and shocked fans as they saucily announced that Katie
Hill, annoying Blue Peter presenter, was "up for it" strangely this
caused less of a fuss than "beat the barber". An inspired quiz,
answer three questions and a celebrity baldie is revealed strip by strip, kid
guesses correctly and walks away with a top prize, they get it wrong and Stan
the barber walks away with their hair. Stan was an odd tall thin man who was
greeted each week with a chant of "hello Stan
where's your van?", my favourite response was "Parked in a
multistorey". Beat the barber was top but after a few weeks they cut away
before the hair was cut off and it was all a bit of a scandal. Far more
disturbing however, was the appearance of Russell Grant from which I've never
quite recovered. On another personal note, an episode of the second series of
the "Ant and Dec show" along with a Pizza from
lucky's once cured
me of a very bad cold.
The series left CBBC and they moved to 6pm on channel 4, here sadly things went downhill and the pure smut just wasn't the same now it wasn't snuck on before neighbours.
However, it was just a matter of
time before Saturday morning frolics remembered from their days on ITV's
Saturday show while on Byker would get them SMTV:live. Along the way they
somehow found time to tread the boards in a groundbreaking performance of Snow
white with Ricky D from SUN FM!
Their time on SMTV and
CDUK got them plenty much respect and while live n kickin' fell by the wayside
they kept going on strong till they left for the bright lights of prime
time.
The boys won the hearts of many being the nice ones on Pop Idol, well them and that Nicky bird, their world cup single, "we're on the ball" has been played at least once on national radio and has been praised by someone, probably. Mind you, it did rocket into the top three which is better than the top notch lets get ready to rhumble did I spose.
The boys have
been pretty busy really, and although Donna Air has found some success with
"the club", what a talent,
the nations favourite Geordies have done byker proud with their lifetime
achievement award in the bag at 27. They fronted quiz show "Friends like
these" where boys played again girls for the chance of a holiday. They
graciously handed over to "it'll be all right right right on the Ian
Wright" in November 2000. The boys also landed "Ant and Dec's Secret
Camera Show" but got into bother for showing a scantily clad lady looking
like she was serving milk from a boob at 5 o'clock.
They moseyed over to ITV to make Slap Bang, a blend of chat and showbiz guests and stuff, they got another slapped wrist for pretending to shoot Ken Barlow off Coronation Street in that one. They did regularly feature Angie Watts off Eastenders though so surely it can't have been all bad. Can it?
BUT luckily that wasn't the end of the tale and the boys
returned with Saturday
night takeaway. The first series was a bit ropey but luckily they tried
again and with a tiny bit less cheese and a bit more oddness they've got a show
that makes me smile. Anything that features lovely Ant singing with madness
looking like the happiest boy in the world has to be good news. Even the cute
kids little ant and dec are pretty good. All in all a thumbs up.
And now for the news
6th July 2003: Those lovable Geordies are now moving and a shaking officially. The boys have come in at number 35 in the Guardian's top 100 making them "TV's most powerful stars". "A panel of experienced media watchers gleaned from the worlds of politics, journalism, advertising and the Internet judged entrants using three criteria: cultural influence, economic clout and political power." Read all about why the guardian thinks they're officially great here
24th April 2003 Ant and Dec show contestant 'suing over lack of help'. Unhappy Saturday takeaway contestant considering claiming damages against Granada after the boys helped the next contestant more than him.
27th February 2003 Ant and Dec buy their favourite pub. Hmm. The boys have bought a half share in Johnny Ringos by Newcastle's delightful Bigg Market. Each to their own. Apparently they paid £175,000 and now its called "The lodge"
Applications are now closed for pop idol 2 (auditions were May to July) but it is going ahead once again with the boys up for bringing a little bit extra to the karaore fun. Website on ITV's not up yet really but you can get emails from them if you like that sort of thing here.
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