Ant McPartlin - His first appearance on television was on the children's workshop programme Why Don't You? but he rose to prominence playing PJ in the Children's BBC series Byker Grove. It was here that he first met Declan Donnelly, who was cast in the part of Duncan, and real life mirrored the programme as the two became best friends both on set and off.The two left the series in 1993 but not before, in the guise of "PJ & Duncan AKA" they had a number of hit records, starting with "Tonight I'm Free", a song that they had performed on the show.
Since that time the pair have appeared together in such programmes as SMTV Live, Britain's Got Talent, I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!, Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, PokerFace and Pop Idol. They have also returned to acting, starring in a 2002 Tribute to The Likely Lads and the 2006 film Alien Autopsy.
In 2007 it was discovered that two shows, Ant & Dec's Gameshow Marathon and Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway in which he co-presented with Donnelly had defrauded viewers participating in phone-ins. The latter was produced by the pair's own production company. Both did not know about the fraud, and both were said to be 'appalled' that the events had occurred.
McPartlin is the taller of the two at 1.73m (5'8") and usually stands on the left of the screen. |
