Fish and chips. Bangers and mash. Weather and queuing. Ant and Dec. The duo are a staple of British culture, appearing on our television screens every night and in our tabloids the next morning.
The two presenters – real names Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly – are so inseparable in our imagination that a survey once revealed that 70 per cent of the British public don’t know who is who. It’s apparently why they always stand in the same positions to match the order of their names: Ant on the left and Dec on the right.
