Ant and Dec reveal new podcast came to be after duo found they were ‘not hanging out as much’
Ant and Dec's new podcast Hanging Out with Ant and Dec was created after pair realised they were "not hanging out as much" as they used to since they both became fathers.
Ant and Dec created a podcast together because they found they were “not hanging out as much” as they used to.
The TV duo front their new podcast Hanging Out with Ant and Dec, and although the pair have appeared on the box together for years on the likes of Britain’s Got Talent and I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here! Declan Donnelly, 50, has explained the podcast came to be after they realised they were not spending much time with each other since they both became fathers.
In the first episode of Hanging Out with Ant and Dec, Dec said: “We don’t get the chance to hang out as much and talk rubbish anymore, so we decided to come up with the idea of doing a podcast to sit together and talk some rubbish and let you join in too.”
Dec became a father in September 2018 when he and wife Ali Astall welcomed daughter Isla, seven, before also having son Jack, three, four years later.
Meanwhile, Ant McPartlin, 50, and his wife Anne-Marie Corbett became parents to son Wilder, one, in May 2024.
Dec explained that both he and Ant are putting in “a lot of time and effort” into raising their respective children, and that - paired with Ant’s recent house move - has meant the pair are “further away from each other than [they’ve] ever been”.
He said: “We’re now dads to very small children … the little ones especially take up a lot of time and effort and energy.
“I love them dearly, but we don’t hang out as much as we used to. Ant’s moved house now, geographically we’re further away from each other than we’ve ever been.”
Ant and Dec recently reflected on their family lives during an appearance on Fearne Cotton’s Happy Place podcast.
Ant said: “I should go to bed earlier, but probably about midnight. It's late with a baby. It's a bit too late to be honest with you but I'll get stuck in a box set – and once I start I can't stop.”
Meanwhile, Dec goes to bed much earlier.
He said: “It's about nine o'clock. We'll sit on the sofa, me and Ali; we put the kids, we'll have something to eat. We'll sit on the sofa, watch telly and then we'll go, ‘We could be in bed watching this.’”
