Ant and Dec were reportedly furious with their show boss Simon Cowell at the weekend, when he kept them and the whole Britain’s Got Talent team waiting for two hours….while he had a bath!
Insiders say the Geordie duo asked producers if they could start filming and begin work without the music mogul, after he failed to show up to the Cradiff venue where tryouts were being held.
I’m A Celebrity has once again won the ‘Best Reality TV Show’ award at this year’s National Television Awards.
During the ceremony on London’s O2 Arena, it was announced that the hit ITV series was up against The Only Way Is Essex, Come Dine With Me and The Apprentice in it’s category and it was hardly a shock when Ant and Dec triumphed again, having earlier won the gong for ‘Best Entertainment Presenter.’
Ant and Dec have once again hit success on the National Television Awards.
Tonight the Geordie duo – best known as the hosts of Britain’s Got Talent, Saturday Night Takeaway and Britain’s Got Talent – beat Keith Lemon, Dermot O’Leary and Michael McIntyre to win in the category of ‘Best Entertainment Presenter’.
Ant and Dec have admitted that they aren’t sure if Red Or Black will return to our TV screens for a second series.
The Britain’s Got Talent hosts fronted the new ITV gameshow last week, and saw four millionaires emerge over the seven shows. However some sources have claimed that the channel will not commission a second series, as the ratings didn’t live up to it’s expectations.
The Geordie stars don’t seem too clued in on it’s future though and say channel bosses have yet to inform them of their intentions regarding series two.
Ant and Dec have started laying out their wish list for this year’s series of I’m A Celebrity.
In just two months time the TV duo will be jetting off to the Australian jungle to start preparing for the latest run of the ITV reality series and speaking to The Daily Star last night confessed that they’d love their boss Simon Cowell to join as a contestant, but don’t think he could stand the pace.
Ant and Dec are back!
TV’s most powerful duo return to our screens as they front new ITV gameshow Red Or Black tomorrow night and in an interview with Buzz magazine about the series, they had a fair few kind words to say about their boss, Simon Cowell.
Dec was the first to compliment the music mogul, saying:
Rory McIlroy celebrated his recent win at the U.S. Open Championship, by taking part in filming for Ant and Dec’s new TV show.
The 22 year old professional golfer from County Down, Northern Ireland took part in a challenge for ITV series Red Or Black, which saw him competing against world No2 Lee Westwood, 38.
Before the challenege started hopeful contestants, who had put their names forward for the show via the official website, were asked to bet on which golfer would be able to hit a gong which was placed 100 yards away in the middle of a lake at Eastnor Castle in Herefordshire.
Dec told The Sun:
Ant and Dec have admitted that they were ‘shocked’ by tonight’s Britain’s Got Talent result.
The telly duo front the ITV show and were surprised too announce that Scottish singer Jai McDowall had taken the winners title and the £100,000 prize money, over 12 year old performer Ronan Parke – who has been the bookies favourite for weeks.
Speaking on ITV2′s Britain’s Got More Talent, Dec said:
He was the dark horse of the competition. All the attention this week surrounding Ronan kind of made everyone take their eye off it a little bit. He had a great semi final and a great final performance and he deserved it….but it was a shock.
Ant added:
This is what I can’t work out. I think he is a lovely lovely fella, he’s a really nice guy, his semi final performance was brilliant and I didn’t really know the song he did tonight but he performed it really well. I think the public really go for that, they like nice people.
Dec also thinks that Jai’s personality as well as his singing had a lot to do with the result and continued:
He is very nice, he’s so likeable. You can see that he’s nervous,. He doesn’t really have massive self belief.
Ant concluded:
It just goes to show that it’s not a forgeone conclusion, no matter what anybody says.
Simon Cowell has refused to speak about Cheryl Cole throughout this week’s Britain’s Got Talent live shows, however tonight, he seemed to make an sly joke about the recent furore.
The music mogul has found himself being painted as public enemy number one after he sacked the former Girls Aloud star from the X Factor USA panel last week.
It had been reported that Cowell banned all the show’s staff from mentioning her name on set, however tonight he alluded to the scandal while critiquing impressionist Les Gibson.
Ant and Dec had expected Simon Cowell to be furious with them, after they made a joke about him firing Cheryl Cole on Monday’s live Britain’s Got Talent semi final.
The TV duo teased Cowell about whether or not he could understand their Geordie accents, after it was rumoured that he sacked Cole from the US X Factor. because of her regional dialect.
They thought he would be furious, but insiders say that the music mogul actually found the whole incident quite funny.
A BGT source told The Sun:
“Everyone laughed – it was proper gallows humour. When the lads bumped into Simon they thought he would tick them off.
“But he said he loved it. He’s so fed up of her ignoring him he’s happy to let her have the p*** taken out of her on TV.”
Cheryl has reportedly claimed that she refused to take a job on the UK X Factor, because she doesn’t want to be seen as Simon’s new Sinitta. Louis Walsh says she is now planning a reunion tour with her old bandmates, Girls Aloud.
