telly,<\/a> I always feel like I should be doing something else. There’s that anxiety that there’s a job that needs to be done somewhere and I should be doing it.<\/p>\n“I struggle with that a lot, with trying to calm that voice in the back of your head that’s going, ‘no, you should be using this time more productively’. I went through a period of having therapy about five, five or six years ago. I really got a lot out of it. I really enjoyed it.”<\/p>\n
He shared that after taking a break from therapy, as he tried to book another session, the therapist told him that he couldn’t see him. He said: “He did recommend somebody else and I’ve still got those details, I just haven’t managed to make an appointment yet.”<\/p>\n
Donnelly, marking his first-ever appearance on a podcast, said that they take their roles “incredibly seriously”. The Geordie duo, who present ‘I’m a Celebrity’, have fronted multiple primetime entertainment shows throughout the years, including Ant And Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway, Britain’s Got Talent and Ant And Dec’s Limitless Win.<\/p>\n
Donnelly shared: “When we’re looking at projects, we always look at how can we get the whole family together?”<\/p>\n
“To entertain the whole family is no mean feat, and you’ve got to try and grab each generation and entertain them. It’s entertainment, it’s fun, but we take it incredibly seriously.”<\/p>\n
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The duo also revealed they’re launching their own podcast series together, Hanging Out With Ant & Dec, which kicks off later this week.(Image: Belta Box)<\/p>\n
McPartlin jumped in: “We do the best job in the world. We have a laugh every day. We’ve hosted some turkeys over the years. It hasn’t always been a success. t’s a privilege to be in someone’s living room on a Saturday night hosting a big show.”<\/p>\n
McPartlin admitted he now has to mind his language around his 19-month-old son. “I’m getting told off a lot for swearing in the house,” he confessed.<\/p>\n
Donnelly revealed on the podcast that his seven-year-old daughter, Isla, requests to watch I’m Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! but he hesitates as it airs after the watershed. He also mentioned his three-year-old son, Jack, adding: “I’m not sure my kids should be watching my TV show.”<\/p>\n
The duo also revealed they’re launching their own podcast series together, Hanging Out With Ant & Dec, which kicks off later this week.<\/p>\n
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In a podcast appearance, Ant and Dec revealed their anxiety issues, parenthood and their long-running TV careers(Image: Belta Box)<\/p>\n
“It’s really exciting,” Donnelly explained, revealing they’d actually recorded a pilot for a podcast “about 15 years ago” in a pub, but hadn’t taken it further at the time.<\/p>\n
Last week, the pair issued an apology after promoting the new podcast with a video that faced backlash for its “suicide imagery” showing feet dangling above the ground.<\/p>\n
In a statement to BBC<\/a> News, they said: “We did not mean to cause any offence with this promo video and we are sorry if it upset anyone.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a podcast appearance, Ant and Dec revealed their anxiety issues, parenthood and their long-running TV careers Caroline…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[14416,105,1459,218,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-720647","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-ant-dec","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-im-a-celebrity-get-me-out-of-here","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115958167990648645","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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