UK Presenters Ant And Dec Choke Up With Emotional Farewell To Primetime Show After 20 Years
deadline.comThe UK’s most successful presenting duo, Ant and Dec, signed off their Saturday evening primetime live show after 20 years, going out in style and bidding emotional farewell.
Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly, who have been working as a pair since teaming up on childrens TV drama Byker Grove in in the early 1990s, had previously announced this series of Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway, the 20th, would be the last.
Saturday evening’s show saw a long list of guests including Simon Cowell and pop stars Girls Aloud join Ant and Dec for a final, live singalong of Kool and the Gang’s ‘Celebration’ that took in both interior and exterior settings at London’s Television Centre.
A huge amount of technical preparation and choreography had clearly gone into the production, which finished with Ant and Dec back on stage, thanking everyone before finally putting their arms round each other and walking off.
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