Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly are rarely ever seen apart – the pair have been hosting the country’s most-loved TV shows, including Britain’s Got Talent and Saturday Night Takeaway, for years. Now, the duo are in Australia, preparing to present the new series of I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!.
Ant and Dec first met when they were just 13 years old, on the set of children’s drama series Byker Grove, in 1989.
The two started working together almost immediately, and haven’t stopped going from one career success to the next ever since.
Both men have accumulated a huge fortune each thanks to their tens of years in the limelight, but does one of them have more money than the other?
Ant and Dec’s net worth is estimated to be around £62million each. Their respective fortunes are thus equal, but Ant has been through an expensive divorce in recent years.
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The deal was signed in 2021 for shows such as I’m A Celebrity, Saturday Night Takeaway, Britain’s Got Talent, and Ant And Dec’s DNA Journey.
The duo’s deal could end up being worth a whopping £50million if they decide to extend it, the Sun reported at the time.
When signed, the agreement meant the pair could reportedly earn a combined £3.3million a month from ITV.
Before that, they had a previous deal with the company, that was thought to be worth around £30million.
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Ant and Dec’s businesses, Mitre Holdings and Hurley Products – the former named after the pub in Byker Grove and the latter after Ant’s dog – also hugely contribute to their earnings.
Dec is also the sole owner of production company Deecourt, which was reportedly bringing in £2,255 a day, as of July 2021.
The pair have reportedly invested their money in property, and they are both thought to have portfolios of around £10million in total, despite losing £2.5million when a luxury apartment development in the Algarve collapsed.
They are also said to be insured against each other’s death, worth around £1million.
In an interview about how they first met, Dec confessed to finding Ant to be a “miserable git” at first.
He recalled: “It wasn’t love at first sight. [But then] Ant sent me a Fred Flintstone Christmas card that first Christmas, and it said, ‘Dear Dec, have a yabba dabba do Christmas’.
“Then it said, ‘PS do you fancy going to the Newcastle v Swindon match?’
“So that was our first date and we forged an amazing friendship from there, and I wouldn’t have had it any other way.”
Ant and Dec presented their first show, Gimme 5 on CiTV, in 1994. Since then, they have hosted The Ant and Dec Show, Friends Like These, Slap Bang, I’m A Celebrity, and more.
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