Ant and Dec: I’d choose fatherhood over TV! Practicing gratitude and honouring growth
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.7 • 15.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Struggling to know if you’ve achieved enough? If you’re happy enough? Worry everything you’ve built could fall apart? Even national treasures Ant and Dec don’t feel like they’ve ‘made it’.
In this chat with Fearne – their first ever podcast appearance – Ant and Dec explain that nearly four decades into their careers they’re still laughing together just as much as they did at the beginning, but now they’ve got far more gratitude for each day they get to be on TV.
Both Ant and Dec have children, and explore how fatherhood has changed them... and challenged them at times too. They also share why it’s so vital to have an open mind and let your worldview expand as you’re introduced to new ideas and opinions.
Plus, can Fearne convince Ant and Dec to swear on air, and how do they really feel about the PJ and Duncan days...?
You can listen to Hanging Out With Ant and Dec from January 22nd.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and a massive welcome to Happy Place with me Fern Cotton. This is the show that helps us |
| 0:08.0 | see all sides of the story. Today, you lovely lot, this is their first ever podcast appearance. |
| 0:17.8 | I'm so excited. I'm chatting to Anton Deck. All opinions should be provisional. |
| 0:24.2 | That you should have an opinion on something, but always understand that you will travel more, |
| 0:29.4 | you'll meet more people, you will get all there so your opinion can change. Say if you have it |
| 0:33.9 | in your 20s, you don't have to stick with that for the rest of your life. Yeah. If you come up against somebody with a different point of view to you, try and see it from their perspective. I think it's so useful to go, but why do they think like this? Rather than going, not you're wrong and I'm right. Oh, I'm feeling all the Januaries at the moment. I don't think I've ever felt more January in my life. |
| 0:55.8 | I mean, I guess it doesn't help if you're listening to this in the UK, where I am. |
| 0:59.9 | The weather is shite. |
| 1:02.5 | I mean, it always is. |
| 1:03.5 | That's very much part and parcel of January. |
| 1:06.0 | But it just feels particularly gloomy. |
| 1:08.1 | And all the Christmas decks are down. And I know I should be over it by now |
| 1:13.0 | but I'm just I'm still emerging sloth-like from the Christmas period I somehow managed to |
| 1:20.5 | jet lag myself over Christmas not because I went on a holiday anywhere but because I was going to bed |
| 1:26.3 | later and like lying in till about |
| 1:28.5 | eight, which for me is, I haven't done that in years. So now I'm back to setting my alarm for |
| 1:34.2 | half five, six. I am like in a trance. I feel utterly pooped and by 4pm I'm quite frankly ready to get into bed which I know is not |
| 1:48.2 | possible because I've got to sort of like feed my children and bath them and get them in bed |
| 1:54.1 | anyway together we shall make it through January we can do this do you know what really helped |
| 1:59.9 | especially for this episode of the podcast not that I need help talking to these two because shall make it through January. We can do this. Do you know what really helped? Especially for |
| 2:01.6 | this episode of the podcast. Not that I need help talking to these two because they're absolute |
| 2:05.3 | legends, but just to perk myself up in the morning, I wore my brand new sparkly trainers. I mean, |
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