When did Ant and Dec join BGT?

Ant & Dec joined Britain’s Got Talent in 2006, and a year later signed two-year golden handcuffs deal with ITV worth £40 million. They’ve been hosting the show ever since.

Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly, from Newcastle, England, are British television presenting duo. They performed as pop musicians PJ & Duncan, the names of their characters from the series, after meeting as child actors on CBBC’s drama Byker Grove.

Ant & Dec were voted the eighth most influential people in British culture in a BBC poll in 2004. They have won the award for Most Popular TV Presenter at the National Television Awards for the past twenty years, as of 2021.

The pair released the charity single “We Werk Together” in February 2022, written by Ian Masterson and featuring RuPaul’s Drag Race UK winners The Vivienne, Lawrence Chaney, and Krystal Versace, with proceeds going to the Trussell Trust.

The song was performed as the “End of the Show” Show on the first episode of the eighteenth series of Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway, which was introduced by RuPaul.