Ant and Dec may have already conceived their next television project, joking about creating an animated comedy featuring the pets of some of showbiz's biggest names. The presenting duo shared the off-the-wall concept while chatting on their podcast, revealing a Tom and Jerry-inspired series centred around their own dogs.
The concept
Ant McPartlin, 50, explained: "We were gonna do an animated series where our dogs live next door to each other. You see our legs a bit like the old Tom and Jerry s where you never see the top half but you hear our voices and see our dogs." The pair's four-legged friends would then embark on adventures with the pets of famous celebrities living nearby.
Ant continued: "They get up to mischief with other people's dogs, and so it's like a stellar street of famous people's dogs and it's animated. We might do that, we might do a little development on that..."
Imaginary pets for stars
The conversation quickly led to the pair inventing imaginary pets for big names in entertainment. Ant declared: "Dua Lipa's got a snake, I know that for a fact. Well, it's not a fact but in my head Dua Lipa has a snake." He went on to imagine Chris Martin "absolutely" owning a ferret, Jamie Oliver having a golden retriever, Alison Hammond sharing her home with a parrot that "talks just like her", and Cat Deeley owning a cat.
Declan Donnelly, 50, joked that music mogul Simon Cowell would have "a sinister little pussycat" with "an eye patch" playing the animals' "nemesis". Dec insisted it was just a "hypothetical TV show we're about to develop", but Ant said he is still keen on pitching the idea to telly bosses. He said: "I still think we should do a kids TV series, a kid's animated TV series," to which Dec replied: "I agree."
