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I love Ant and Dec!

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LucilleBluth · 01/04/2018 00:05

I don't care....I love them....and I really hope Ant comes back. There I said it.

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JaneyEJones · 01/04/2018 10:04

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SilverySurfer · 01/04/2018 10:40

I wonder how much of an 'unsympathetic twat' you would have been had he injured or killed one of your family or friends?

2018Already · 01/04/2018 10:42

YANBU. A lot of posters on this thread should be damn grateful that they’ve never reached the low point that I suspect Ant has recently.

Andrewofgg · 01/04/2018 10:47

They are a joke which had stopped being funny long before the accident. Goodbye, gentlemen.

If it’s true that Ant’s wife want half he has and half his future earnings he should agree; buy an index linked annuity with his half; and never do a hand’s turn again.

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Sparklingbrook · 01/04/2018 10:49

A lot of posters seemed to be determined to focus on the 'what ifs' and the 'could haves'.

The situation is what it is. On Wednesday Ant will find out his fate. I assume from threads on here whatever that is it won't be harsh enough because of all the possibilities of things that could have happened and yet didn't...

Tors33 · 01/04/2018 10:51

I love them too I hope ant gets better soon I've been watching them both since the biker Grove days

HateSummer · 01/04/2018 10:52

Why does anyone give a shit about TV presenters these days?! Ant and Dec have recently become caricatures of themselves. A drink driving “celebrity” tv presenter and his angelic partner is so cliched. I can’t be arsed about these pointless people. I don’t know who has the time or will to watch these Saturday night “entertainment” programmes...

TheFairyCaravan · 01/04/2018 10:56

This has to be a piss take by the OP surely?

She’s going to be back about 12.01pm shouting “April Fool”

MsBeauvoir · 01/04/2018 10:57

To the apologists for Ant on here. If he had drunk so much that his judgement was impaired to the extent that he'd raped a woman, would that have been ok too because of his addiction issues and the fact that he only raped her and didn't kill her?
Because you seem to be saying that he couldn't help driving under the influence because of his addiction issues, but it's ok really because no-one got hurt.
If his addiction is so bad that he cannot make good decisions about when he is safe to drive then he really should not be driving at all.

Sparklingbrook · 01/04/2018 10:58

There go the 'ifs' again...

EveningHare · 01/04/2018 11:03

so would you still be happy to watch this footballer? make you feel warm and fuzzy because hes entertaining? Ant was lucky he didnt do more damage

apologies for the DM link
www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2696973/Plymouth-Argyle-attack-appointing-killer-drink-driver-goalkeeper-clubs-new-captain.html

Luke McCormick jailed in 2008 after killing Aaron Peak and brother Ben

Sparklingbrook · 01/04/2018 11:07

Not really sure that's a comparison TBH.

Ant will be sentenced on the damage he did not on the damage he could have done or what other people have done presumably.

MsBeauvoir · 01/04/2018 11:07

But Sparkling, DD is so bad because a person who chooses to drive while intoxicated simply doesn't know how their drive will end up. If they're lucky they and other roads users will get home unscathed, but there is also a real possibility that people will end up dead. Which is why the fact in itself that someone has DD is so bad in itself, they don't then get to have a choice whether to kill someone or not, they've made that decision at the moment they choose to drive.
It might have been the grace of God that meant there were no serious injuries caused by Ant; but the fact he drove in the first place when over the limit was entirely down to his own decision.

Sparklingbrook · 01/04/2018 11:09

I know all that MsBeauvoir.

OyO · 01/04/2018 11:09

What if Ant was a magical unicorn who accidentally trampled a troop of morris dancers to death?? Would you still be all ‘aahhhh I love unicorns’???? WOULD YOU??

MsBeauvoir · 01/04/2018 11:10

So why downplay his crime? He got lucky his poor decision didn't result in death or serious injury.

Sparklingbrook · 01/04/2018 11:11

I am not downplaying anything. What happened happened. He will find out his sentence on Wednesday I think.

MsBeauvoir · 01/04/2018 11:13

Yes, he CHOSE to drive while over the limit, I have no sympathy for that decision.

EveningHare · 01/04/2018 11:14

difference is though @OyO, is that Ant was drink driving

OyO · 01/04/2018 11:15

There are few other differences too... that’s the point.

Slartybartfast · 01/04/2018 11:16

wonders about the percentage of celebrities with addictions. Quite high

NewYearNewMe18 · 01/04/2018 11:17

Because I can ..... any here watch corrie? Don't see anyone braying for Barabara Knox her to be put in the stocks and peleted with rotten tomatoes

Is it because she a woman ? or a pensioner?

I'm genuinely curious as to why the knives are so out for Ant and Dec

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-30950156

Coronation Street actress Barbara Knox has been banned from driving for a year after admitting a drink-drive charge.
Knox, 81, who plays Rita Tanner in the ITV soap, was charged after being held at a police station in Knutsford, Cheshire, in March last year.
She had gone to the station near her home after her daughter was arrested on suspicion of the same offence.
Knox denied the charge last April but changed her plea as she was due to be tried at Crewe Magistrates' Court.
In addition to the driving ban, the defendant, who was appointed an MBE in 2010, was fined £3000 and ordered to pay costs of £1750.
'Author of misfortune'
At a previous hearing, the court heard that because she had been drinking she was told by police not to drive home when she arrived at the station on 10 March to see her daughter.
The court heard Knox was offered a lift home by officers but she declined, as well as ignoring officers' advice about not driving home.
Following her subsequent arrest, a blood test showed she had 85mg of alcohol in 100ml of blood. The legal limit is 80mg.
Judge Brigid Knight told Knox her original not guilty plea had wasted court time and money.
Knox's lawyer Nick Freeman accepted the actress was "the author of her own misfortune".
He said his client "considers drink-driving to be serious" and had not sought to justify her actions.
Family gathering
Knox's daughter Maxine Ashcroft, was banned from driving for two years after she was found to be nearly three times the legal limit.
Tests showed Ashcroft, of Kencot, Lechlade, Gloucestershire, had 97 mg of alcohol per 100 ml of breath - 35 mg is the legal limit.
She had been stopped by police while driving a relative home from a family gathering in Alderley Edge, Cheshire.
Her mother went to the police station to visit her before she was arrested herself.
Coronation Street said it would not be commenting on the case as it was a "private and personal matter".

userxx · 01/04/2018 11:20

@EveningHare I remember that when it happened, so sad. Cant believe he's playing football again.

MsGameandWatching · 01/04/2018 11:23

I'm off FB at the minute and so glad to be to escape the onslaught of Ant and Dec support. I've not avoided it entirely though having witnessed conversation and seen in various media outlets comments on how BRAVE Dec was to present alone and how WELL he did Hmm. The man did the job he's been doing for decades, he didn't perform open heart surgery in a war zone with scud missiles flying overhead. Ludicrous!