I'm A Celebrity. In 2018, for the first time ever, the popular ITV series wasn't presented by the duo after Ant took a break after his drink-driving conviction and time in rehab.
Instead, This Morning's Holly Willoughby flew out to Australia leaving the daytime show to help out Dec. Now the 44-year-old has revealed that there were plans to bring in another male host, but he was adamant this couldn't happen.
Other ITV stars including Stephen Mulhern and Phillip Schofield had been linked to the job, the Mirror reports, but Dec was adamant he wanted a female co-host to present beside him.
In Ant and Dec's new book Once Upon A Tyne, Dec wrote: "The year that Holly stepped in, it was very strange for me to host a TV show with anyone but Ant."Ant.
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