Ant and Dec to sign £30 MILLION contract to stay at ITV for the next three years
The presenting duo will sign the whopper deal before heading to Australia to host I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here
ANT and Dec are set to sign their biggest ever contract with ITV as the presenting duo have landed a three year deal worth £30million.
The TV icons have been in negotiations with the channel for months and want the deal done and dusted before they jet to Australia to host the new series of I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here.
Ant and Dec, who are both 40, told The Mirror that they are in the final stages of agreeing the terms of the whopper deal, which is worth £5million more than their last contract.
Ant said: “Let’s be honest it is close. We have had people come and discuss stuff with us but we love ITV and all the programmes we make there and they want us to stay. Before we go to Oz we want to sort it out yeah.”
Dec added: “We are not on the dotted line yet but we want to stay and they want us to stay. It is just ironing out all the bits and bobs.
“It will have to be signed before we go to Oz because then we will be at the end of the year and we are fairly close.”
While they're signing on to host some of ITV's biggest shows like Britain's Got Talent, I'm A Celeb and Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway for the next few years, the pair are still working on other projects, including a live show.
Dec added: “The whole Netflix/Amazon thing, theatre tour and other stuff are not necessarily for right now. It is still being talked about but is hopefully in the short to medium term.”
Insiders said that new boss Kevin Lygo is delighted to have tied down the award-winning pair for another three years.
It's been a good week for them as they took away two gongs at the TV Choice Awards on Monday night: Best Entertainment Programme for Saturday Night Takeaway and I'm A Celeb won Best Reality Show.
Before they head off to Oz, the pair commented on the celebs they would love to see in the jungle with Dec saying he'd love to see Nigel Farage take part in a few Bush Tucker trials.
He said: “I want Farage. That’s if they let him in the country.”
Ant added: “I would have like Ed Balls. I am gutted Strictly has pipped us to it cos he would be good in there.
“But yeah lets put a couple of those politicians in there who talked us out of Europe and then disappeared. Lets put them in.
"I am annoyed that everyone responsible for getting us here has gone.
"But that is where we are, we live in a democracy and there we are."
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