Declan Donnelly

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Declan Donnelly (2014)

Declan Joseph Oliver "Dec" Donnelly , OBE (born September 25, 1975 in Newcastle upon Tyne ) is a British presenter and, along with Anthony McPartlin, a member of the well-known Ant & Dec duo, which has received various TV awards .

Declan Donnelly played a role in the Byker Grove series as a teenager . There he met Anthony McPartlin. After they both left the series, they began making music under their role names PJ & Duncan , and made it into the charts with several songs.

Donnelly and McPartlin host the British version of I'm a Star - Get Me Out of Here! (Original: I'm a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! ) And the British casting show Britain's Got Talent , which is the template for the German show Das Supertalent . From 2002 to 2009, and again since 2013, he has hosted Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway with McPartlin .

In June 2016, Donnelly was awarded the Order of the British Empire with the rank of officer along with McPartlin .

He has been married to his manager Ali Astall since August 2015. Their daughter was born in September 2018.

Filmography (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. BBC: Byker Grove: When Ant and Dec were PJ and Duncan.Retrieved January 15, 2017
  2. Official Charts: Ant & Dec.Retrieved January 15, 2017
  3. Esther Addley, Arise, Sir Rod: rock star knighted in Queen's birthday honors in: The Guardian , June 10, 2016, accessed June 11, 2016
  4. ^ TV star Dec ties knot in Newcastle . In: BBC News . August 1, 2015 ( bbc.com [accessed April 5, 2020]).
  5. Dec 'head over heels' at daughter's birth . In: BBC News . September 1, 2018 ( bbc.com [accessed April 5, 2020]).