Book info

• Title Ooh! What a Lovely Pair
• Author Anthony McPartlin
• Year 2009
• Genre Memoir

Ant and Dec have spent 30 years working together on TV. They've won over 100 awards, become national treasures and through it all they've remained best friends. From jungles to pubs, youth clubs to blind school, a wealth of behind-the-scenes anecdotes are revealed in this full, personal and intimate account of their friendship. Ant and Dec met when they were just thirteen on the set of Byker Grove in Newcastle. They didn't warm to each other immediately, but soon enough they became best mates and have been inseparable both on and off screen ever since. Bad rap, stunts going wrong, schoolboy pranks and off-screen antics are just some of the experiences they write about in this wonderfully entertaining memoir, full of vivid observations, colourful reminiscence and charming digressions. Ooh! What a Lovely Pair will give millions of fans an insight to the genuine intimacy and refreshing sense of humour that the two TV icons share.

Thoughts

I read this earlier in the year and for some reason didn’t write a review at the time. It’s a book chronicling the early years of both Ant & Dec’s career - this pair really can’t do anything apart! They take it in turns to discuss their early years, meeting on Byker Grove and transitioning to a pop career that they weren’t always comfortable with. Within each chapter, they pop in and out almost as though it’s a conversation, and you can really hear it as though they are talking to each other. Good, interesting approach, a little distracting in places, but I learnt quite a lot about their early years.

Rating: 3 / 5