Ant and Dec to host brand new show with pal Stephen Mulhern – and it’s world’s away from Saturday Night Takeaway
ANT McPartlin and Declan Donnelly will star in their first ever travel programme that jets off to Asia for an epic tour.
The duo will be joined by their TV best pal Stephen Mulhern to help him break out of his ways with the help of viral social media hacks.
The Accidental Tourist, commissioned by ITV1 and ITVX, sees the duo help Stephen embark on an epic journey across Asia’s most exotic locations.
It’s all to encourage the Deal or No Deal host, a man who likes to stick to what he knows, to be pushed out of his comfort zone.
The one-off special will test whether the former Britain’s Got More Talent host has what it takes to unleash his inner adventurer.
And it means Stephen will have to encounter epic locations, exotic cultures and cuisines and meet bucket loads of new people.
It’s all planned out by Ant and Dec, who take inspiration from viral videos online and chose activities Stephen would never have chosen alone.
While the pair won’t head to Asia, they will orchestrate everything Stephen eats, sees and does from home.
The series is expected to air in 2025.
It comes after it was revealed that Stephen would be hosting a new, challenging spin-off show for I’m A Celeb.
In a surprising link-up, ITV combined their jungle reality show with game show Deal Or No Deal.
It means a string of Ant and Dec’s favourite contestants from I’m A Celeb will take on Stephen’s famous red boxes and try to win money for charity.
The special episode will be part of the new series of the gameshow – the second with Stephen as host after he took over from Noel Edmonds in 2023.
There will also be three more celebrity editions, ITV announced earlier this week.
Last year, footballer Michael Owen and Coronation Street actor Simon Gregson both took part in primetime celebrity specials of the show.
Further details on the I’m A Celeb spin-off are expected in due course.