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My castaways this week are the TV duo Anton Deck to give them their full names,

Antoni McPartlin and Declan Donnelly.

The Kings of Saturday Night Primetime.

Their careers in firm friendship spans 20 odd years.

Beginning as child actors on Biker Grove and currently hosting Britain's Got Talent,

I'm a celebrity get me out of here and they're eponymously named Saturday Night Takeaway.

Their speciality is what are known in the business as shiny floor shows.

Programs that involve big budgets, big audiences and frequently big egos.

Yet their partnership, it seems, exists well beyond the four walls of a TV studio.

As 13-year-olds, they bonded over a mutual appreciation of Newcastle United and Wham,

pledging themselves to be best buddies forever.

These days, they live just a few doors down from each other

and when Ants got married, Deck was best man.

They say without doubt the best thing to come out of the last 20 years,

the greatest thing we've ever achieved, our biggest success,

has been our friendship and nothing will ever change that.

I'm wondering about the friendship then.

What do you think, Ants, is the basis of the success of your friendship?

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