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Ant and Dec: we considered splitting up over ‘indefensible’ drink-driving

Exclusive: TV duo discuss hurt and anger of their troubled 2018

Ant and Dec considered splitting up after Ant McPartlin’s conviction for drink-driving last year, the pair have told the Guardian in an exclusive and wide-ranging interview.

McPartlin was more than twice over the legal limit when he smashed into two other cars in south-west London last March. He was driving his mother, and both cars he hit contained children. McPartlin was fined £86,000, believed to be a British record for drink-driving, and banned from driving for 20 months.

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