Ant & Dec

 is the collective professional name for the entertainment act comprised by Declan Donnelly and Anthony McPartlin. Throughout the early 2000s they had a high-rated Saturday-night ITV show, which was the initial competition for the BBC Wales version of Doctor Who. An early sign of the strength of the revitalised Doctor Who was the fact that it trounced Ant & Dec in the ratings.

Years later, they were involved in the National Television Awards Sketch 2011.

, they were known as Ant & Dec. While the Doctor was trying to drop off Dermot O'Leary at the National Television Awards, Dermot stepped out of the TARDIS to be met by Ant & Dec, who asked him if the Doctor had came back for them, they needed him to release them as they were shackled together with invisible space handcuffs. At the time Dermot bumped into them, they were in the cuffs for twenty one years. Dermot told them that the Doctor was "a bit busy" and went back into the TARDIS. Ant then told Dec that he needed the toilet, to Dec's dismay. (National Television Awards Sketch 2011)