Celebrity

Going back to school, having done 'Byker Grove' and being on the telly when you're 13, all the kids are very jealous and it can make it a quite hostile environment.

In my job, having what they call 'popcorn thinking' is good because it means you can jump from one thing to another. Professionally it's brilliant. Personally I'm all over the place.

My dad and I didn't speak for a long time, but we're talking again now, which is great.

I was a massive arachnophobe - I just hated spiders.

You're somebody and nobody in a split-second. This is a business.

I think I'm quite up and down, I'm quite hyper. Either hyper up or down.

Eighteen-year-old guys don't hang around youth centers, or if they do, they're kind of weird.

If either of us really desperately wanted to do anything on our own it wouldn't be a problem. But we think of projects that involve the two of us. We actually like working together. It's what we do.

To be fair, life is too short. There is no point holding grudges or anything like that.

Dec's punctuality leaves a lot to be desired.

Obviously, the BBC is funded by licence-payers. If you are paying for a TV licence, when you see what people are paid, then you know you're funding that.

My dad left the family when I was about 10 and I've seen him sporadically over the years.

I loved my Nintendo 64 growing up.

I've took stock of things and said, 'Right I've got to think of me.'

If you are enjoying yourself its infectious.

With 'SMTV' it was a very brave decision by ITV to commission it for a year. It was so awful to start with and the ratings were so low to start with we might never have made it past the first six months.

We have a show very early on called 'Slap Bang' on a Saturday night and it didn't work. It started off peak time and started getting earlier and earlier in the schedule. I think that that taught us you have to adapt.

We learnt a lot from doing Panto, actually back when we were still doing 'SMTV: Live.' We learnt how far we could push things and the show was all the better for that. I think that taught us you really have to know your audience because you could see how they would react to things.

We did the original 'Pop Idol,' so I don't think we could go back to do a singing show.

I think you can show off too much, and that would have been such a no-no from me growing up.