TELLY duo Ant and Dec are planning to reboot their old SMTV Live sketch Chums for a new TV show.
The Geordie presenters, both 44, have written a new script and are hoping to rope in celebrity pals for cameos.
They have also convinced their old colleague Cat Deeley, 43, to take part in the old skit, which is a parody of US hit sitcom Friends.
It used to play a central part in kids morning show SMTV Live, which ran for five years from 1998.
HOAR understands that the plans would be part of a wider show, rather than a standalone series of just Chums, and that idea is still in the early stages.
A telly source said: “Chums was one of SMTV Live’s most popular sketches so they always wanted to revisit it at some point in the future.
“They’ve worked on a script they think justifies bringing it back as part of a TV project they’re in talks for.
“And they’ve met with Cat in the last couple of weeks and she’s on board too.
“They’ve started to ask celebrity pals, of which all three have many, to see who fancies taking part in it.
“If it happens it will be a real blast from the past and a nostalgia trip for millions of now grown-up kids.”
Chums – which saw a fictional romance between Cat and Dec – was so popular that when the presenters left the ITV show in 2001 they were shown as standalone repeats on CITV.
It featured a series of high-profile celebrity cameos, in which famous faces often played themselves in fictitious storylines.
In 2017, at the BAFTA TV Awards, the Geordie best pals revealed that ITV had agreed to do a SMTV Live reunion the following year to mark 20 years since it first aired but the plans were later shelved.
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