Ant and Dec thought I’m A Celeb title was ‘awful’ when they first heard it

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I’M A Celebrity . . . Get Me Out of Here! hosts Ant and Dec thought the show’s title was “awful” when they first heard it.

Producers at ITV asked them to front the show in 2002 and they loved the idea — but said the name was terrible and should be changed.

Ant and Dec revealed they thought I’m A Celebrity . . . Get Me Out of Here! was an ‘awful’ show title when they first heard it

Ant, 44, said: “The producers came in, they explained, ‘So, we’re going to get these celebrities, we’re going to put them in a jungle, we’re going to make them face their fears and do trials and stuff’.

“And we were like, ‘Well, this all sounds good, a bit like Big Brother and it’s a bit like other things, and they’re putting it all together’.

“And what’s it called?’ and they said, ‘I’m a Celebrity . . . Get Me Out of Here!’.”

Dec, also 44, said: “We both looked at each other and we were like, ‘Well that’s awful, isn’t it?’.”

ITV producers asked the duo to front the show in 2002

Ant added: “What a terrible title. We were like, ‘Yeah we’ll do it, but the title will change, obviously’.

“Two years later, it hasn’t changed and it’s a huge show.”

The pair were on Radio 2’s My Life in A Mixtape where they picked songs significant to their 30-year career.

In the show, available on BBC Sounds, they picked Coldplay’s In My Place.

Ant and Dec said they both loved the idea of the hit show but didn’t like the name

Dec said: “The first series (of I’m a Celeb) wasn’t an altogether pleasurable experience.

“We were halfway through the series. We didn’t really know what we were doing.

“Coldplay had just released their second album, A Rush of Blood to the Head, and this was one of the tracks on it. And in the middle of it there was a line that really summed up how we were feeling — ‘I was scared, I was scared, tired and underprepared’.”

After producers shared the show’s name Dec said: ‘‘Well that’s awful, isn’t it?’

Ant and Dec on set for the first series which aired in 2002

Contestants from the first series of the hit ITV show, left to right, Uri Geller, Tara Palmer Tomkinson, Rhona Cameron, Nigel Benn, Nell McAndrew, Darren Day and Christine Hamilton

To celebrate their 30-year career in showbiz Ant and Dec picked out songs relevant to their lives for Radio 2’s My Life in A Mixtape

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