Viewers had their say as they spotted something unusual about telly favourites Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly at the Bafta TV Awards on Sunday. The popular presenting duo missed out at the BAFTA TV Awards 2023 with their only nomination of the evening for Saturday Night Takeaway.
Ant and Dec lost out on the gong for Entertainment Programme to The Masked Singer. Strictly Come Dancing and and Later... with Jools Holland: Jools' 30th Birthday Bash were also nominated.
The news came as a shock to The Masked Singer presenter Joel Dommett who joked about BBC dance contest Strictly 'always winning everything' as he accepted the award. But as the camera panned to Ant and Dec in the audience on BBC One, eagle-eyed fans noticed something amiss.
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They clocked that the long-standing duo had dropped their tradition of Ant being on the left and Dec on the right and had become 'Dec and Ant.' @MummyBarrow tweeted: "Wait a minute ….. Ant and Dec are sitting the wrong way round aren’t they?!!! #BAFTA."
@vicindeed protested: "Ant & Dec are the wrong way round!" @GraceLouise95_said: "Ant & Dec are sat the wrong way round. It’s stressing me out." And @brooksie678 also spotted: "Ant & Dec sitting as Dec & Ant at the #BAFTAAwards is messing with my mind!"
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AntAndDecUK wrote: "Sadly Ant & Dec didn’t win a BAFTA tonight. Commiserations to Ant & Dec and the team At Saturday Night Takeaway. The show is incredible no matter what the outcome was."
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