Ant and Dec taking break from Saturday Night Takeaway 'to catch their breath'

Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly volition instrumentality a interruption from Saturday Night Takeaway adjacent year, ITV has said.

Reaching the "milestone" of 20 bid seemed similar the "perfect clip to intermission for a small portion and drawback our breath," the award-winning presenting duo said.

The bid antecedently took a intermission successful 2009 - returning 4 years later.

ITV's Kevin Lygo said the broadcaster understood wherefore the duo person "a tendency to instrumentality a pause".

"When you deliberation of Saturday nighttime tv you deliberation of Saturday Night Takeaway," ITV's manager of tv said.

The astir caller bid of that amusement launched successful February, with ITV1's biggest overnight assemblage of the year, attracting 6.4 cardinal viewers.

Since its motorboat successful 2002 it has received aggregate Bafta and National Television Awards (NTA), including presenting accolades for Ant and Dec.

The brace volition proceed their exclusive moving narration with ITV, arsenic hosts of fashionable shows including I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!, Britain's Got Talent and Limitless Win.

"We emotion making Saturday Night Takeaway, but reaching the milestone of 20 bid seemed similar the cleanable clip to intermission for a small portion and drawback our breath," Ant said.

Dec added: "We inactive person a momentous 20th bid to look guardant to archetypal truthful we volition bash our champion to spell retired (for now) with a bang successful 2024."