Ant and Dec have huge multi-million pound fortunes each

Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly are rarely ever seen apart – the pair have been hosting the country’s most-loved TV shows, including Britain’s Got Talent and Saturday Night Takeaway, for years. Now, the duo are in Australia, preparing to present the new series of I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!.Ant and Dec first met when they were just 13 years old, on the set of children’s drama series Byker Grove, in 1989.The two started working together almost immediately, and haven’t stopped going from one career success to the next ever since.Both men have accumulated a huge fortune each thanks to their tens of years in the limelight, but does one of them have more money than the other?Ant and Dec’s net worth is estimated to be around £62million each. Their respective fortunes are thus equal, but Ant has been through an expensive divorce in recent years.READ MORE: Queen gifted three royal brides tiaras – but Kate & Meghan missed out Ant and Dec are worth a whopping amount of money each (Image: GETTY)The 46-year-old had to pay a huge £31million to his ex-wife Lisa Armstrong, which is thought to be the biggest divorce settlement in history by a British celebrity.Additionally, Ant’s former company Teecourt dissolved in October 2020, with a huge £20million reportedly left in the bank.However, the presenter doesn’t need to worry to much about money – he still has a multi-million pound contract with ITV.Back in 2020, it was reported that the duo were in talks about a three-year deal with the TV channel, worth around £40million.DON’T MISS: ‘I was miserable’ – Fergie shares how she ‘lost close to 50 pounds’ [INSIGHT]Sarah Ferguson shares her unusual nickname for Queen Elizabeth [ANALYSIS]Princess Beatrice wraps up in colourful coat [PICTURES] Ant and Dec first met in 1989 on a children’s TV show (Image: GETTY) The duo’s careers started in pop music as artists PJ and Duncan (Image: GETTY)In an interview about how they first met, Dec confessed to finding Ant to be a “miserable git” at first.He recalled: “It wasn’t love at first sight. [But then] Ant sent me a Fred Flintstone Christmas card that first Christmas, and it said, ‘Dear Dec, have a yabba dabba do Christmas’.”Then it said, ‘PS do you fancy going to the Newcastle v Swindon match?'”So that was our first date and we forged an amazing friendship from there, and I wouldn’t have had it any other way.”Ant and Dec presented their first show, Gimme 5 on CiTV, in 1994. Since then, they have hosted The Ant and Dec Show, Friends Like These, Slap Bang, I’m A Celebrity, and more.