A mortified Declan Donnelly has revealed he accidentally hit Ant McPartlin’s step-daughter’s boyfriend on the head with a golf ball.
The presenter, 50, admitted he felt terrible as he retold the story on the latest episode of their Hanging Out With Ant & Dec podcast.
Ant, also 50, is married to wife Anne-Marie Corbett and refers to her children; Daisy, 18, and Poppy, 16, as his daughters.
Dec said: ‘I was 75 to 80 yards from the green. I thought this is a sand iron shot. I thought I’ll just open the club face a little bit and just get under it and just land it gently on the green.
‘I open the club face a little bit which would force it right. It happened to be where two of my playing partners were stood.
‘As I hit the ball, it went up in the air and headed in their general direction. I shouted “fore right”, which means you should duck.
A mortified Declan Donnelly has revealed he accidentally hit Ant McPartlin’s step-daughter’s boyfriend on the head with a golf ball
‘One of them delayed his duck a little bit. He finally ducked and honest to God, you heard as it hit him on the back of the head.’
An unimpressed Ant, who was not at the golf course, said: ‘Dec has hit someone on the golf course. Not just anyone. My daughter’s boyfriend.
‘I heard about this when he got in last night with rubbing the back of his head in a lot of pain. Bless him. In a lot of pain. He said, “It’s all right. You hit the soft bit”.’
Dec admitted: ‘It didn’t make the noise of the soft bit. It didn’t. I felt and still feel so bad. I’ve never done that before.
Ant joked he wasn’t sure if his daughter’s boyfriend was awake as he said: ‘Should I go and check just to make sure, just “Are you alive? Hello. Are you alive? Are you alive?”
Dec also said any hopes of doing well were scuppered as he was in a team with Ant’s daughter’s boyfriend.
‘Of course we lost. One of us went to pot after that,’ he said.
Ant said: ‘Well, I’m pleased I didn’t play because if I played, I would have been your partner and that would have been me. It’s true though.’
An unimpressed Ant, who was not at the golf course, said: ‘Dec has hit someone on the golf course. Not just anyone. My daughter’s boyfriend’
The presenter welcomed his first child with Anne-Marie in 2024, and he is also stepfather to her two daughters from her first marriage
Ant, who is married to wife Anne-Marie Corbett, refers to her children; Daisy, 18, and Poppy, 16, as his daughters (pictured together in May)
It comes after Ant revealed he wants to have ‘loads more children’ with Anne-Marie.
The presenter, 50, welcomed a baby boy, Wilder, with Anne-Marie in 2024.
When asked if he would want to expand the family, Ant said: ‘Yeah definitely, I’d have loads more kids. I mean I’m too tired, but I would have more kids. I’ve got really good, fun older ones. And a two-year-old who’s, he’s funny.’
Ant and his wife Anne-Marie traded in their £6million Wimbledon home for a quieter £10million gated pad in Cobham, Surrey in February.
Ant refers to Anne-Marie as his ‘rock and lifesaver’ and she took on the role of sober coach after he had a much-publicised alcohol and prescription painkiller addiction, which he has now overcome.
He claims he’s now the ‘happiest he’s ever been’ and that’s all thanks to the wholesome life they lead together.
Ant first embraced the quiet life in 2018 while in recovery and he said she was ‘his rock’ during this time.
He said: ‘I got out of hospital and I rented houses in the country and locked myself away and walked the dog. No TV or social media. I did nothing.
‘I barely watched the World Cup. I worked on myself and got well. For 16 years I’ve spent my birthday in Australia so I thought I’d spend it with Anne-Marie. It was gorgeous.’
Ant and Anne-Marie met back in 2017, when Anne-Marie began working with the TV host as his personal assistant in the TV world.
She was previously married to Scott, but the pair split in October 2017 – the year Ant also split from his first wife, Lisa Armstrong, who Anne-Marie also worked for and was friends with.
Ant has always maintained that their relationship began after they were both single saying Anne-Marie is ‘honest and good’.
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