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Ant McPartlin on warning signs ahead of addiction battle – ‘It was non-stop’

Ant McPartlin's struggles with addiction came to a head in 2018. It was touch and go. Before then, he and Dec worked at "bullet-train speed".

The Geordie presenter paid Britain’s largest ever drink-driving fine following the crash (Credit: ITV News) The thing was, they were working so much that he was able to bury himself in his professional commitments. I hadn’t quite got a proper handle on it and when testing situations happen, or you’re going through emotional heartache, turmoil, you resort back to your default setting – which is just to drink on it.” Within a year or two, they were back on track, and have since won numerous presenting awards for their work together (Credit: The Graham Norton Show/YouTube)Since then, they have broken their own record five times.

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