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Saturday Night Takeaway's Ant McPartlin shock at discovering undiagnosed health condition


TV personality Ant McPartlin revealed that "never knew" he had attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) until he was diagnosed with the condition in his forties

During the interview, the TV personality sent his thoughts to people who may be “struggling” with ADHD, and discussed how in terms of his career it was “brilliant” but it was less great away from his professional life. Ant isn’t the only familiar face to have opened up about being diagnosed with ADHD, and celebs including Sam Thompson, Lily Allen and Sheridan Smith have spoken about living with the condition. Ant said aspects of his condition were "brilliant" for his career (Image: Karwai Tang/WireImage)In a pre-recorded VT, Nadia met up with a specialist called Rebecca to go through an ADHD assessment which looked at the panellist’s childhood and adult life, with the star noting how she’d got low self esteem and had stopped herself from driving due to “losing consciousness”.

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