The inseparable duo of Ant & Dec, the hugely popular Brit TV hosts for Saturday Night Takeaway and I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, has taken a knock after Ant McParlin was arrested on Sunday on suspicion of drunk driving after a car crash. He went into rehab last year for addiction to painkillers and alcohol. ITV’s Primetime show has been cancelled this Saturday.
He has been in a highly lucrative partnership for 20 years with Declan Donnelly, who wrote in their autobiography: ‘‘We’ve been incredibly fortunate to have enjoyed such a remarkable time. Throughout it all, we’ve always had one constant that’s kept us sane – each other. In two decades, we’ve never spent more than two weeks apart. ‘Some people might not understand it, but our friendship is a massive, massive part of where we are today.’
Ant, 18 November 1975, is a Sun, Mercury, Uranus in Scorpio; with a charming and intense Venus Pluto in Libra opposition Jupiter with Mars in Cancer – so quite a dynamo. His Moon is in Taurus.
Dec, 25 September 1975, is a Sun Pluto in Libra sextile Saturn on one side in Leo and Neptune on the other; his talkative Mars in Gemini is trine Mercury and sextile Jupiter in upfront Aries. His Moon is probably Taurus.
Both with Taurus Moons and the Libra connection will help though it’s not intuitively that easy a mix.
Their relationship chart has a composite Sun Uranus Mercury conjunction square Saturn and trine Mars – so they don’t fit together as harmoniously as it sounds – tensions, arguments, differing approaches. The slightly hysterical world of live and reality television will help to soak some of that up. There’s also a confident Jupiter opposition Pluto, though that can also prompt each to push the other into unwise actions.
Their relationship is taking a fair knock through 2018/19 with tr Uranus opposing the Sun in April, then Uranus and square Saturn and those extend into 2019 as well; with blocks and lowered enthusiasm from tr Saturn hitting the Pluto this year and Jupiter next.
Dec looks flummoxed this year but will revive to a degree in 2019/2020, finding his mojo again, possibly partner-less.
Ant has more of a struggle ahead for the next two or maybe three years. He will bounce back after 2020.