Declan Donnelly Movies and Career Information

Declan Joseph Oliver "Dec" Donnelly (born 25 September 1975) is one half of the British born acting and television presenting duo Ant & Dec, with the other being Anthony McPartlin. He came to prominence in the children's drama series Byker Grove and as one half of the pop music duo PJ & Duncan. Since then, Ant & Dec have had a very successful career as TV presenters, presenting programmes such as SMTV Live, Friends Like These, Pop Idol, Britain's Got Talent, I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!, Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, PokerFace and Push the Button. They have also returned to acting, starring in a 2002 Tribute to The Likely Lads and the 2006 film Alien Autopsy. Dec is the youngest of seven children to Irish parents Anne and Alphonsus Donnelly. He has three brothers: Martin, Eamonn and Dermott (a Catholic priest) and three sisters: Patricia, Moyra and Camalia. His parents, from Draperstown in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, moved with his family to Newcastle and bought a house in in 1958. Declan attended St Michael's Roman Catholic Primary School and St Cuthbert's High School, which he left with 8 GCSEs. The part of Duncan on Byker Grove was his first well