Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly have explained why Alison Hammond’s hilarious horror prank almost didn’t happen.
Saturday Night Takeaway comes to our televisions this weekend, providing all the laughs in only a few hours.
Ant and Dec will, as always, provide viewers at home and the live studio audience with a slew of fresh and exclusive features, live surprises, famous guests, returning favourites, and spectacular antics.
Joe Wicks and Claudia Winkleman will star in new editions of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Ear! while Alison and Rylan Clark become the next victims of their very own Undercovers!
Nevertheless, a new season trailer reveals Alison’s trick going horribly wrong.
Alison visits a horror hotel with flashing lights and scary dolls in a footage that shows what happened.
‘It’s so haunted, get me out of here!’ she cries, before refusing to stay there.
The tape then turns to Alison getting in the car to depart before being talked down and later declaring in the hotel restaurant: ‘The place is haunted. ‘I can feel it.’
‘Let’s take things up a little,’ Ant warns, as the pair break into laughter.
‘She fell for it, hook, line and sinker!’ they laugh, unable to hold it all back.
Ant confessed on The One Show that after viewing the prank, he felt’sorry’ for the This Morning presenter.
‘That is the one that nearly went absolutely haywire,’ Dec revealed.
He went on to explain: ‘It was meant to be an overnight stay, she got as far as reception, and she was like, “I’m not staying here, this place is too spooky”.
‘She got out, got in the car and was like, “Take me home,” we’re like, “She can’t go home! We’ve set the whole place up!”‘
‘We had hidden cameras everywhere, and she was like, “No, I’m not going back in”.’
Ant explained that they had to call a This Morning producer to persuade Alison to stay in the hotel, as well as prank the driver and get him to leave.
‘That is the one that, very nearly didn’t happen. It’s the closest it’s been to falling apart,’ Dec added.
The One Show airs weekdays from 7pm on BBC One.
Source My Celebrity Life.