Ant and Dec shocked by their Let's Get Ready To Rhumble success: "We did it for a laugh!"

Ant and Dec shocked by their Let's Get Ready To Rhumble success: "We did it for a laugh!"

A good old pop reunion is always a massively exciting thing â€" just like when Em in the place reunited with Easy V (that’s a Wannabe reference to Emma Bunton and Victoria Beckham in case we’ve lost you already) for the Return of the Spice Girls tour in 2007.

And, even with all the brilliance of The Big Reunion and the comebacks of bands such as B*Witched, Liberty X, Blue and Atomic Kitten on the show, it’s Ant and Dec’s shock storm of the charts this week that’s surprised us most.

But we shouldn’t be worrying our little heads with our own thoughts when the Geordie presenting duo are in a state of utter disbelief at the spike in digital sales of their 1994 hit Let’s Get Ready To Rhumble.

The track has stormed to the top of the mid-week charts following their performance on Saturday Night Takeaway at the weekend.

This is Ant and Dec looking super cool now but they looked equally as brilliant as PJ and Duncan back in the old days

Speaking about the random turn of events on ITV’s Daybreak, Ant said: “It was a joke. We were fans of The Big Reunion anyway, so we were going to do something with them at the end of the show.

“And then we realised that we didn’t kind of have enough to fill what the End of the Show, Show, normally run to. And we thought, ‘Well, we could possibly dust off the old baseball caps and give it a go for a laugh.’

The TV hosts decided to perform their old hit "for a laugh" so here's a picture of them, erm, laughing

 

“And the production team on Saturday Night Takeaway went mad, saying, ‘We remember that song, let’s do it!’ So we thought, ‘It would be a bit of a laugh then, we’ll do it.’

“We never expected we would be number one in the mid-week charts.”

Now, in our heads, the 90s are still happening because they were actually BRILLIANT but with all The Big Reunion bands back again and Ant and Dec on course to score their first ever number one, it’s like time stopped and we’re living in a blissful heaven of sheer excellence.

Little Ant and Dec from Saturday Night Takeaway are yet to reveal their feelings on Let's Get Ready To Rhuble but they don't look impressed here

 

And it seems it’s the same for Dec and his bestie as they still remember the dance routines from 1994.

Dec said: “We did a little bit of rehearsal on Thursday. We had four hours in our schedule to rehearse the dance, and we spent an hour and it all kind of came back to us. We’d obviously done it so many times in the past it all came back to us, so we had three hours off.”

And, after announcing their plans to try and rake in some cash by breaking America, the lads are so kind that they are planning to donate some of the money they make from the song to charity.

Absolute legends.