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Geordie TV hosts Ant and Dec have secured their first number one single today - 17 years after their chart career came to an end.

The duo prompted a download dash for their 1994 hit Let's Get Ready To Rhumble after performing the track on their Saturday Night Takeaway show last weekend.

Their re-entry into the singles chart went straight to number one, knocking The Saturdays' What About Us featuring Sean Paul off the top stop.

Presenters Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly say they will donate the profits to Childline.

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Ant and Dec, who are on course for their first number one single with “Let's Get Ready To Rhumble”, have revealed that they only performed the song “for a laugh” and to fill a gap on Saturday Night Takeaway.

Watch: Ant and Dec perform "Let's Get Ready to Rhumble" on Saturday Night Takeaway

The presenting pair told Daybreak the resurgence of the 1994 hit was “mad” and added that they “never expected it would be number one in the midweek charts”.

The duo told Daybreak that all the money received would go to the Childline charity.

Read more: Ant & Dec **Rhumble to number one on chart update**

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Presenting duo Ant and Dec are at number one on the Official Chart Update as their 1994 single “Let's Get Ready To Rhumble” enjoys an unexpected resurgence.

Read: Ant and Dec Ready To Rhumble their way to the top of the charts

The song, released 19 years ago when they performed as PJ & Duncan, has been downloaded by thousands of fans following their performance on their prime-time ITV show, Saturday Night Takeaway, last weekend.

Watch: Ant and Dec perform "Let's Get Ready to Rhumble" on Saturday Night Takeaway

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Geordie duo Ant and Dec have been tweeting about the meteoric rise of their 1994 hit "Let's Get Ready To Rhumble" in the iTunes chart after their performance of the single on Saturday night.

Dec took to Twitter to voice his disbelief about its success.

This is seriously nuts! I can't quite believe #LetsGetReadyToRhumble is a bigger hit 19yrs on, you're all mad! D x

From @antanddec on Twitter: (11:31 am, Mon 25 Mar 2013)

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As Ant and Dec's hit "Let's Get Ready To Rhumble" is scaling the charts, we take a look back at the original video from 1994.

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Geordie duo Ant & Dec's 'Let's Get Ready to Rhumble' has scaled the iTunes Chart after a surprise performance of their 1994 hit on ITV's 'Saturday Night Takeaway'.

Their pop careers may be long gone but the track is heading back into the charts again and reached number 2 by Saturday night. It is set to oust The Saturdays from the top spot when the Official Chart is unveiled on Easter Sunday.

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North East duo Ant and Dec have been discussing their plans for their future.

"We love I'm a Celebrity, Britain's Got Talent, Saturday Night Takeaway, but they're all live shows.

The difference between doing a live show and a sitcom is that a sitcom can live on. If you do it well, it can leave a legacy, whereas most of our live work never gets repeated because it's final, it's done, you start again.

So we're developing a silent comedy idea at the moment. It will take a couple of years and we might never get there, but it's the way we'd like to go."

In an interview with the Independent, Ant McPartlin spoke about the pair's happiness with how things were going in the UK for them, but also wishing to try to crack America one last time.

"It would need to be the right show. I think we've got one big push left in us, and we'd have to make sure it's worth it. If it happens, it happens, but because everything is going so well over here, we're not dying to break America."

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