ANT and Dec’s secret history with Frankie Dettori has been revealed after multi-millionaires hired him for an important role.
The Geordie duo, known for keeping their private lives on the down low, have known the Italian jockey for years.
Now The Sun can report how the TV duo knew the Milan native before his I'm A Celeb stint.
It may come as a surprise that Frankie actually rode one of Ant and Dec's horses.
However, the horse never made it to the field with the jockey, as it failed to finish better than fifth during a doomed race career.
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Named It's A Yes From Me, the runner was co-owned with pop mogul Simon Cowell.
The horse was penniless from six races, never finishing high enough to recoup some of that £35,000 investment.
It's doubtful Cowell, with hundreds of millions in the bank, lost any sleep over that.
But Ant and Dec revealed just how bad things got with the horse during an interview in 2021.
Dec said: "It was awful, it was a dreadfully slow horse.
"It wasn't a racehorse it was just a horse, because it didn't race.
"Every time we got to the BGT studio Simon would say, 'I keep paying stable fees on this horse, but I've never seen it run'."
Simon originally wanted to name the nag after himself, but they settled on It’s A Yes From Me when they bought it in 2013.
Dec revealed its eventual fate: "I think it got rehomed."
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