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Ant McPartlins 1988 Guide to Sweet Fried Eggs

Ant McPartlin demonstrated how to make a 'Sweet Fried Egg' in an adorable throwback TV appearance from 1988. The ITV star, 50, showed off his presenting skills ...

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April 13, 2026

demonstrated how to make a 'Sweet Fried Egg' in an adorable throwback TV appearance from 1988.

The star, 50, showed off his presenting skills at just 12-years-old on a children’s show Why Don’t You…? which was filmed 38 years ago.

Ant seemed confident in front of the camera, despite being without his co-host Declan Donnelly, whom he established a partnership with on Byker Grove in 1989.

In the archive clip, shared to the BBC's Instagram, Ant was seen wearing an oversized sweatshirt with his name printed on the front.

Standing behind a table with his ingredients laid out in front of him, Ant explained to viewers how they could make 'Sweet Fried Eggs'.

He said: 'This is a recipe for Sweet Fried Eggs and the funny thing is, it has nothing to do with eggs.

'What you do is get your slices of Swiss Rolls and then put marmalade on, dollop it on top like that, your suppose to use jam but I don't like it.'

Ant McPartlin demonstrated how to make a 'Sweet Fried Egg' in an adorable throwback TV appearance from 1988

The ITV star, 50, showed off his presenting skills at just 12-years-old on a BBC children’s show Why Don’t You…? which was filmed 38 years ago

The youngster continued picking up whipped cream: 'Then put your cream, which is my best bit, go mad with it.

'Then get your giant peach, which is the yellow of the egg and add it on top and then you can add some more cream if you want.

'There you have it that's your sweet fried egg. I'm eating mine now me'.

The BBC captioned the clip: '1988: Young Ant McPartlin demonstrates how to make ‘Sweet Fried Eggs’.

'He’s a ubiquitous part of British TV but everyone has to start somewhere, and in the case of Anthony McPartlin, it was on children’s show Why Don’t You…?

'The series tried out games and recipes sent in by its young audience and #OnThisDay in 1988 12-year-old Ant demonstrated how to make Sweet Fried Eggs - and he didn’t hold back on the squirty cream.'

Ant has more recently returned to the kitchen to host a digital cooking series alongside Dec called Taste Mates, where the duo cook a variety of fun recipes and review them.

It comes after , calling fatherhood 'our biggest achievement'.

Ant welcomed his first child, a son named Wilder, with wife Anne-Marie Corbett, 47, in May 2024 and is stepdad to her two teenage daughters.

, 50, has two young children, daughter Isla, seven, and son Jack, three, with his wife, Ali Astall, 47.

But in the latest episode of their podcast Hanging Out With the two revealed their regrets that they hadn't had more children.

After being asked by a listener about their experiences of fatherhood Dec gushed 'it's the best thing ever. I wish I'd done it earlier and I wish I'd had ten,' before laughing 'maybe not ten. Maybe three'.

Ant agreed, telling him 'I've got three and I'd have more.'

Ant seemed confident in front of the camera, despite being without his co-host Declan Donnelly, whom he established a partnership with on Byker Grove in 1989

In the archive clip, shared to the BBC's Instagram, Ant stood behind a table with his ingredients laid out in front of him, Ant explained to viewers how they could make 'Sweet Fried Eggs'

Ant has more recently returned to the kitchen to host a digital cooking series alongside Dec called Taste Mates, where the duo cook a variety of fun recipes and review them

'So, I I feel like I had a really great introduction to fatherhood because I got to be able to talk to them straight away. We could go out and the feedback was immediate.'

'And then when Wilder came along, I got to do all of the baby and toddler stuff that I didn't get to do with the girls. So, I've had the best of both worlds really.'

'It changes you for the better. All of the sleepless nights, the early mornings, the tiredness is worth it. It's the greatest thing I think you can do. It far surpasses anything that we've achieved in our career.'

Dec agreed, calling parenthood 'our biggest achievement. Of everything we've done professionally, it's the thing that I think we've got the most satisfaction from.'

'When they first come along, you don't realise how much they change your life, but for the better, the absolute better. And it's almost like when they do come along, you've discovered the meaning of life.'

'For me, I was lucky enough to have two, a girl and a boy. I was a bit worried before Jack came along because I thought, "God, am I ever going to be able to love him as much as I love Isla?"'

'Do I have to half my love to both of them? Do they both get half of my love? Because she's got it all at the moment. And then he came along and you realise then, oh no, you don't half anything.'

'You get double the love. You reach another level within you that you just find more love for this other little thing.'

Ant McPartlins 1988 Guide to Sweet Fried Eggs

'So, I I feel like I had a really great introduction to fatherhood because I got to be able to talk to them straight away. We could go out and the feedback was immediate.'

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