Ant and Dec have been awarded OBEs as part of the Queen’s Birthday Honours List – and they’re clearly chuffed with the news.
Writing on Instagram, they shared the below photo with a heartfelt caption saying that they are “just two ordinary lads from Newcastle” who were shocked but “incredibly honoured” with the accolade.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BGfTjGLQDUg/
The post in full reads:
We are both shocked, but incredibly honoured to receive OBE’s.
We absolutely love what we do and have done since we started out aged 13. We are very passionate about the shows we present and we were especially honoured this year to host both The Queen’s 90th Birthday Celebration and the 40 Years of the Princes Trust documentary.
What we do also allows us to work with some amazing charities that really do make a difference.
2016 has been a fantastic year so far, and we’re so grateful for all the support we receive.
We are just two ordinary lads from the west end of Newcastle. We hope us receiving this honour can inspire young people to chase their dreams and believe that anything is possible.
This will definitely be the proudest our mams have ever been!
#BirthdayHonours #BirthdayHonoursList
They also posted another photo to their official Twitter account where Ant looks a little worse for wear.
Maybe celebrating too much? He He
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X pic.twitter.com/CY24VT2PaB— antanddec (@antanddec) June 11, 2016
Struggling to read and reply to all of your congrats and well wishes on our OBE's. #chuffed.
Me and the little fella thank you so much.
A x— antanddec (@antanddec) June 11, 2016
