The I am A Celeb host has opened up the “voices in his head” that he has a continuing battle with

Declan Donnelly has opened up about his silent well being battle for the primary time. Declan opened up about his psychological well being throughout an look on Fearne Cotton’s Glad Place podcast, alongside his co-host and long-time pal Anthony McPartlin.

The I am A Celeb star revealed that he went to remedy about 5 or 6 years in the past and located it extremely useful. The Geordie presenter opened up about his “fixed anxiousness” and the sensation that he ought to at all times be busy doing one thing as he confessed he “can by no means sit down”.

Iconic duo Ant and Dec rose to fame as youngsters within the mid Nineties, the Mirror reviews. On the podcast, the pair spoke about fatherhood and the way they’ve grown to understand their lifelong careers extra as they’ve aged. When requested about his psychological well being, I am A Celeb host Donnelly admitted: “I battle a bit with, it is sort of a low degree, fixed anxiousness about ‘must be doing this’ or ‘I’ve obtained to be doing…

“I by no means really feel I can sit down and simply watch telly, I at all times really feel like I must be doing one thing else. There’s that anxiousness that there is a job that must be achieved someplace and I must be doing it.

“I battle with that so much, with attempting to calm that voice at the back of your head that is going, ‘no, you need to be utilizing this time extra productively’. I went by means of a interval of getting remedy about 5, 5 or 6 years in the past. I actually obtained so much out of it. I actually loved it.”

Donnelly, who turned 50 final 12 months, revealed that after taking a break from remedy, he tried to e-book in for one more session however therapist knowledgeable him that he could not see him. He added: “He did advocate anyone else and I’ve nonetheless obtained these particulars, I simply have not managed to make an appointment but.”

The looks was Donnelly’s first time starring on a podcast, the place he emphasised that they take their roles “extremely critically”.

Ant and Dec have fronted a number of primetime leisure reveals over the course of their profession, together with Ant And Dec’s Saturday Evening Takeaway, Britain’s Acquired Expertise and Ant And Dec’s Limitless Win.

Donnelly shared: “Once we’re initiatives, we at all times take a look at how can we get the entire household collectively?

“To entertain the entire household is not any imply feat, and you have to attempt to seize every technology and entertain them. It is leisure, it is enjoyable, however we take it extremely critically.”

McPartlin added: “We do the perfect job on this planet. We have now amusing day by day.

“We have hosted some turkeys over time. It hasn’t at all times been a hit.

“It is a privilege to be in somebody’s front room on a Saturday night time internet hosting an enormous present.”

The duo additionally introduced they’re launching their very own podcast sequence collectively, Hanging Out With Ant & Dec, which debuts later this week.

Donnelly revealed they’d truly recorded a pilot for a podcast “about 15 years in the past” in a pub, however hadn’t taken it any additional on the time.