ITV has confirmed that Declan Donnelly will host the live shows of Britain’s Got Talent without long-time presenting partner Ant McPartlin. McPartlin will return for the audition episodes of the new series, which were filmed in January, before Dec heads up the live semi-finals and final which are expected to be screened nightly across one week towards the end of May.
Britain’s Got Talent – one of ITV’s most successful series – will return with a judging panel of Simon Cowell, Alesha Dixon Amanda Holden and David Walliams.
His arrest came towards the end of the current run of popular entertainment series Saturday Night Takeaway.
Last year, McPartlin entered rehab after struggling with an addiction to painkillers following a knee operation in 2015.