The 41-year-old and three-quarters of the Britain’s Got Talent judging panel, Amanda Holden, Simon Cowell and David Walliams, delighted fans when they all brought their dogs on stage for a spot of Doga, better known as doggy yoga.
After some heavy breathing and reaching their respective points of zen, the pooches all joyfully played around the set of the London Palladium theatre – except for Ant’s, who lifted his leg and opened the flood gates.
“We’ll go backstage,” Ant squirmed, as he dragged his puppy away with his head in his paws, though he was in good company as Doga instructor Mahny’s canine urinated all over David Walliams.
“Who’s dog was that?” snapped the Little Britain comic. “There’s actually wee everywhere.”
Alesha Dixon, who was left alone on the Britain’s Got talent judging panel, was understandably in hysterics while her co-stars frantically chased their pups up and down the London theatre.
The opening instalment of Britain’s Got Talent was particularly eventful for Anthony McPartlin, who was also left in floods of tears over a choir with a harrowing backstory.
What’s more, he was visibly shaken when he was forced to put his neck on the line for an eccentric magician.
Elsewhere, Amanda Holden was fuming when an act called her a “talking dog”, while a 15-year-old singer blew the judges away with a rendition of the Dreamgirls number And I Am Telling You.
Britain’s Got Talent returns tonight at 8pm on ITV.