What Little Ant and Dec look like 20 years after Saturday Night Takeaway fame

Older pictures show just how much Little Ant and Dec have changed since their days appearing on TV with Ant and Dec.

Nowadays we might know Ant McPartlin and Dec Donnelly as the hosts of I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here and Britain's Got Talent, but the pair have had a career together in broadcasting which has spanned some 35 years.

After starting out on the children's TV series Byker Grove the pair went on to host several shows and even pursued a music career, and have picked up some 40 television awards over the years.

But one of the shows they hosted was Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, which featured not one but two pairs of Ant and Dec.

The other was of course Little Ant and Dec, the child counterparts of the iconic TV hosts who would sometimes appear on the show.

And now new pictures show just how much the pair have changed in the years since appearing on the show.

Ant and Dec with the grown up 'Little Ant and Dec' (ITV)

The duo included James Pallister as Little Ant, and Dylan McKenna-Redshaw as Little Dec, with both of them taking on the roles when they were just nine years old.

And the pair were very involved in the show as well, interviewing some very famous faces during their tenure.

These included Will Smith, David Beckham, Katie Price, and even Tony Blair.

Some of the antics in their segment on the show also included trying to recruit Brooklyn Beckham to their favourite football team, getting Ewan MacGregor to teach them the bagpipes, and persuading Hugh Grant to don a pair of comically large false ears.

James as the face of an RAC recruitment drive at the HQ by Walsall (RAC)

They were on the show from the time that it started until 2006, when the pair returned to their education and continued on with their lives.

The decision was reportedly taken to cut the Little Ant and Dec segment after the pair went through a growth spurt.

Little Ant and Dec did return to the show though seven years later in 2013.

However, you've probably guessed that by this point James and Dylan were not so little anymore, so the pair were recast, with Neil Overend and Haydn Reid taking on the roles when they returned.

Dylan has now started up a fitness business (Instagram/mckenna_dylan)

But what have the original pair gone on to do after their TV appearances?

Well, James went on to become a vehicle technician at BMW, before working for breakdown support service the RAC, saying: "I absolutely love my job. There's nothing better than being out on the roads helping people who have broken down. I really pride myself on being able to fix most of the cars I go out to."

Meanwhile Dylan has started his own nutrition business, and his instagram shows him with an impressive physique.

The pair caught up with Ant and Dec in 2013, this time over a pint, with Dylan saying: "It's always good to see Ant and Dec again. They were shocked when they saw us, it's been a few years since we have caught up and we are much taller!"