[Jon]

I’d be pretty surprised if Ant & Dec didn’t have still have their golden handcuffs deal with ITV forbidding them to presenting on other rival channels. I think that car show would have just been an Ant & Dec format and they wouldn’t have been allowed to present it.

Having a golden handcuffs deal wouldn’t prevent talent from appearing as a guest on another channel as that would be counter productive from the point of view of everyone.

I don’t think Mulhern would have an exclusive deal with ITV, I imagine that would have prevented him from appearing on WILTY in a capacity that wasn’t to plug something. Of course whilst Ant & Dec have never appeared on WILTY, WILTY has appeared on Ant & Dec.

Of course you mention Ant & Dec did do a one off ‘Friday Night Takeaway’ on BBC One as part of Comic Relief night ages ago but those would have no doubt been considered special circumstances.