TELLY host Ant McPartlin has told how he was left with a €600 bill after offering to buy a round at a Co Leitrim pub.

Ant was in Ireland this week to tell a pub full of locals in Drumkeeran that DNA tests had shown they were all distant relations.

2 Telly hosts Ant and Dec bought a round of drinks for everyone in a Leitrim pub

2 The hosts were filming for their new TV show

But the link cost the 43-year-old — reported to be worth almost €65million — when he announced the drinks were on him at Wynne’s pub.

Ant and sidekick Declan Donnelly travelled here to film Ant and Dec’s DNA Journey and the programme showed Ant talking about his bar bill the next day.

He said: “So we stayed in there for an hour, and (it cost) €600!”

Dec joked: “They must have had crisps and nuts and everything.”

Ant jokingly impersonated locals saying “make it a double, make it a double” and even wondered if they had charged him for filling up their cars with petrol at a set of pumps outside the bar.

But pub owner Geraldine Wynne insisted punters had been “genuine” and had not overdone it at Ant’s expense.

She told The Irish Sun: "An hour was the length of time they (Ant & Dec) were in there but the function started before they arrived and was still going on after they left. That was the length of time involved, and there were a lot of people around for it."

Geraldine described the I’m A Celebrity hosts as “really genuine, nice people” and said she hoped they might return.

'FRIENDLY AND GREAT FUN'

She said: “Ant and Dec talked to everyone, they were very friendly and great fun.

"The researchers and film crew with them were genuine people too. Watching it back on TV on Sunday night on ITV was really nice.”

She added that she wasn’t offended by Ant joking to viewers there was something ‘seriously wrong’ about the petrol pumps directly outside her pub.

Geraldine said: “They just wouldn’t be used to something like that.”

ANT AND DEC'S DNA JOURNEY

The two-part special follows Ant and Dec as they research their family history with the help of historians and genealogists.

TV producers were unable to find any living relatives of Ant in Ireland, but did find a concentration of McPartlins in Drumkeeran — where DNA revealed that half the village was related to him.

Visibly moved at his first visit to the village from where his family hailed, Ant said: “I might move there.”

Indeed, after Ant disappeared off screens last year following a conviction for drink-driving, pal Dec said he feared that Ant was going to turn his back on their thirty year TV presenting partnership and “move to Drumkeeran, and open a butcher’s shop”.

However the pair have now reunited and will return to TV screens hosting I’m A Celebrity this weekend.

ANCESTOR DISCOVERIES

ITV viewers heard how Ant, who has battled booze, had a war hero ancestor who survived World War I — as his great grandfather Peter won the Military Medal for his bravery at the Somme.

In contrast, Dec’s great grandfather, James Donnelly, who was in the Crimean War, had been court marshalled three times for drunkenness.

Both men had relatives who served in the Tyneside Irish Brigade in the First World War.

Ant also previously told of his sadness at discovering his Irish grandmother Kitty’s difficult childhood.

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During the show, he discovered the story that her mother died in childbirth was untrue, but that she instead died of tuberculosis.

Ant said: “So much pain for this young girl.

"It’s information my family has been dying to know for years.”