Mirror of their new book Once Upon A Tyne.Referring to ITV show Ant and Dec’s DNA Journey which traced their ancestry and aired last year after being filmed over several years, Dec said: ‘Looking back, when we went into DNA, our relationship wasn’t where it should have been.’‘We were on autopilot, working too hard and taking each other for granted, but Ant’s break forced us both to evaluate everything, almost from the perspective of an outsider.’‘There was a real chance we were never going to