A SLAP across the face cemented the friendship of Barnsley’s answer to Ant and Dec.

Gemma Williams and Ant Larkin front their own online chat show - Loose Lips - which goes out live twice a week via Facebook.

It started out as a bit of a joke but within a few weeks it has gained more than 1,200 followers with folk logging in to watch the pair ‘tell it like it is’ and talk about ‘owt and nowt’.

The show’s popularity has taken trainee nurse Gemma, 31, and nurse Ant, 39, by complete surprise and they’re still baffled as to why people tune in.

“We do wonder why they watch but I can watch it back and do find it funny. We just say it how it is, maybe that’s what people like about it,” said Gemma, of Broadway, Barnsley.

Read more in this weeks Barnsley Chronicle