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Mel Giedroyc 
Mel Giedroyc playing Boyka, a North Bosnian presenter, in Craig Christie's musical Eurobeat - Almost EurovisionBirth name Clare Sophie Giedroyc Born 15 June 1968
Epsom, Surrey, EnglandNationality British Genres Comedy Spouse Ben Morris Notable works and roles Mel and Sue
Light LunchMel Giedroyc (
/ˈɡiːdrɔɪtʃ/ or /ˈɡjɛdrɔɪ̯t͡ɕ/; born Melanie Clare Sophie Giedroyc on 5 June 1968 in Epsom, Surrey) is an English television presenter, actress, and writer.Contents
Mel and Sue
Giedroyc is best known for presenting comedy items alongside Sue Perkins. The two women met whilst students at Cambridge and both were members of the famous Footlights comedy club.
As Mel and Sue, the duo were short-listed for the Daily Express Best Newcomers Award at the Edinburgh Festival in 1993. After a few years writing for French & Saunders, they hosted a lunchtime show on Channel 4 called Light Lunch (and the early evening version, Late Lunch). They were reunited in 2010 to host the cookery competition The Great British Bake Off, on BBC Two from 16th August 2010.[1] The two returned for the second series on 27th September 2011.
Television projects
Giedroyc has also been a presenter on Channel 4's RI:SE. She narrated Celebrity Driving School in 2003. Some other ventures include being a contestant on the 2005 series of The Games, co-starring in the 2005 BBC One sitcom Blessed and co-presenting Richard Hammond's 5 O'Clock Show on ITV1. She was in one episode of The Vicar of Dibley.
Giedroyc was the sixth student to be voted out of Comic Relief does Fame Academy and was a celebrity judge on the 2007 edition of Making Your Mind Up along with John Barrowman. She starred as one of the presenters in the show EUROBEAT: Almost Eurovision! at the Edinburgh Fringe and subsequently in the West End at the Novello Theatre. She played the Fairy Liquid in a production of Jack and the Beanstalk at London's Barbican theatre in December 2007. She is currently performing in a children's sketch show for the BBC, called Sorry I've Got No Head. In 2010 she was a celebrity guest team captain on What Do Kids Know? along with Rufus Hound, Joe Swash and Sara Cox on Watch (TV channel).
Mel has been a panellist on Five's The Wright Stuff in 2007, 2008 and most recently February 2010. She is also in the new CBBC series Sadie J.
Radio
In August 2010, Giedroyc appeared on the Dave Gorman show on Absolute Radio as one of his co-hosts, standing in for Danielle Ward. She has also appeared on series 4, 5 and 6 of the Count Arthur Radio Show on BBC Radio 4. [2] From 2 April 2011, with the rebranding of Radio 7 as Radio 4 extra, she has presented The 4 O'Clock Show, a chat show including items related to children's entertainment.
Books
- From Here to Maternity (ISBN 978-0091897505), is the diary based on her first pregnancy.
- Going Ga-Ga (ISBN 978-0091905910) follows a similar theme ("Is there life after birth?").
Personal life
Giedroyc was born in Epsom in Surrey and grew up in Leatherhead. Her father, a history writer, is a Polish-Lithuanian who came to England in 1947. She is a Roman Catholic, and has Belgian, Polish, Lithuanian and Belarussian ancestry.[3] She attended the independent Oxford High School in Oxford and later attended Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating with a 2:2 degree in Italian language and literature.[4]
She is married to Ben Morris, a TV director, with two children: Florence (born May 2002), and Vita (born February 2004).
Her sister, Coky Giedroyc, is a TV director.
See also
References
- ^ "Mel and Sue to reunite for The Great British Bake-Off". The Daily Mirror. http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2010/01/29/comeback-corner-115875-22003078/. Retrieved 9 August 2010.
- ^ http://www.absoluteradio.co.uk/djs_shows/shows/dave_gorman/blog.html?mode=post&id=154369&s=1
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0317329/
- ^ "Passed/Failed: An education in the life of comedian Mel Giedroyc". The Independent (London). 8 October 2009. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/passedfailed-an-education-in-the-life-of-comedian-mel-giedroyc-1799029.html.
External links
- IMDb
- Interview at Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2007
- Paul Theroff. Giedroyc family genealogy
- Profile of Mel Giedroyc
- Official Mel and Sue website (has not been updated in many years)
Categories:- Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
- English comedians
- English diarists
- British people of Belarusian descent
- British people of Belgian descent
- English people of Lithuanian descent
- English people of Polish descent
- English Roman Catholics
- English television presenters
- Fame Academy participants
- People from Epsom
- People from Leatherhead
- 1968 births
- Living people
- Giedraitis family
- People educated at Oxford High School (Oxford)
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