Mel Giedroyc
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Melanie Clare Sophie Giedroyc [IPA: mɛl gidrɔɩtʃ or gjɛdrɔɩtʃ] (born June 5, 1968) is an English television presenter, actress, and writer. Giedroyc is best known for presenting comedy items alongside Sue Perkins. 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). The two met whilst students at Cambridge, Mel being a student of Trinity College, and were both members of the famous comedy club Footlights.
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.
Mel was the 6th 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. Mel starred as one of the presenters in the show EUROBEAT: Almost Eurovision! at the Edinburgh Fringe. She recently finished playing 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, with the working title Sketchy.
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[edit] 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?").
Mel's third book, as yet unnamed is due to be published in April 2008.
[edit] Personal life
Giedroyc was born in Epsom in Surrey. She is a Roman Catholic, and has Belgian, Polish, Lithuanian, and Belarusian ancestry. The first record she ever bought was Son Of My Father by Chicory Tip, and her favourite animal is a guinea pig, of which she had one called Nigel.
She is married with two children: Florence (born: 2002), and Vita (born: February, 2004). Her sister, Coky Giedroyc, is a TV director.
