Mel Giedroyc

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Melanie Clare Sophie Giedroyc (born on 5 June 1968), better known as Mel Giedroyc, is an English television presenter, comedian and actress. With Sue Perkins, she has co-hosted series including Light Lunch for Channel 4, The Great British Bake Off for the BBC, and the chat show Mel and Sue for ITV.

Giedroyc is best known for comedy and presenting work with Sue Perkins. The two women met while students at the University of Cambridge and were members of the Footlights comedy club. Their first presenting roles saw them host a lunchtime show on Channel 4 called Light Lunch (and the early evening version, Late Lunch).

Giedroyc was reunited with Sue Perkins in 2010 to host the cookery competition The Great British Bake Off on BBC Two. In September 2016, it was announced that a three-year deal had been agreed to broadcast The Great British Bake Off on Channel 4, instead of the BBC, from 2017. Giedroyc and Perkins announced that they would not be continuing with the show on its new network.

In March 2014, Giedroyc presented Collectaholics, a factual mini-series for BBC Two.

From May 2014, Giedroyc presented one series of the Channel 4 programme Draw It!, based upon and developed by the makers of the mobile app Draw Something.

In 2015, Giedroyc narrated eight-part BBC One series Now You See It. A second series aired in 2016.

In January 2015, Giedroyc and Perkins were given their own daytime chat show on ITV. The show, called Mel and Sue, aired for 30 episodes.

In May 2015, Giedroyc joined Scott Mills in commentating the semi-finals of the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 for the UK, on BBC Three. Since 2016, Giedroyc has presented the Eurovision You Decide programme.

In December 2015 Giedroyc performed as Frau Schmidt in The Sound of Music Live, which was broadcast on ITV.

In 2017, Giedroyc co-presented the Saturday night BBC show Let It Shine – including three live shows – alongside Graham Norton. She also narrated The Secret Chef for ITV and co-presented Let’s Sing and Dance for Comic Relief alongside Sue Perkins on BBC One.

Since June 2017, Giedroyc has presented Saturday night entertainment series Pitch Battle for BBC One. She has also presented the daily BBC Two game show Letterbox since 2017.

In July 2017, it was confirmed that Giedroyc and Perkins would host a new version of The Generation Game for BBC One. Also in 2017, Giedroyc competed in the fourth series of Taskmaster.

It was announced in 2020 that she would be appearing as the host of Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable, in which three celebrity guests are invited along to Mel’s confessional each week to find out who’s committed sins that are so bad that they should be declared ‘unforgivable’.

[Source: Wikipedia, 01/03/2021.]