Melanie Clare Sophie 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 chat show Mel and Sue for ITV. In early 2017, she co-presented the BBC show Let It Shine.
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Melanie Clare Sophie 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 chat show Mel and Sue for ITV. She 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. In early 2017, she co-presented the BBC show Let It Shine. Her father, Michal, an aircraft designer and historian of Polish-Lithuanian descent, moved to Britain in 1947; he died in December 2017. Her mother, Rosemary \”Rosy\” Cumpston, is of English origin. She attended the independent Oxford High School, and later attended Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating with a lower second degree in French and Italian. The two women met while students at the University of Cambridge and were members of the Footlights comedy club.
The duo were short-listed for the Daily Express Best Newcomers Award at the Edinburgh Festival in 1993. In 2010, she was reunited with Sue Perkins in 2010 to host the cookery competition The GreatBritishBake Off, on BBC Two from 16 August 2010. In 2012 and 2013, she hosted two special charity series for Sport Relief and Comic Relief featuring celebrities who took part for charity. In 2014, she guest hosted an episode of The Great Sport Relief Bake Off and one episode of The Great Comic Relief Bake off. In March 2014, Gied Troyc presented Collectaholics, a mini-series for BBC Two From May 2014, based upon the mobile app Draw Something. In September 2016, Love Productions announced that a three-year deal had been agreed to broadcast The Great Brit Bake Off on Channel 4 instead of the BBC, from 2017. She plays Mrs V, the owner of the Y café, in CBBC programme Sadie J and is also the voice of Mist in Mist: Sheepdog Tales.
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