Melanie Sykes
Melanie Ann Sykes is an English television and radio presenter, and model. She is best known for co-hosting Today with Des and Mel with Des O’Connor and Let’s Do Lunch with Gino D’Acampo. In the mid-1990s Sykes first came to public attention as the face of the Boddingtons Bitter advertisements. Sykes took part in the fourteenth series of I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!
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Melanie Ann Sykes is an English television and radio presenter, and model. She is best known for co-hosting Today with Des and Mel with Des O’Connor and Let’s Do Lunch with Gino D’Acampo. In the mid-1990s Sykes first came to public attention as the face of the Boddingtons Bitter advertisements. In 2014, Sykes took part in the fourteenth series of I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! where she finished in third place, behind runner-up Jake Quickenden and winner Carl Fogarty. Sykes was confirmed as the new voice of Blind Date, taking over the role most famously held by Graham Skidmore in the original series, broadcast on Saturday nights on Channel 5.
In March 2018, she won Star Baker in Channel 4’s The Great Stand Up to Cancer Bake Off. She was a member of the Ashtonian Brass Band, along with her father, mother and two sisters, playing the baritone horn. She has also hosted a variety of awards ceremonies, including Miss World, the BAFTA Awards and the Q Awards. She regularly fills in for Paul O’Grady as presenter of The Paul O’Grady Show when he is unable to appear. In 2010, she guest presented five episodes of The 5 O’Clock Show with Denise van Outen on Channel 4.
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