Mel Giedroyc Quotes

Mel Giedroyc

Profession : Entertainer

Birth : June 5, 1968

People are used to seeing me with Sue but for Sue and me, the most important thing is always going to be our friendship. We were mates at university - very close mates - long before we did any telly. The work is like a nice little cherry on the cake.

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There are different types of double act: the classic dumb-and-dumber, like Morecambe and Wise; the good cop/bad cop, where one's a bit spiky and the other's daft. Sue Perkins and I take what we might call the Ant and Dec approach: the double act came out of our friendship.

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I'm not on Twitter because I'm worried I'd be really dull, which would be tragic for someone who's supposed to be funny.

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I probably go to church two Sundays out of four.

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A bloke once yelled out: 'You've got chubby knees.' I was 19. I've had a real complex about my knees ever since.

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My siblings and I have got the worst teeth in Britain.

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My daughters have become little judges. If I do produce a baked item, they tut at the soggy bottom and advise me to try harder next time.

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I've spent my entire life spelling my surname.

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I love them all, there is not one member of Take That that I do not love.

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I had to go to an audition for a rather large West End musical set on a Greek island. I didn't realise that you had to go with sheet music to give to the pianist. I took a Mark Bolan CD, a small ghetto blaster and then sang along. It was absolutely appalling.

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I like Joan Jett's 'I Love Rock 'n' Roll' because it's got a nice low singing voice.

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It's a blessing to be able to do different things really, I feel so lucky.

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I love acting, I really do, I've always loved doing it, and it's a joy to be asked to do this. I mean, to do Beatrice, for God's sake, it is the best comedy Shakespeare role for a woman, and to be asked to do it.

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I'm not a trained actor, so there was always going to be a certain amount of bringing my own... I was going to say skills but they're not really skills, it's just stuff that I know how to do I suppose.

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I talked to friends who are actors and who do Shakespeare loads, and they all said 'learn it so that your family wants to clobber you, they're so bored.' You can never relax, that's the problem, because when you do, a bit of Shakespeare comes up to bite your cheeky behind. It just does, if you're not really focused on it.

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I can't speak for every mum but once you have children, I find that I don't really get through the day without grinning about five times!

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Every year the British public are so generous. It is really moving living in Britain. Fundraising is something we do tremendously well.

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I feel very warmly and joyfully towards BBC Children in Need.

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Friends before work.

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Give more acting roles to 48-year-old half-Lithuanians who just don't want to be pigeon-holed as bakery presenters.

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