Mel Giedroyc Quotes

Mel Giedroyc

Profession : Entertainer

Birth : June 5, 1968

Funders, financiers why don't you support childcare? Make it a budget line in your productions and please please let's not be ageist.

Mel Giedroyc

Christmas traditions are important in my family. Being half English and half Polish-Lithuanian, we have two separate celebrations.

Mel Giedroyc

We're so used to seeing Agatha Christie's work on screen that going back to the original is a real joy.

Mel Giedroyc

When you have a baby in showbiz, people think you've died.

Mel Giedroyc

I'm the youngest of four in a large, exhibitionist family. The only way to get attention was to throw yourself off the top of a ladder - as one of my cousins used to do - or make people laugh.

Mel Giedroyc

I wish I could play electric guitar.

Mel Giedroyc

Mum was in her early 50s when she had four strokes in quick succession that almost took her off. I'd just come down from Cambridge with a rubbish degree. I spent a year reading to her - her eyesight was badly affected - and making sure she got proper rest. It was a special time but very intense, too.

Mel Giedroyc

Family is everything to me.

Mel Giedroyc

My father describes himself as a Pole of Lithuanian descent. At Southampton University, he read aeronautical engineering and then the family moved to Hong Kong - this was before I was born - where he designed aeroplanes. Back in the U.K., he worked as a civil engineer, although every spare minute was spent researching his family's history.

Mel Giedroyc

Maternity bras are the Alcatraz under-wear. If they were a door they'd have a mortise lock, a padlock and the rest.

Mel Giedroyc

There have been a lot of technical advances in the bra industry over the years, (such as those with Cellophane straps that are supposed to look as if you're not wearing them), but the maternity bra is still stuck in the 1940s.

Mel Giedroyc

We human beings are very dark, strange things.

Mel Giedroyc

I love a bit of Saturday-night TV.

Mel Giedroyc

You can do a lot worse than spend an hour a week singing. We should prescribe choirs on the NHS for anxiety and stress.

Mel Giedroyc

I'm going to be 50 in 2018 and I figure that I should try to get as much in before then. After 50, you never know what might happen.

Mel Giedroyc

Normally we go in, we do a series and then that's it, we're axed!

Mel Giedroyc

I'm always ludicrously early/on time.

Mel Giedroyc

I'm bad on passive aggression. I know that.

Mel Giedroyc

My job with Sue on 'Bake Off' was to look after the bakers - and to be honest, a lot of that was done off screen as well as on screen. It's very much the same on 'Let It Shine.' You get to know people, you get involved, you want things to be alright.

Mel Giedroyc

The Bake Off' can get emotional, but 'The Gift' is a whole different league!

Mel Giedroyc