Mel Giedroyc Quotes

Mel Giedroyc

Profession : Entertainer

Birth : June 5, 1968

The Gift' doesn't deal with the neat, tie-me-up-with-a-bow kind of stories - they are grittier, messier, and not all of them have a happy resolution. You are following people and events that are more difficult, more elusive, and therefore harder to pin down.

Mel Giedroyc

It was very hard not to get utterly and wholeheartedly drawn into the stories on 'The Gift.'

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The strength of 'The Gift' is that the people featured and their stories are given the space to speak for themselves.

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Hate showers, they're weird.

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I bloody love transport and plotting a route through London.

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I don't like it when people leave their takeaways on the street: it makes me sad and it draws foxes and rats.

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It's a very basic, simple idea, isn't it - saying thank you, saying sorry - and in the overcomplicated, over-busy world we live in it is very powerful.

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I think if you're 50 you just ruddy say it.

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I don't like it when people lie about their age.

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It's often the guests you don't expect to be interesting who are the best. On 'Light Lunch,' I remember a guest called Ivor Spencer. He was the Royal Toastmaster and he was great, a real good-time guy.

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We love live because of the roughness round the edges, the excitement, the madness, and stuff going off on all sorts of weird tangents. It's like hosting a jolly in your house. We're welcoming people in and giving them snacks.

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We would pay for our own shows, we would put them on, we did everything ourselves, so I've always totally loved being on a stage in front of an audience, that is where I feel most happy really.

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There is a baked item in the show, I'm there.

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I don't have a problem with the concept of a box set per se - we have many of them merrily lined up on the shelf above the telly. No, what gives me the pip is the fact that I'm never going to watch any of them.

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I'm completely recipe-bound. Everything has to be prepped and laid out in separate bowls with a Do Not Disturb sign on the door. I've no flair.

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You can't hurry a loaf of bread. You have to wait for it to prove and rise.

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There is surely a finite amount of European baked goods, isn't there?

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We all have somebody in our lives, that however closely related or not, is affected by terminal illness and these amazing nurses, who often work through the night with people, not only suffering from a terminal illness but their families, they're just extraordinary people.

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The world is such a blooming topsy-turvy, fragile, bleak place.

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I don't want to take things for granted.

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