Mel Giedroyc Quotes

Mel Giedroyc

Profession : Entertainer

Birth : June 5, 1968

Performing on radio is great, you roll up with no makeup in pyjamas and nobody will know.

Mel Giedroyc

I had to sit down and promise the kids I would no longer have any spray tans. My husband started sending me the carrot emoji.

Mel Giedroyc

The Bake Off' taps into nostalgic feelings about your mum baking in the kitchen. It's a big ruddy comfort blanket, and you get attached to the bakers. It also genuinely has a good heart.

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We have our detractors. If we didn't, that would be weird. That would make me feel, 'Oh God, we must be really bland.' You have to have detractors.

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This business is fickle. You have very good patches and less good patches, but you learn to ride them out. As long as you don't take yourself too seriously, you'll be fine. When you lose sight of that, you're in trouble.

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I take each thing as it comes and try and give it 110 per cent - it's just a blessing to be able to do different things.

Mel Giedroyc

Look at someone like Mary Berry, for God's sake, that woman is just such an inspiration... what's to say you can't do stuff for years and years and years?

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I've always done stuff on stage, so it feels very natural.

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I feel very lucky. 'Bake Off' has opened more doors for me. I was so delighted to get the job.

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As someone who is a dedicated fan of the NHS, I'm extremely worried, I think its a very precious thing that needs to be nurtured, looked after.

Mel Giedroyc

I'm very competitive about puns.

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Believe me, you don't want to play to an audience of seven in a village hall in Cumbernauld.

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There is something a bit volatile about hosting a big live show like 'Eurovision.' Anything could literally happen.

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Eurovision' lifts you off your feet - and, by that, I mean the absolute joy, total insanity and madness of the whole thing.

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For me, Christmas was always about presents. As a child, we each had an allotted place in the sitting room for the ceremonial unwrapping and mine was perched beside the telly on a Moroccan pouffe. We would watch our mum with bated breath as she divided up the gifts.

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Only now that I'm a mum can I fully understand the terrible pressure parents feel buying presents for their kids. My mum had four children plus all of the extended family and she not only had to feed us all but she bought presents for everyone, too.

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My problem with present buying is usually lack of time. Not because I'm super-busy, I'm just super-lazy. I leave everything to the last minute and end up running up and down the high street on Christmas Eve like a crazed baboon.

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The older I get, as well, bloody hell - time's running out. I just feel, jeez, there's so much to do. I'm not going to try to change the planet but make changes just in a small way.

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