Melanie Bracewell

Melanie Bracewell, welcome to Inheritance.

It really is kind of that room.

Sometimes like looking in here and just doing work, even if we're not recording, it's quite relaxing.

It's nice.

We are all amazing girlypops here at Shameless Media.

And you are absolutely just, I don't know, killing it right now.

You have been for a long time, obviously.

You are a writer, television host, best known for your witty, sharp, and really superb storytelling, co-host of The Cheap Seats, and you've been on Have You Paying Attention, Taskmaster, and

And you're that woman who impersonated Jacinda Ardern with a wig on all the while ago in lockdown.

And you performed at a Labour Party event back when she was PM.

Can you take me back to that gig?

I want to start off with your recipe and go back to you growing up in New Zealand because you moved here when you landed your gig on the cheap seats.

You'd come over for, like, shows and some work in Oz.

Yes.

Your recipe is a good spaghetti bolognese.

And you told our producers that because your parents smoked, their taste buds were fried and they made like this spaghetti bolognese really spicy.

I come from a blended family.

I'm one of four and I'm the eldest.

I always feel like the youngest, I've got a younger 20-year-old sister, so there's quite a big age gap.

And I know there's quite a big age gap between you and your siblings too.