Mel Giedroyc - I Lost My Biggest Fan When Mum Died
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What is Mel Giedroyc’s early career story and how did she ‘get away with’ it?
And I've never done this before in my life, and I've only done it once. I phoned my agent and I said, I want out of this. And he their dad said, Could they come and stay with us please for half term? Mum said, Absolutely. Brilliant, we'd love to have them. And they stayed for seven years. And I was doing that thing where I was half laughing, half crying. You know that thing where you're just like that. I slightly sharted at Didcut Parkway. Can I say that?
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Mel Gedreutsch is a comedian, writer, and TV presenter who has been entertaining the nation for over 30 years. Almost always intentionally. The youngest of four children, she was raised in Leatherhead, Surrey, where she discovered an early passion for theatre. Later at Cambridge University, she met Sue Perkins through footlights. It was platonic love at first sight. They formed a Duo and spent years performing at the Edinburgh Fringe, as well as touring the country and supporting themselves with odd jobs. Gedreutch was variously a barmaid, a telly sales agent, and a cleaner. Their big break came in 1996 when French and Saunders hired them as writers. From there, Mel and Sue went on to present the hit Channel 4 series Light Lunch and Late Lunch, and there
Then in 2009, fronted the great British Bacoff, shaping the show with their trademark kindness and humor. They stepped down from Bacoff in 2016, leaving them free to pursue independent careers. Since then, Gedreutch has written a Sunday Times best-selling novel and fronts the podcast Where There's a Will, There's a Wake. Now she returns with a new novel, The Cut. Comeback, a funny, big-hearted book about second chances set in a community theatre. My whole career, she says, has been random and quite surreal. She got away with it. That's what'll be on my gravestone. Mel Gedroyd, welcome to How to Fail. Hello. Welcome back, I should say, because it's the second time in this chair. It's so nice to be back. It's so lovely to have you back, and this time it is all about you because the first time was for a round table, but now the focus is on Mel.
Can you see me? Because I'm very well camouflaged in the pink.
I can just about see you it's like one of those nineties pixel drawings where I have to focus my eyes carefully and then you pop out because you have very kindly dressed in our brand colours today. So thank you. Always very professional. Now that idea of having got away with it, you don't really think that, do you?
Yes, said And no. Mm-hmm. I would say, I mean, Sue and my career together is about our friendship. We were never manufactured and put together by a manager. We were mates at university. So everything that we've done together, the the kind of the core of it, the DNA of it, is about us being friends.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is Mel Giedroyc’s early career story and how did she ‘get away with’ it?
0:00–12:26
2
How did Mel experience the Great British Bake Off and what did it change for her?
12:26–23:06
3
What challenges did Mel face after leaving Bake Off and how did she reinvent herself?
23:06–36:09
4
What is ‘The Comeback’ novel about and why does it matter to Mel?
36:09–46:20
5
How did Mel’s family roots, theatre upbringing and Cambridge degree shape her life?
46:20–54:43
6
What happened when Mel missed her mum’s deathbed and how did she cope with the loss?
54:43–58:20