Mel Giedroyc

Melanie ("Mel") Clare Sophie Giedroyc (pronounced /ˈɡiːdrɔɪtʃ/ or /ˈɡjɛdrɔɪtʃ/; born 5 June 1968, Epsom, Surrey) is an English television presenter, actress, and writer. Giedroyc was born in Epsom in Surrey and grew up in Leatherhead. Her father, a history writer, is a Polish-Lithuanian who came to England in 1947. She is a Roman Catholic, and has Belgian, Polish, Lithuanian, and Belarusian ancestry. She attended the independent Oxford High Schoo... more

Melanie ("Mel") Clare Sophie Giedroyc (pronounced /ˈɡiːdrɔɪtʃ/ or /ˈɡjɛdrɔɪtʃ/; born 5 June 1968, Epsom, Surrey) is an English television presenter, actress, and writer. Giedroyc was born in Epsom in Surrey and grew up in Leatherhead. Her father, a history writer, is a Polish-Lithuanian who came to England in 1947. She is a Roman Catholic, and has Belgian, Polish, Lithuanian, and Belarusian ancestry. She attended the independent Oxford High School in Oxford and later attended Trinity College, Cambridge, where she took a degree in Modern Languages. The first record she ever bought was Son Of My Father by Chicory Tip, and her favourite animal is a guinea pig, of which she had one called Nigel. She is married to Ben Morris, an ex-Downside/Ampleforth boy now a TV director, with two children: Florence (born May 2002), and Vita (born February 2004). Her sister, Coky Giedroyc, is a TV director. Giedroyc is best known for presenting comedy items alongside Sue Perkins. The two met whilst... less