Mel Giedroyc

I wish I could play electric guitar.

— Mel Giedroyc

I'm very competitive about puns.

— Mel Giedroyc

I love a bit of Saturday-night TV.

— Mel Giedroyc

I know things can go pear-shaped.

— Mel Giedroyc

Hate showers, they're weird.

— Mel Giedroyc

I'm always ludicrously early/on time.

— Mel Giedroyc

Family is everything to me.

— Mel Giedroyc

I can hold a tune but it's a bit ropey.

— Mel Giedroyc

Noel Fielding is a friend of mine and I love what he does.

— Mel Giedroyc

I love them all, there is not one member of Take That that I do not love.

— Mel Giedroyc

I bloody love transport and plotting a route through London.

— Mel Giedroyc

Nobody likes a presenter melting in a self-indulgent puddle of tears.

— Mel Giedroyc

I feel very warmly and joyfully towards BBC Children in Need.

— Mel Giedroyc

We human beings are very dark, strange things.

— Mel Giedroyc

The Bake Off' can get emotional, but 'The Gift' is a whole different league!

— Mel Giedroyc

My siblings and I have got the worst teeth in Britain.

— Mel Giedroyc

I would not describe myself as the best Catholic - I'm a bit of a cherry-picker. I like the community of it.

— Mel Giedroyc

Every year the British public are so generous. It is really moving living in Britain. Fundraising is something we do tremendously well.

— Mel Giedroyc

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

— Mel Giedroyc

At school in the 1970s, no one cared about bullying. I spent the first four years being the apple of the teachers'…

— Mel Giedroyc

A bloke once yelled out: 'You've got chubby knees.' I was 19. I've had a real complex about my knees ever since.

— Mel Giedroyc

You can do a lot worse than spend an hour a week singing. We should prescribe choirs on the NHS for anxiety…

— Mel Giedroyc

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

— Mel Giedroyc

My daughters have become little judges. If I do produce a baked item, they tut at the soggy bottom and advise me…

— Mel Giedroyc

Of course there's pressure on you whatever timeslot you're doing, but I think there's more pressure on you as you go into…

— Mel Giedroyc

At Trinity College there was a coterie of the poshest of the posh, people you didn't ever see, they were so posh.…

— Mel Giedroyc

For me, Christmas was always about presents. As a child, we each had an allotted place in the sitting room for the…

— Mel Giedroyc

Only now that I'm a mum can I fully understand the terrible pressure parents feel buying presents for their kids. My mum…

— Mel Giedroyc

I had to go to an audition for a rather large West End musical set on a Greek island. I didn't realise…

— Mel Giedroyc

The older I get, as well, bloody hell - time's running out. I just feel, jeez, there's so much to do. I'm…

— Mel Giedroyc

My job with Sue on 'Bake Off' was to look after the bakers - and to be honest, a lot of that…

— Mel Giedroyc

We love live because of the roughness round the edges, the excitement, the madness, and stuff going off on all sorts of…

— Mel Giedroyc

I talked to friends who are actors and who do Shakespeare loads, and they all said 'learn it so that your family…

— Mel Giedroyc

My father describes himself as a Pole of Lithuanian descent. At Southampton University, he read aeronautical engineering and then the family moved…

— Mel Giedroyc

Friends before work.

— Mel Giedroyc

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

— Mel Giedroyc

Mum and Dad have both got very well-tuned senses of humour.

— Mel Giedroyc

Comedy can become quite addictive actually.

— Mel Giedroyc

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

— Mel Giedroyc

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

— Mel Giedroyc