A biography for Mel Giedroychasn’t been written yet.
“My siblings and I have got the worst teeth in Britain.”
“I probably go to church two Sundays out of four.”
“There have been a lot of technical advances in the bra industry over the years, (such as those with Cellophane straps that are supposed to look as if you're not wearing them), but the maternity bra is still stuck in the 1940s.”
“I love performing in front of a live audience and just stepping out in front of ruddy Royal Albert Hall is just something, I can't describe it.”
“It's a blessing to be able to do different things really, I feel so lucky.”
“Maternity bras are the Alcatraz under-wear. If they were a door they'd have a mortise lock, a padlock and the rest.”
“I've spent my entire life spelling my surname.”
“I don't have a problem with the concept of a box set per se - we have many of them merrily lined up on the shelf above the telly. No, what gives me the pip is the fact that I'm never going to watch any of them.”
“I'm not a trained actor, so there was always going to be a certain amount of bringing my own... I was going to say skills but they're not really skills, it's just stuff that I know how to do I suppose.”
“I can't speak for every mum but once you have children, I find that I don't really get through the day without grinning about five times!”
“Noel Fielding is a friend of mine and I love what he does.”
“I know things can go pear-shaped.”
“It feels like you are in your own little bubble when you film 'Bake Off.' There is no noise, the outside world doesn't exist when we are filming. It's us, the tent and the bakers.”
“The world is such a blooming topsy-turvy, fragile, bleak place.”
“At Trinity College there was a coterie of the poshest of the posh, people you didn't ever see, they were so posh. They went to each other's rooms and, at weekends, each other's estates. I preferred to be with the weirdo bunch of raggle-taggle thesps.”
“I can hold a tune but it's a bit ropey.”
“It was very hard not to get utterly and wholeheartedly drawn into the stories on 'The Gift.'”
“I feel very warmly and joyfully towards BBC Children in Need.”
“Mum was in her early 50s when she had four strokes in quick succession that almost took her off. I'd just come down from Cambridge with a rubbish degree. I spent a year reading to her - her eyesight was badly affected - and making sure she got proper rest. It was a special time but very intense, too.”
“You can't hurry a loaf of bread. You have to wait for it to prove and rise.”