Mel Giedroyc says there will ‘always be a flicker of chemistry’ with Dermot O’Leary: ‘He’s still got it’
Mel Giedroyc has stated there will at all times be “a flicker of chemistry” between her and fellow TV star Dermot O’Leary.
The pair first met when O’Leary began working as a runner on Channel 4’s Nineties daytime comedy present Gentle Lunch, which was hosted by Giedroyc and her longtime presenting associate, Sue Perkins.
Final 12 months, O’Leary, who has since change into a family title because the host of ITV’s actuality competitors collection The X Issue, recalled a drunken encounter with Giedroyc throughout one of their notoriously “raucous” and “debauched” wrap events.
Showing as a visitor on her Dave present Unforgiveable, he defined the wrap events had been famously used as excuses for solid and crew to let off any sexual rigidity that had constructed off throughout filming: “Lengthy story quick: Everybody snogs everybody else… I find yourself snogging the expertise,” he recalled.
“There are guidelines in TV, and one is, you don’t snog the expertise!”
Nearly 30 years later, Giedroyc apparently still remembers the second nicely.
“There will at all times be a flicker of chemistry between me and Dermot O’Leary,” the 55-year-old informed the Observer in a Q&A on Sunday 27 August. “Possibly not from his facet, however actually from mine. We had a temporary encounter at a wrap celebration many a long time in the past.
“I ran into him the opposite day in an ITV hall. What can I say? He’s still got it.”
Mel Giedroyc recalled an encounter with Dermot O’Leary at a wrap celebration again within the Nineties
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In the identical interview, Giedroyc, who’s married to TV director Ben Morris, admitted that she and Perkins had been satisfied The Nice British Bake Off would be “profession suicide” when it first launched on the BBC in 2010.
“Sue [Perkins] and I spent the entire first collection saying, ‘That is a catastrophe. What have we carried out?’” she stated.
She additionally recalled the time she and Perkins stole Bake Off choose Paul Hollywood’s automotive: “We teased him a lot and one lunchtime drove his (borrowed) automotive down the driveway and into a little copse.
“Paul nearly saved it collectively, however his barely twitching jaw betrayed his true emotions,” she stated. “He laughed once we got here clear however hugged us a little too tightly. Sorry Paul.”
Giedroyc and Perkins, alongside with choose Mary Berry, stepped down from their roles on Bake Off in 2016 after the programme, made by Love Productions, was poached from the BBC by Channel 4.
Giedroyc is internet hosting new ITV collection Britain by the Ebook with Martin Clunes from 6 September.
