People are used to seeing me with Sue but for Sue and me, the most important thing is always going to be our friendship. We were mates at university – very close mates – long before we did any telly. The work is like a nice little cherry on the cake. Mel Giedroyc Read Quote
The Gift’ doesn’t deal with the neat, tie-me-up-with-a-bow kind of stories – they are grittier, messier, and not all of them have a happy resolution. You are following people and events that are more difficult, more elusive, and therefore harder to pin down. Mel Giedroyc Read Quote
It was very hard not to get utterly and wholeheartedly drawn into the stories on ‘The Gift.’ Mel Giedroyc Read Quote
The strength of ‘The Gift’ is that the people featured and their stories are given the space to speak for themselves. Mel Giedroyc Read Quote
I don’t like it when people leave their takeaways on the street: it makes me sad and it draws foxes and rats. Mel Giedroyc Read Quote