Chatting to Mel, 52, is like seeing family. If Ant & Dec are Britain’s naughty little brothers, Mel and Sue have become the nation’s big sisters.
Their warmth and relatability has been their appeal since they first appeared on our screens in 1997, in Channel 4’s Light Lunch.
Later they found blockbuster success fronting The Great British Bake Off for six years. They drew 16 million fans in with their silliness, camaraderie and pun-tastic jokes about cakes, which saw them described as ‘like giggling schoolgirls let loose at a posh village fête’.Mel and Sue have become such a televsion power couple that Mel is used to people asking: ‘Which one are you?’‘When two of my nephews were much younger, they called us both Melandsue,’ she laughs. ‘I.
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