Mel is a warm, witty, fun awards host and presenter, who has recently ‘swapped the vol-au-vents for vocals’ as co-host of BBC1’s Let it Shine alongside Graham Norton.

Mel went to Cambridge University, where she first met Sue Perkins. They performed at the Edinburgh festival as Mel & Sue in 1993 and famously hosted Channel 4’s Light Lunch in the late 90s.

The pair went on to co-present BBC2’s The Great British Bake-Off, the hugely popular show reached viewing figures of 14.8Million when last aired on the BBC.