SHE may have been married for over two decades, but Mel Giedroyc says she had quite the wild single life before settling down.
And she even had a drunken snog with telly colleague Dermot O’Leary, the presenter, 58, has hilariously recalled.
Mel admits she and 53-year-old Dermot – who is now married to producer Dee Koppang – used to have a ‘flirty relationship’.
“Dermot O’Leary and I once had a little snogette,” she divulged to woman&home during an interview for their upcoming October issue.
The comedian continued: “He was our warm-up guy on Light Lunch back in 1997. It was a live show and he basically used to charm the audience.
“We used to flirt quite a bit, then there was a very drunken
end-of-series party.
“Nothing untoward happened – it was just snoggery. God bless him, Dermot’s a bit younger than me, so that pair of sliding doors was never going to open!”
Mel continued that she had a ‘really fun’ reunion with Dermot last summer when the whole Light Lunch cast came back together – almost three decades after the Channel 4 show ended.
While he’s a household name now, Dermot began as a TV runner and researcher on shows like Channel 4’s Light Lunch before appearing on Big Brother‘s Little Brother, and eventually catching his big break with The X Factor.
Mel, on the other hand, rose to fame with her comedy partner Sue – with the pair going on to host several shows as a duo.
The comedian and presenter is married to Ben Morris, a television director and teacher at the world-leading drama school LAMDA.
They tied the knot in 2002 after meeting at a dinner party two years prior.
Mel’s interview comes as she is promoting her new fiction Novel, The Comeback.
The October issue of woman&home is on sale 27th August 2026, while Mel’s book, The Comeback, is out this week.