Mel Giedroyc reveals ‘very drunken’ snog with Dermot O’Leary, admitting ‘we were very flirty’
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.
