Melanie Sykes Biography
Melanie Sykes is a television and radio presenter from England. She is best known for co-hosting Today with Des and Mel and Let’s Do Lunch with Gino D’Acampo with Des O’Connor. She also co-hosted Going Out with Alan Carr on BBC Radio 2 with Alan Carr from May 2010 to March 2012, and she returned with him in 2017 for Alan and Mel’s Summer Escape. Sykes currently co-hosts Shop Well For Less on BBC One with Joanna Page.
How old is Melanie Sykes? – Age
She is 52 years 7 August 2022. She was born in 1970 in Ashton-under-Lyne, United Kingdom. Her real name is Melanie Ann Sykes.
Melanie Sykes Family
Sykes was born to an Anglo-Indian mother who was a Catholic and an English father. Along with her mother, father, and two sisters, Sykes played the baritone horn in the Ashtonian Brass Band. She attended Mossley Hollins High School and Ashton Sixth Form College, where she pursued her A-level studies in religion.
Melanie Sykes Husband
In January 2001, Sykes wed actor Daniel Caltagirone. Roman, born in 2002, and Valentino, born in 2004, are the couple’s two sons. According to a report from July 2008, the couple had split up, with Sykes saying she and Caltagirone had “grown apart” and the latter having left their Hampstead, London, home. In June 2009, they got divorced. On May 18, 2013, Sykes tied the knot with Jack Cockings at Sherborne Castle in Dorset.
Melanie Sykes BBC Radio 2 – Radio
Sykes hosted The A List, a national radio chart show based on total sales produced by Unique the Production Company at the Heart 106.2 studios in London. She left the show near the end of 2006, and Gail Porter took her place.
On the 22nd, 23rd, and 24th of December 2008, Sykes was heard on BBC Radio 2 with Aled Jones filling in for Steve Wright in the Afternoon. Following Emma Forbes’ resignation, she began co-hosting the BBC Radio 2 show Going Out with Alan Carr in May 2010. Sykes remained on the show until its conclusion in March 2012. She returned to BBC Radio 2 on Boxing Day 2015 with Alan Carr for a one-off show.
She and Carr returned to Radio 2 in January/February 2017 to fill in for Paul O’Grady for four weeks. During the summer of 2017, Sykes and Carr hosted their own Saturday morning show on BBC Radio 2 called Alan and Mel’s Summer Escape. In 2017, she co-hosted a show on BBC Radio 2 with Carr on Christmas Eve and another on New Year’s Eve. Sykes and Carr returned for more Easter specials, the Royal Wedding, and additional runs of Alan and Mel’s Summer Escape in 2018, 2019, and 2020. Sykes had her own radio show on Capital FM for a while.
Melanie Sykes Autism
Sykes received an autism diagnosis in November 2021, which she claimed helped her gain a “deeper understanding of myself, my life, and the things I have endured.” Tino, her younger son, was also identified as having autism when he was three years old.
Melanie Sykes Arrest
Sykes was detained and given a warning by police in November 2013 for allegedly assaulting Cockings. After the warning and less than a year of marriage, Sykes started the divorce filing process soon after. Sykes has since advocated for better treatment of women experiencing domestic violence, including from partners who falsely accuse their victims of assault in order to hurt them legally and financially. The caution was later revoked and erased from police records. She claims that the police handled her case poorly and deceived her into thinking that accepting a caution would be the easiest way to get her situation resolved.
Melanie Sykes Boddingtons
Sykes first gained widespread recognition as the spokesperson for Boddingtons Bitter advertisements in the middle of the 1990s.
Melanie Sykes Career
Midway through the 1990s, Sykes began his career as a TV host by serving as the host of Real TV UK on Sky One. After beginning her television career as a reporter for The Big Breakfast, Sykes went on to present on I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! and EastEnders Revealed. Sykes presented Melanie Sykes’ Southall Stories, a BBC Two documentary about Asian culture in the United Kingdom, in 1999. Additionally, she has presided over numerous award shows, such as Miss World, the BAFTA Awards, and the Q Awards.
Despite making a successful comeback as host of Today with Des and Mel with Des O’Connor in 2002, Sykes’ television career temporarily stagnated. On May 12, 2006, ITV made the painful but absolutely necessary decision to cancel a number of shows, including this one. Sykes has also hosted The Vault, Celebrities Under Pressure, and The British Soap Awards for ITV.
In October and November 2005, Sykes participated as a guest panelist on Loose Women. She later made a second appearance as a guest anchor in October 2008 and May 2009. From 2006 to 2009, Sykes frequently took over as The Paul O’Grady Show’s host when O’Grady was unable to do so. On eleven occasions, she served as the show’s host.
Sykes served as the host of the daytime BBC One program Gene Detectives. In 2008, Sykes served as a judge on the GMTV program “The Sofa Factor,” where viewers submitted brief videos and the winner received a trip to Las Vegas in addition to the opportunity to present TV Pick of the Day. Sykes made five guest appearances on Channel 4’s The 5 O’Clock Show with Denise van Outen in 2010.
Sykes made a comeback to daytime TV in August 2011 by co-hosting Let’s Do Lunch with Gino & Mel and Let’s Do Christmas with Gino & Mel on ITV with Gino D’Acampo. In 2014, the program was canceled.
Sykes and Paul Heiney co-hosted the three-part ITV series Missing Millions on September 13, 2011. Sykes joined BT Sport’s MotoGP team, it was announced in February 2014. She stopped watching the channel in May 2014 due to other work obligations. Sykes competed in the fourteenth season of I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! in 2014, coming in third place behind winner Carl Fogarty and runner-up Jake Quickenden.
Alongside Marco Pierre White, Sykes co-hosted the Watch cooking show Humble Pie in 2015. On April 4, 2017, it was announced that Sykes would be the new voice of Blind Date, replacing Graham Skidmore, who most notably played the part in the original series. The program airs on Channel 5 on Saturday nights. Sykes made an appearance on The Chase’s “celebrity” charity episode in 2017. She left early and didn’t advance to the next round.
Sykes won Star Baker in the Channel 4 competition The Great Stand Up to Cancer Bake Off in March 2018. Sykes and Joanna Page took over as the new hosts of the BBC One consumer program Shop Well for Less in 2021. It was revealed in August 2021 that Sykes would participate in BBC’s Celebrity MasterChef. She advanced to the semifinal round, where she took home the title of Star Chef on day four.
Melanie Sykes TV Show
♦ 2021–present – Shop Well For Less
♦ 2021 – Shop Well For The Planet?
♦ 2020 – The Great Pottery Throw Down
♦ 2017–2019 – Blind Date
♦ 2015 – Humble Pie
♦ 2014 – I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!
♦ 2012–2014 – Let’s Do Christmas with Gino & Mel
♦ 2011–2014 – Let’s Do Lunch with Gino & Mel
♦ 2011 – Missing Millions
♦ 2010 – The 5 O’Clock Show
♦ 2007 – Gene Detectives
♦ 2006–2009 – The Paul O’Grady Show
♦ 2005–2013 – Loose Women
♦ 2003–2004 – Celebrities Under Pressure
♦ 2003–2004 – The Vault
♦ 2003 – The British Soap Awards
