Sue reveals loss she felt when Mel got married
FOR a good part of their lives the two presenters have been inseparable both on and off screen.
Now Sue Perkins has spoken about the great loss she felt when her friend and co-star Mel Giedroyc got married.
Ms Perkins, 46, described their friendship as a ‘double helix’ and said that it was ‘so frightening’ to let go of Miss Giedroyc, who she met at Cambridge University in 1988.
‘Through all of our 20s and a good chunk of our 30s we were inseparable,’ she said.
‘You actually love each other and she met this amazing guy. There was this moment where you think “Oh”.
‘I felt a certain kind of loss when she got married and had a kid.’
Earlier this year, Miss Perkins, 46, revealed she is unable to have children of her own because a benign pituitary tumour has made her infertile.
However the TV presenter added that there was ‘no jealousy’ involved. ‘It is not “I want what you have”, it is not “I’m jealous”, it is the letting go and the profound love as you do it,’ she told actress Dawn French, with whom she was discussing her memoir Spectacles at London’s Royal Festival Hall on Sunday.
‘She had a child and it was at a time when I couldn’t. And I watched her and now she is an amazing mother with amazing kids and it is so frightening really.’
Mother-of-two Mel Giedroyc, 47,
‘It’s the profound love as you let go’
married television director Ben Morris 13 years ago.
She partnered with Miss Perkins for comedy sketches while still at university, and the pair have been the co-hosts of the Great British Bake Off since the hugely successful BBC show began in 2010.
‘You have to let the change happen,’ Ms Perkins added. ‘It has so many rewards.’
The star, who is in a relationship with documentary-maker Anna Richardson, said that she now loves Miss Giedroyc ‘in a different way’.
Miss Perkins said that it had been difficult for Mr Morris, who had to put up with her constantly visiting their home and squeezing into the couple’s wedding pictures.
The presenter joked: ‘It was very difficult for Mel’s husband because it was always like “Who is this weird saggy t**t who is permanently living in our house?” When they got married I was in all the pictures.
They still don’t have a picture of them two together. On the sides of their beds they have these pictures with me in both of them.’
Earlier this year the two long term friends presented their own daytime chat show called Mel and Sue on ITV.