Melanie Sykes
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== Biography == | == Biography == | ||
| - | British-Asian model | + | Born in Mossley in 1970, Melanie Sykes is a British-Asian model whose broad northern accent came to fame in a TV advert for Boddingtons beer. |
| - | She has gone on to a wide variety of presenting roles, | + | She has gone on to a wide variety of presenting roles, including a stint filling in for [[Denise Van Outen]] on [[The Big Breakfast]] and London travel magazine ''Dream Ticket''. Sykes is perhaps best known for a successful partnership with [[Des O'Connor]] on the ITV daytime chat show ''Today with Des and Mel'', which ran from 2002 until being axed in 2006. |
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[http://uk.imdb.com/name/nm0843082/ Internet Movie Database entry] | [http://uk.imdb.com/name/nm0843082/ Internet Movie Database entry] | ||
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| + | [http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/726524 BFI database link] | ||
[[Category:People|Sykes, Melanie]] | [[Category:People|Sykes, Melanie]] | ||
Revision as of 18:09, 14 July 2009
Biography
Born in Mossley in 1970, Melanie Sykes is a British-Asian model whose broad northern accent came to fame in a TV advert for Boddingtons beer.
She has gone on to a wide variety of presenting roles, including a stint filling in for Denise Van Outen on The Big Breakfast and London travel magazine Dream Ticket. Sykes is perhaps best known for a successful partnership with Des O'Connor on the ITV daytime chat show Today with Des and Mel, which ran from 2002 until being axed in 2006.
