Former Great British Bake Off presenter Mel Giedroyc has suffered a heartbreaking loss.
The TV star's beloved mum Rosemary Giedroyc has died aged 86. Her death comes six years after the passing of her husband and Mel's father, Michal Giedroyc. Mel is said to be "devastated" by her mum's death and has yet to comment about the sad news publicly. The presenter and comedian grew up in Leatherhead, Surrey, along with her three siblings.
Mel, 55, is sister to Coky, a film and TV director, Kasia, a children's writer and Miko, a musician. The Giedroyc family moved to Oxford when Mel was 11-years-old. Rosemary passed away "peacefully" in Oxford on Sunday, according to The Times. Mel's dad Michal was an aircraft designer, civil engineer and family historian.
He was sent to a labour camp in Siberia by the invading Soviet army in 1939. Mel previously shared how her parents met as she told The Guardian: "My father met my mother, Rosemary, through her mother, a children’s book illustrator called Astrid who had formed a strong friendship with a Polish artist who knew my other grandmother from the old days in Poland.
Mel's mum died 'peacefully' over the weekend (Jeff Spicer/Getty Images)
The presenter is said to be 'devastated' (Dave J Hogan/Getty Images)"Astrid hoped my father might get together with one of her elder daughters but, as soon as he saw Rosemary at one of Astrid’s parties, he was smitten. Nothing happened for three years until she was 19." Mel took care of her mum after she suffered a series of strokes over 30 years ago.
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"I spent a year reading to her – her eyesight was badly affected – and making sure she got proper rest," Mel said. "It was a special time but very intense, too." In 2002 Mel married her sweetheart Ben Morris, who is a television director and teacher at LAMDA. The pair first met at a dinner party in 2000. "I couldn't do my job without Ben, we do pretty much half and half," she once told the Press Association.
They share two daughters together, Florence and Vita. The star stunned fans by leaving the The Great British Bake Off in 2016 and admitting she thought the show would spark the end of her career. "I thought it would be career suicide," she said. "Sue and I spent the whole first series saying, 'this is a disaster. What have we done?'" In a previous interview, Mel explained that she worried that the premise of the show lacked entertainment value.
"I remember phoning Perks [Sue] saying, 'Don't worry, mate – no one's ever going to see this,'" she confessed to The Guardian. "Because we were really scared. There was a plethora of food shows on telly, so I just thought… 'Really?'" she said, after admitting she was the 'voice of doom' ahead of its premiere.
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