Melanie Sykes

She is mostly known for co-hosting the “Today with Des and Mei” along with Des O’Connor, “Let’s Do Lunch” and Let’s Do Christmas with Gino & Mei” together with Gino D’Acampo. She is the native of Ashton-under-Lyne. As a child, she was named as Melanie Ann Sykes.

Melanie is the daughter of Anglo-Burmese and Anglo-Indian mother named Wendy. She went to Mossley Hollins High School and from there she completed her schooling. She then went on to attend the Ashton Sixth Form College from where she studied A-Level Religious Studies. In addition to that, she was also the member of the Ashtonian Brass Band together with her family, father, mother and her two sisters where she used to play baritone horn.

. Melanie first came to limelight as a bikini-clad girl in Boddington’s beer advertisements with a broad Northern accent in mid of the 1990s. Besides that, she has also done modeling for Berlin Lingerie. In 1997, she co-presented The Big Breakfast. Since then, she has continued her career in the television industry. BT Sport announced in February of 2014 that, Melanie would be the part of their MotoGP team.

The same year, she also participated in the show “I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here1 on its fourteenth series. Besides that, her other television credits include Melanie Sykes’s Southall Stories, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, The British Soap Awards, Celebrities Under Pressure, The Vault, Loose Women, Gene Detectives, The One Show, Hell’s Kitchen, Missing Millions, This Morning and many more.

Melanie is a married woman and has divorced once. Sheis now married to her boyfriend named Jack Cockings with whom she got married on 18th May of 2013 at the Sherborne Castle in Dorset. Previous to that, she was married to Daniel Caltagirone who is an actor. She married with him in January of the year 2001.

It was reported in July of 2008 that Melanie and Daniel had already separated with Melanie having grown apart for the Caltagirone who moved out of their home in Hampstead, London. She has two children with Daniel. Her first child named Roman was born in 2002 and a second child named Valentino Luca was born on 21st July 2004. Her total net worth is of approximately $5 million dollars.

Melanie is now at the age of 44 but she still looks young and hot. She stands tall at the height of five feet and nine inches. In addition to that, Melanie was the face of Head & Shoulder Shampoo in Britain and appeared in the print as well as television advertising and high street chain Matalan.

Additionally, she also has own line of the underwear and the lingerie with high street chain as well as retailer Debenhams. 

She can be followed on her Twitter and Instagram.