Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable

Mel Giedroyc and Lou Sanders - Series 2 interview

Mel Giedroyc and Lou Sanders talk about returning for Series 2 of the panel show which sees guests revealing secrets and sins.

Mel Giedroyc

Welcome back, Mel. How excited are you to be back on Dave?

Oh my gosh, Dave for me is like my escape into the pesky, the edgy and the slightly naughty world. Dave for me is like, kind of not being a responsible adult and parent. It's like, right now we can have some real blooming fun. I might well have a tattoo before the next series, that's all I'm saying.

What can we expect from series 2 of Unforgivable?

Well, listen I am absolutely blooming delighted to say that the guest roster for Series 2 is as good as Series 1. We had some amazing guests for Series 1, as you know, and I just sort of thought to myself 'it can't get better, can it?'. We had Graham Norton, and people of that amazing ilk. We had Jennifer Saunders, didn't we; Claire Balding!

Anyways, we've got, just for starters... Keith Lemon, Bill Bailey, David Haye, Sara Cox, Sarah Millican, Katherine Ryan, Rosie Jones, Scarlett Moffatt, Alan Davies, Sally Phillips, Lorraine Kelly and Jack Dee.

I don't want to sound smug or anything, but I am absolutely over the moon. I am delighted and excited because I think often what happens with shows like this, you know, entertainment is quite a small world, everyone knows everyone else, everyone hears about everyone else. You often know people who are working on different shows, and they collide and cross reference with each other and so it's very important for a show like this that guests go away and tell other people that they've had fun and I think that's what's happened, which is why we've got these amazing people.

We also have an amazing booking team on our show. We have an amazing team full stop, who I adore with every bone in my body and coming together to make the show is like a rampant, very noisy, lively family get together with old Nanna Giedroyc on the sherry. Lou Sanders being quite edgy and cool on her roller-skates, anything can happen. That's Dave!

Talking of Lou, how has she been behaving as your sinful sidekick?

I'm happy to report that she is behaving even worse than she was on Series 1. If you thought that she was filthy before, oh my days, wait my friends for Series 2! She has embedded herself in the role of being Lou Sanders on Unforgivable, in... I mean to say duck to water makes it sound too clean and sweet and little house on the prairie of an image. She's taken to it like the muckiest duck to the most sewage ridden of water, and of that I'm very, very proud.

How much do you love the wrong gong?

Oh my days, I want the wrong gong to be bigger. We had a piffling little wrong gong, like something you might get out of a Christmas cracker in Series 1 and I did say to them, and you know I'm not known for being a diva, I hope. But I did have words, I said 'Series 2 my darlings, we have to reflect the growing of the show with the growing of the gong'. So, we had a bigger gong. I have to say only slightly though. I measured.

What I'd like to see if we go forwards with the show, fingers crossed, is a massive, you know Rank, the old films Rank, and that Gongman guy, quite a hot guy actually, let's just clear that up there, whose stripped naked to the waist and he does the big 'gong!' I'm talking one of those, that's the level of wrongness that we want to get to with the gong.

Finally, what is the most Unforgivable thing that you've done recently?

Oh my days, I stole a pair of trousers from my daughters wardrobe when she went off to university. When she came back the first thing she said, was 'Mum, where are my blue cords?'. They're her beloved cords, she got them in a kilo sale or something trendy. I've been wearing them solidly, in fact I've got them on now, she's not here actually, she's out at work.

I said I gave them to a charity shop. They are the most comfortable, you know when you find a pair of really comfortable trousers and they're the sort of trousers where people go 'oh god, you've lost weight!' I haven't, but the trousers make me look as if I have, for some reason, it's the style or shape of them or whatever. They're just some bloody old, blue replay cords. She is never gonna get her mits on them again, ever, ever... they are mine.

Lou Sanders

Welcome back for the second series of Unforgivable, Lou. How excited are you to be back on Dave?

Wowww! I will voice that in a noise, and that noise is 'Wow!' I think its spelt Waaaaahw and lots of exclamation marks.

Are you misbehaving even more as the sinful sidekick?

Hmmm, no. I am misbehaving just the right amount. I am letting the guests shine. This series I've run out of stories because maybe I've gone over to the other side. So, I'm just letting the guests come forward with their muck.

What guests have we got dishing their dirty stories?

Oooo, don't you know...? Well, Keith Lemon who is a lot of fun. Rosie Jones, she was great. Lorraine was brilliant! Katherine Ryan, she was great, she had her newborn week old baby on her lap. Sarah Millican was lovely, yeah, some great people. Oh, Jessica Knappett, she was brilliant, her stories were great. And Jack Dee, I loved Jack Dee's stories as well.

Was there anyone that surprised you? Did Lorraine Kelly surprise you?

Lorraine Kelly didn't surprise me because she is cheeky, she is the face of broadcasting, but she is cheeky. A lot of men fancy Lorraine and I think I said this on the show, because they can see she's got a very cheeky side. Presentable but underneath, smut.

Is it true that we get to see you on roller-skates?

The rumours are true. And that was the only one time I was a diva on set, accidentally. I really felt bad about that but the ramp was smaller than I anticipated!

Are there other things that you do within the show to replace the drone?

Oh now... I think people are going to be very happy with the props, the props department absolutely expended themselves. Those props guys, those guys are so good. Every time we brought on props, we brought them on in a different creative way and it was so much fun. It was so much fun brainstorming them and then Expectation [the production company] just let us do what we wanted and bring all these things to life, and I've never had more fun, it was so joyful to do, I was really grateful.

There was a dog wasn't there?

There was a props dog, yeah. That dog did not know what it was doing, it was a highly trained, expensive dog and it was just doing exactly what it wanted. A lot of shitting on the stage, that dog really just did what it wanted.

Finally, what is the most unforgivable thing that you have done recently?

I started Omicrom, not really... No I'm being so cute at the moment, yeah I'm just being really cute to everyone to cheer them up.