Melanie Sykes Net Worth

Melanie Ann Sykes (born 7 August 1970) is an English television presenter and model, best known for co-hosting Today with Des and Mel alongside Des O'Connor and Let's Do Lunch alongside Gino D'Acampo.


Sykes was born to an Anglo-Burmese father and an Anglo-Indian mother. She attended Mossley Hollins High School and studied A-level Religious Studies at Ashton Sixth Form College. Melanie was a member of Ashtonian Brass Band along with her father, mother and two sisters, playing the baritone horn. She first came to public attention as the bikini-clad girl in the Boddington's beer advertisements with the broad "Northern" accent in the mid-1990s. Amongst other work during the decade, she also modelled for Berlei lingerie.
After first reporting for The Big Breakfast, she has continued her television career, including stints on I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! and as presenter of Eastenders Revealed.[citation needed] In 1999 Sykes presented Melanie Sykes' Southall Stories, a documentary for BBC Two on Asian culture in Great Britain. She has also hosted a variety of awards ceremonies, including Miss World, the BAFTA Awards and the Q Awards.
Her television career stalled for a period, although she made a successful comeback as host of Today with Des and Mel (with Des O'Connor) in 2003. On 12 May 2006 ITV announced that the show would be one of a number to be axed in a "painful, but utterly necessary" move.
Her other work for the ITV network has included hosting the primetime shows The Vault, Celebrities Under Pressure, National Television Awards Party of the Year, and the British Soap Awards.
She appeared as a guest panellist on the ITV daytime chat show Loose Women in October and November 2005 and later returned as a guest anchor in October 2008 and May 2009.
Sykes presented The A List, a national radio chart show based on total sales, produced by Unique the Production Company at the studios of London's Heart 106.2. She left the show towards th