Let's Do Lunch...with Gino & Mel
24th June 2011
Real food, real people & lots of fun!
GINO D’ACAMPO and MELANIE SYKES and are set to serve up a lunch time menu of food, fun and entertainment in a new commission for ITV1 Daytime.
Transmitting daily throughout the month of August, Lunch with Gino & Mel will see the duo present a fast-paced, live lunch hour centred around having fun with food.
In front of a live studio audience, each day Gino & Mel will welcome two celebrities to their kitchen. Gino will cook up a significant dish of their choice; maybe a pudding they ate whilst their partner proposed or a meal that reminds them of their mum. While Gino does the cooking, Mel and the celebrity will help him whilst chatting about their lives, loves & latest projects.
The studio audience have a huge role to play in the lunch hour festivities – which could be anything from being picked to cook alongside Gino to revealing embarrassing cookery stories from their past. Plus Gino will solve culinary dilemmas from “how do I make my Yorkshire puddings rise?” to “why is my mash always lumpy?”
Lunch with Gino & Mel promises to make your lunch hour the perfect place to kick back and be entertained.
Mel said: “It's fabulous to be back on ITV with a lunchtime show again - I know Gino and I are going to have an absolute blast - bring on the summer!”
Gino said: “I'm really looking forward to working with Mel and we're going to make sure that everybody – the guests, the studio audience and the viewers - has an amazing time. It's going to be fantastico!”
ITV Commissioning Editor, Daytime and Factual, Katy Thorogood said: “We’re delighted to have Gino and Mel in the ITV Daytime schedule cooking up a storm very day. Its going to be fun - kick off your shoes and enjoy.”
Executive Producer at ITV Studios Sharon Powers said: “I am very excited about working with Gino & Mel – I think they’re both fantastic and am confident they’ll bring lots of experience, personality and energy to the ITV daytime schedule.”
Let's Do Lunch...with Gino & Mel is an ITV Studios Production for ITV1. It was commissioned by Director of Factual and Daytime, Alison Sharman and Commissioning Editor for Factual and Daytime, Katy Thorogood. The Executive Producer for ITV Studios is Sharon Powers.