Last One Laughing's Mel Giedroyc recalls fire chaos in The Vatican
Last One Laughing star Mel Giedroyc and her pal attended an Easter service in The Vatican when the TV presenter was aged 19.
Mel Giedroyc was left in hysterics after her pal set a woman's hair on fire in The Vatican.
The teenage pair jumped on the lady to extinguish the flames after TV presenter Mel's friend knocked her candle into the lady's locks during an Easter Service.
Asked by the Radio Times the most inappropriate place Mel, 57, has laughed, she revealed: "In The Vatican."
The star recalled: "I was with a friend at an Easter service when I was about 19, and we were holding candles. We were chatting, and her candle went into the lady's hair in front.
"We were throwing ourselves on her to put it out. There's a very specific smell, isn't there, of burning hair?"
The former Great British Bake Off host was quick to stress that "luckily she was fine", and added: "We were howling."
However, Mel cannot afford to crack a laugh in series two of Amazon Prime Video's Last One Laughing - which sees 10 comics battling it out not to giggle as they spend time together in a house, with those failing being evicted.
And she joked about having had a "very cheap jowl lift" because of how hard it was to refrain from cackling.
Revealing her tactic, Mel said: "I used the power of my gurn. I idolised Les Dawson as a child, and no one has ever gurned like Les.
"It involves a lower jaw often coming up above the upper jaw. I had to employ every muscle and every sinew of my face and body, and use the muscles on the side of my neck.
"I've given myself a very cheap jowl lift. I won't be going to see the Botox lady, unlike Jimmy Carr."
And Mel thinks her TV sidekick Sue Perkins should sign up for a future series of Last One Laughing - hosted by comics Jimmy Carr, 53, and 46-year-old Roisin Conaty.
Mel said of Sue: "She would win. She would absolutely slaughter me. I don't think I've ever laughed with anyone else the way I've laughed with her.
"It's tears springing forth, usually at shared memories of things, or it's just a word, and we know exactly what it is and the story."
However, Mel feared that Sue, 56, was going to make a shock appearance on the show.
Mel continued: "I'm glad she was nowhere near the room. I did wonder, though, because they like to play those little pranks, 'What if I open the shower and she's in there?'"
Last One Laughing series two stars Mel, as well as season one champion Bob Mortimer, 66, David Mitchell, 51, Diane Morgan, 50, and 47-year-old Romesh Ranganathan.
Amy Gledhill, 38, Maisie Adam, 32, Alan Carr, 49, Gbemisola Ikumelo, 39, and Sam Campbell, 34, complete the line-up.
The new series of Last One Laughing launches on March 19.
