A Quote by Mel Giedroyc

My father describes himself as a Pole of Lithuanian descent. At Southampton University, he read aeronautical engineering and then the family moved to Hong Kong - this was before I was born - where he designed aeroplanes. Back in the U.K., he worked as a civil engineer, although every spare minute was spent researching his family's history.

Mel Giedroyc

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Mel Giedroyc
English - Entertainer
Born: June 5, 1968

I wanted to be an aeronautical engineer. But I didn't get a good rank, so I got civil engineering.

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