Sue Perkins claims she was ‘touched up' by Orville the Duck in bizarre assault as puppeteer got ‘handsy'
Her best friend Mel Giedroyc, 57, has revealed how ventriloquist
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Sue Perkins was 'touched' by Orville the Duck star Keith Harris
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Her best pal and co-star Mel made the claim that it had occurred during their time on Light Lunch in the 90s
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Keith Harris with Orville The Duck
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The duo were co-hosting the programme when the incident happened in 1997 after the children's entertainer was invited on with his giant green 'duckling' in a nappy.
Talking on the Parenting Hell podcast, Mel said: 'We're back in the Naughty nineties - woof! Weren't they naughty - they were a very naughty decade.
'The most memorable of all the lunches, we had three puppeteers with their puppets for lunch. We had Keith Harris with Orville, who got a bit naughty with Sue! Well, Orville did.'
'Yes. Harris via Orville got a bit 'Naughty Nineties.''
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Podcast co-host Rob Beckett said: 'He was nipping at the body?'
Mel replied: 'Yes. There is a ruddy hand (in there)!'
Co-host Josh Widdecombe added: 'They'd get away with it by claiming it was a grey area.'
Mel replied: 'Exactly!'
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Rob added: 'It's not a grey area, it's a hand in a beak, get off my t*t!'
She also revealed how Keith, who died in 2015 aged 67, and the two fellow guests, Roger de Courcey with Nookie Bear and Matthew Corbett with Sooty, all seemed captivated by Sue, who was just 27 at the time.
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Mel said: 'They were trying to get all over Perks's grill, she was the honey trap, I was just the fly buzzing round the edge rather desperately.
'They bloomin' loved Perks, all of them.'
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After the show ended in 1999, Mel and Sue went on to host the Great British Bake Off for seven years, when it was one of Britain's biggest TV shows. But she insisted they also had happy memories of doing Light Lunch.
Mel confirmed she snogged the runner on the programme, a then unknown Dermot O'Leary in one of his first TV
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She added: 'There was a lot going down - it should have been called Heavy Lunch.'
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Mel and Sue have been a TV duo since the 90s
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Keith and Orville were guests on Light Lunch
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