About Melinda 
SWINDON'S favourite model, mum and TV presenter Melinda Messenger has had a fantastic career since she first found fame on a poster for a double glazing firm.
Here you can read past and present news stories from the Advertisers as we chart Melinda's rise to star status.
Before modelling Melinda worked as a stewardess for Britannia
Airlines. In 1996 she underwent a £3,000 breast enlargement
increasing her bra size from a C to DD cup and this had
a big affect on her career.
She modelled in a poster campaign for Glevum windows
- a local double glazing firm - wearing only underwear
with the slogan "Class Behind Glass". The posters became
hot property in Wiltshire and kept disappearing from
bus shelters. After several complaints the posters were
banned.
However, the story was picked up by the
Daily Star who booked Melinda for a photo session and she featured in a centre spread in Tuesday, January 28, 1997. The same
day she was signed up by agent Yvonne Paul, who's previous clients included models such as Sam Fox.It was a busy day
- the Sun also contacted her and photographed her for
Wednesday's front page.
More promotional work flooded in and this was soon followed
by an appearance on Channel 4's Eurotrash as a roving
reporter - the beginning of her TV career. Soon after
she became a regular presenter on Sky's 'Live Six' show
and since then she hasn't looked back.
After presenting
the Channel 5 Jack Doherty show she was given a chat
show of her own called Melinda's Big Night In.
Melinda became a regular host for the UK version of
Fort Boyard, an adventure game show co-hosted by Leslie
Grantham (former Dirty Den from Eastenders) and Geoffrey
Bayldon (from the 70s show Catweazel). The show was
set on a remote Napoleonic fortress off the coast of
North West France called Fort Boyard.
In October 2000 Melinda Messenger hosted a show for
parents and parents-to-be for Carlton TV called Baby
Baby, where she chatted to partners about their thoughts
on fatherhood and how they prepared for the birth of
their children.
Mel is married to the love of her life Wayne Roberts
and the couple have two boys, Morgan and Flynn Jefferson, plus a daughter called Evie.
Sadly, Fort Boyard was eventually axed two weeks after
the birth of Flynn in March 2002.
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