Overview
- Mel Giedroyc publicly disclosed the groping allegation on the Parenting Hell podcast in July 2025.
- She said that Keith Harris, operating his Orville the Duck puppet, placed a hand inside its beak to grope Sue Perkins during a 1997 Light Lunch episode.
- Neither Sue Perkins nor representatives of the late Keith Harris have issued statements on the claim.
- The revelation has prompted renewed scrutiny of the informal and boundary-pushing style of 1990s TV chat shows.
- After Light Lunch ended in 1999, Perkins and Giedroyc went on to present The Great British Bake Off from 2010 to 2016.