Must love coffee! - MEL’S CAFE CULTURE CLUB

The beloved broadcaster combines her love of caffeine with celebrity chats

- Wendyl Nissen

When it comes to cafés, broadcaster Mel Homer is a big fan – and is quite at home in them when she has to work.

But her obsession with cosy places where you can enjoy a coffee is more about the fact that her name has been associated with shows called The Café for many years.

She hosted Three’s lifestyle TV show The Café for four years until it sadly ended during the pandemic lockdowns and now she hosts another show called Sunday Cafe for Today FM.

“To be honest, when we started talking about the new show, it wasn’t my idea to do it in a café,” laughs Mel. “I couldn’t see how it would work doing long-form interviews with four people and the noise of the café going on at the same time.

“But with the microphones and headphones we found that the background noise wasn’t too bad, and was actually quite pleasant and comforting.”

One guest she didn’t get to meet over a cuppa, however, was the hugely popular Graham Norton, who featured on the show recently.

Mel has interviewed many high-profile celebrities, but it would be fair to say getting an interview with the popular Irish TV-show host and shareholder in Kiwi wine company Invivo is not easy.