Melanie Briggs Kidd

Melanie Briggs Kidd was also born and raised in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. She and Craig were born in the same hospital 4 years apart. Destiny … At the age of 16 she studied catering at Huddersfield Technical College.
Her first job was with a government pilot program for the unemployed, where she worked in several industrial kitchens. It was a way of keeping young people off benefits in a time when unemployment was very high. At the end of the year-long placement, she was employed in one of the kitchens. She also worked in a snooker club [for Americans, Snooker is similar to pool], at a riding school, in exchange for free riding lessons and a pub and a restaurant in the evenings to make ends meet. Her last job was in a farm shop. She has not worked since she was 31, although she now helps Craig with his social media book marketing and winemaking.
Melanie enjoys reading and cooking, and she is Craig's biggest backgammon and scrabble opponent.