Melinda Claire Buttle

Melinda Claire Buttle, known as Mel Buttle, is an Australian comedian, television and radio presenter and writer. She co-hosted The Great Australian Bake Off alongside Claire Hooper. In April 2013 she was awarded the Directors Choice Award at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival for her solo show How Embarrassment. She wrote on and starred in Network Ten's This Week Live as a live correspondent, and was a regular guest on Triple J, Nova and 612 ABC Brisbane.

Buttle was raised in Samford, a semi-rural suburb north-west of Brisbane, and completed her schooling as a boarder at St Margaret's Anglican Girls' School in Ascot, where she is listed as a Notable Alumna. She completed a Bachelor of Secondary Education (Drama) in 2003 at Griffith University and became a teacher, before moving to Perth in 2004 to complete a Post Graduate Diploma in Marketing at Curtin University. She began stand-up comedy in Perth before returning to Queensland in 2008 and representing the state at the Raw National Comedy Finals in Melbourne.

She made her Melbourne International Comedy Festival debut in 2010 with Sista Got Flow, for which she was nominated Best Newcomer, and in late 2012 opened for American comedian Aziz Ansari on his Buried Alive tour. On radio she ran weekly segments on Triple J's breakfast show, and in August 2020 joined ABC Local Radio to host Weekend Afternoons. In July 2015 she and Claire Hooper were announced as hosts of the second season of The Great Australian Bake Off alongside judges Matt Moran and Maggie Beer; the show ran for several seasons until she and the other hosts left in late 2022.