Carol Vorderman
Carol Vorderman
Carol Jean Vorderman MBE RAFVRis a British media personality, best known for co-hosting the popular game show Countdown for 26 years from 1982 until 2008...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionGame Show Host
Date of Birth24 December 1960
poor backgrounds harder
If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are.
children instant bounds
Once you have children it's love without bounds. You would die for them in an instant, without question. How can you better that?
tired giving biscuits
When I get tired, I start eating things that I wouldn't normally crave, like biscuits, because they'll give me a bit of energy to keep going.
kids commitment whales
My commitment is to my kids and my mum and I'm having a whale of a time.
father years three
My father was having an affair with a 16-year-old when Mum was pregnant with me. She found out when I was three weeks old and left, not surprisingly.
baby firsts rebound
My first marriage was totally unsuitable and shouldn't have happened. It was a whirlwind, rebound thing. I was 23 or 24 - a baby.
sunday vegetables smell
One day Mum saved up for this exciting new thing - a frozen chicken. She cooked it on the Sunday and we all sat around waiting for it, but there was a terrible smell from the kitchen. She didn't realise that the giblets were in a plastic bag inside it. We just ate vegetables and she cried and cried.
running real kids
The photoshoot glitz and TV studio make-up isn't the real me. I spend most days at home in Bristol in jeans and a T-shirt running around after the kids or shopping in the Co-op.
war men bombers
More than 55,000 men from Bomber Command lost their lives, of whom 38,000 were British. That's one in 10 of all the British servicemen lost in the Second World War. It beggars belief that there has not been some recognition for what they gave until now.
regret divorce thinking
The divorce is a regret of mine and my mum thinks that we should have stayed together. He's now remarried so there's no chance of us getting back together.
laughing eccentric incredibles
I've never once heard my mum shout and she's 83 now. She's incredible. She's very, very happy, slightly eccentric but loves laughing, which I do too.
children my-children
I'm very pleased how my children have turned out.
brother father years
There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He was happy to see my brother and sister, but not me. I don't know why. Maybe it was shame. I don't know. But he never wanted anything to do with me. That rejection was terribly hurtful and it went on for years.
ideas people wrong-ideas
Most people have the wrong idea about me because I've been very private.