“Women criticising women: that’s been my generation and that’s not ever been my nature,” she says. Vorderman feels more connected to Cameron’s generation than the one she grew up with. She’s on a health kick not quite following the detox diets she put her name to in the Noughties, but the fridge at the Bristol house she shares with her son, Cameron, is full of fruit, vegetables, chicken, mackerel and Greek yoghurt. It’s the first “proper food” she has eaten since yesterday, she tells me. That never existed earlier, ever.”Īn A3-sized veal Milanese has arrived in front of Carol. We have a society where you can go out and be independent. The reaction, she says, to her opening up about her casual relationships was nearly totally positive. Once best known as a TV stalwart, maths whizz and the only ever double winner of the long-retired Rear of the Year award (Did she get trophies? “One for each cheek”), over the past 12 months, the former Countdown co-host and Tomorrow’s World presenter has added “unofficial leader of the revolution” to her résumé. We’re experiencing something of a Vorderman renaissance, you see. It’s destroyed us.” It’s exactly this determination to fight for justice that’s landed the Welsh star in this year’s Vogue 25. Within minutes of the 62-year-old grabbing us a table in the chilly garden of London’s Home House members club, the conversation has swung from lighthearted fashion chatter (“Friends have said, ‘Have you seen this book on how to dress like a French woman?’ Sorry, it’s not going to happen”), to a call for political reform: “We cannot have this two party system. Carol Vorderman – presenter, writer, podcaster, entrepreneur and now dogged political campaigner – has arrived for lunch.Īnd what an arrival it is. Even before I’ve taken in the ice blonde curls, the doe eyes, those curves, I’m certain it’s her. Then the jumpsuit: denim, nautical, skintight, Karen Millen. In 2007 she launched a brain training game called Carol Vorderman’s Mind Aerobics together with BSkyB and also in the same year, released a video game for PlayStation 2 in the United States entitled Carol Vorderman’s Sudoku.Ĭarol was honoured as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for “services to broadcasting” in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in June 2000.I notice the shoes first: blue suede high-heeled booties clip-clopping their way through a monotonous sea of suit-clad businessmen. In addition, a large number of school textbooks have been published under her name, chiefly by Dorling Kindersley in series such as English Made Easy, Maths Made Easy, Science Made Easy and How to Pass National Curriculum Maths. She has also written newspaper columns for The Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mirror on Internet topics. She was an anchor of ITV’s Loose Women from 2011 until 2014.Ĭarol is a best-selling author her number one best-seller, “Detox For Life” (2009), sold over a million copies. These include Better Homes and The Pride of Britain Awards for ITV, as well as guest hosting shows such as Have I Got News for You, The Sunday Night Project, Lorraine and BBC TV’s Tomorrow’s World. As well as her long-standing career on Countdown, which has an average audience of 4.5 million viewers, Carol has been widely involved with scientific and technology related programmes both for adult and children’s viewing.
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