Next year, I hope there will be even more parties, lots of holidays and just having a good time, really. Plus wing-walking, air shows and learning to fly, as they are all things I want to do. I won’t be restricted by age. Carol Vorderman Read Quote
Ruby Wax has basically ruined my career. You’ll see when you watch the programme. I get more intimate with Ruby than I’ve ever been with another woman. Carol Vorderman Read Quote
I loved doing ‘Countdown.’ I now consider that I was very, very lucky – not just because it was such a wonderful show to do, but because it lasted for so long. Carol Vorderman Read Quote
I cannot do the piece-of-talking-meat thing, the ‘Here’s your money, wear a pretty dress and take the cheque.’ I’m not made that way. I have to be as good as I can be at whatever I do. Carol Vorderman Read Quote
It really was hand-to-mouth and you can say, ‘Poor little me, how dreadful, what a deprived childhood’, but I didn’t feel that way at all. It’s all about the attitude at home. Carol Vorderman Read Quote
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. Carol Vorderman Read Quote
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. Carol Vorderman Read Quote
Turning 50 changed me and I’m far more accepting of myself. I’m not thin, but I am a size 10. I go in at the middle and very much out at the bottom and top. And now I think, ‘Well, that’s how I am.’ Carol Vorderman Read Quote
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. Carol Vorderman Read Quote
I can’t be bothered to go to the gym, though. I honestly just can’t be bothered – it’s the most boring thing on Earth. I have tried and every six months I go ‘right, I’m going to the gym’. Then I do it for two weeks and get so bored by it. Carol Vorderman Read Quote
