Carol Vorderman: 'The thought of sharing my life with someone again makes me feel positively sick'
But what really irritates Vorderman, born on Christmas Eve 1960 (hence her name), is the flagrant how-dare-she ageism. “The question was not: ‘Did she have good legs, did she look nice in it?’ but instead: ‘Should a woman of 39 wear a dress above her knee?’ So I’m a tall poppy. But when you’re a celebrity woman, particularly one of a certain age, you are treated as a commodity,’ she says. Vorderman presented Countdown until 2008, when the makers asked her to take a pay cut of 90 per cent. That didn’t add up so she left to take her brand into business as a self-styled ‘ma...
Source: telegraph.co.uk