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Carol Vorderman Quotes

List of quotations and sayings by the british entertainer Carol Vorderman on topics like kids, friend, work

  • I drive a tiny Toyota iQ. I'm quite frugal and often cut my own hair.

    — Carol Vorderman on drive
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  • 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.

    — Carol Vorderman on affair
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  • I have had stalkers over the years. The police deal with it but it is very scary. One man kept turning up where we filmed 'Countdown in Leeds,' which was scary. It was sad as he'd been sectioned and thought I was talking to him through the TV.

    — Carol Vorderman on deal
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  • 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 on woman
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  • 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 on age
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  • 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.

    — Carol Vorderman on glitz
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  • Most people have the wrong idea about me because I've been very private.

    — Carol Vorderman on idea
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  • The first couple of days on the detox diet aren't pleasant.

    — Carol Vorderman on couple
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  • We all have, in my family, what we call the 'Vorderman bottom' - a sticky out, bigger-than-normal, signature, of the rear variety. It's been a family joke all our lives - even my lovely brother has one. I know the lines to all the good singalong big bum songs.

    — Carol Vorderman on big
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  • I think it's really hard for teenage girls in London to just gently.

    .. have a life. Everything has to be organised for kids in London - you can't just walk three roads to see a friend.

    — Carol Vorderman on friend
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  • For now I'm building up stories for the retirement home!

    — Carol Vorderman on building
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  • 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.

    — Carol Vorderman on ate
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  • About Carol Vorderman

    Name Carol Vorderman
    Quotes 41 quotations
    Nationality British
    Profession Entertainer
    Birthday 24 December 1960
    About Carol Jean Vorderman MBE RAFVR(T) (born 24 December 1960) is a British media personality, best known for co-hosting the popular game show Countdown for 26 years from 1982 until 2008. Vorderman's career took off in 1982 when she joined Channel 4 game show Countdown.
    Top topics kids, friend, work, children, year
  • 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 on cheque
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  • I was away a lot on 'Countdown' when the children were young and I couldn't have done it without Mum's help. Because she was at home running all of that, I never had to worry about them.

    — Carol Vorderman on children
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  • 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.

    — Carol Vorderman on biscuits
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  • Change is one of my favourite words.

    — Carol Vorderman on change
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  • My first marriage was totally unsuitable and shouldn't have happened.

    It was a whirlwind, rebound thing. I was 23 or 24 - a baby.

    — Carol Vorderman on baby
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  • I'm a bit frightened of the idea of a full facelift because, when you look in the mirror, you want to look like yourself.

    — Carol Vorderman on bit
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  • 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 on bored
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  • All I wanted to do was put together one of the best home maths systems in the world, and that's what we've done. I've loved numbers since I was two or three, and I get really excited about them. Now, I'm allowing myself to get excited about things. If you're doing it for a TV network or any major corporation, you have to put a lid on it a little.

    — Carol Vorderman on allowing
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  • I would never say never to marrying again but for the time being I'm having a great time.

    — Carol Vorderman on time
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  • 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 on chance
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  • Everything has to be organised for kids in London - you can't just walk three roads to see a friend.

    — Carol Vorderman on friend
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  • 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 on attitude
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  • 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.

    — Carol Vorderman on beggars
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  • I would put belly laughing at the top of my highlights list.

    They always say that laughter is the best medicine.

    — Carol Vorderman on belly
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  • Since I turned 50, I've had the best year of my life and I now throw as much effort into the social side of my life as I do work - more so now than ever before.

    — Carol Vorderman on effort
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  • 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 on accepting
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  • Once you have children it's love without bounds.

    You would die for them in an instant, without question. How can you better that?

    — Carol Vorderman on bounds
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  • I do need my independence. I have to have that.

    — Carol Vorderman on independence
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  • After 30 years of television, I want to play more than I used to.

    — Carol Vorderman on play
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  • 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 on lasted
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  • There are machines that can get rid of your cellulite, so I want to do that.

    And my friend has just had a machine that has worked on her neck and tightened the elasticity of the skin. You just need a day off work afterwards, so I'm thinking, why not?

    — Carol Vorderman on elasticity
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  • My commitment is to my kids and my mum and I'm having a whale of a time.

    — Carol Vorderman on commitment
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  • My bottom is so big it's got its own gravitational field.

    — Carol Vorderman on fitness
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  • 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 on eccentric
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  • If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder.

    But that's what makes you who you are.

    — Carol Vorderman on background
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  • I'm terrible as I never take my make-up off at night, which I know is really dreadful. Whenever I'm out partying I just can't be bothered and now I am on 'Loose Women' that tends to be all the time. I hope next year holds even more parties for me.

    — Carol Vorderman on bothered
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  • I'm very pleased how my children have turned out.

    — Carol Vorderman on children
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  • How you look has become ridiculously disproportionate to what you do.

    Critics are more harsh on female presenters.

    — Carol Vorderman on critics
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  • 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 on brother
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