Carol Vorderman

  Carol Jean Vorderman MBE HonFIET was born on 24 December 1960 in Wales. Her most famous work is as a columnist for Countdown and a possible author of educational and diet books. She has written books on detox diets.Vorderman's career started in 1982, when she was a guest on the Channel 4 game show Countdown. She was on the show alongside Richard Whiteley from 1982 until his death in 2005, and then alongside Des Lynam and Des O'Connor, before leaving in 2008. From 1982 until his death in 2005, Vorderman presented other shows for various broadcasters, such as Better Homes and The Pride of Britain Awards for ITV. She also hosted shows such as Lorraine, Have I Got News for You and The Sunday Night Project. Vorderman was also the presenter on ITV's Loose Women between 2011 and the year 2014. Vorderman was born in Bedford, Bedfordshire, the youngest of three children of Dutch father, Anton Vorderman (1920-2007) as well as a Welsh mother, Edwina Jean Davies (1928-2017).Her parents separated three weeks after her birth and her mother took her family back to her home town of Prestatyn, Denbighshire, North Wales in North Wales, where Vorderman along with her siblings, Anton and Trixie, lived in a single parent household. Vorderman did not see her father again until the age of 42. In 1970, her mother was married to Italian Armido Rizzi. The couple split 10 years later. Vorderman's father got married again, and Vorderman's wife died in early 1990s.