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 nominal author of diet and educational books. She has written books on detox diets.Vorderman's career in the media began in 1982, when she was a guest on the Channel 4 game show Countdown. From 1982 until Richard Whiteley's death in 2005 she appeared on the show together with Des Lynam, Des O'Connor and then left in the year 2008. From 1982 to his passing 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 of ITV’s Loose Women between 2011 and 2014. Vorderman was born in Bedford, Bedfordshire, the third child of a Dutch father, Anton Vorderman (1920-2007), and an English mother, Welsh mother, Edwina Jean Davies (1928-2017).Her parents split three weeks after her birth, and her mother took her family back to their hometown of Prestatyn, Denbighshire, North Wales in North Wales, in North Wales, where Vorderman and her siblings, Anton and Trixie, lived in a single parent family. Vorderman was not able to see her father again until the age of 42. Her mother, Italian Armido Rizzi, got married to Vorderman in the year 1970. Ten years later the couple broke up. Vorderman's father remarried; his wife passed away in the early 1990s.