Carol Vorderman

Contents

Shows

Ask No Questions

Better Gardens

Better Homes

Big Brain Game

Britain's Brainiest

Countdown

Crosswits (regular panellist)

The Game

The Golden Lot

Grand Slam

Have I Got News for You (guest host)

On Your Marks

Strictly Come Dancing (contestant, series 2)

Sudoku Live

Trouble in Paradise

Biography

Although now one of the best paid women on British television, Carol Vorderman and her sister and brother spent most of their childhood in freezing cold houses and without a father figure (he left when she was only three weeks old).

Carol studied engineering at Cambridge, and worked as a civil engineer.

An advertisement in a local newspaper, looking for someone with "brains and beauty", was spotted by Jean, Carol's mother. Jean applied for the job on Carol's behalf, and so Vorderman became the "Face with the Figures" on the letters and numbers quiz Countdown.

Since then, an ever-increasing stream of programmes as followed, mostly of a computer or scientific bent.

Trivia

One of Carol's teachers wrote on a school report: "Carol has a masterly hold of mathematical computation, which should prove profitable in the future." Indeed it was.

Books / Tapes

Carol Vorderman's Guide to the Internet

How Mathematics Works

Web links

Wikipedia entry

Internet Movie Database entry

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