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== Shows == | == Shows == | ||
[[Ask No Questions]] (as Carol Mather) | [[Ask No Questions]] (as Carol Mather) | ||
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[[Better Homes]] | [[Better Homes]] | ||
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[[Britain's Brainiest]] | [[Britain's Brainiest]] | ||
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| + | [[The Apprentice|Comic Relief Does The Apprentice]] (participant) | ||
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| + | [[Cooking With the Stars]] (participant) | ||
[[Countdown]] | [[Countdown]] | ||
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| - | [[The Game]] | + | [[The Game]] (final two programmes) |
| - | [[Gameshow Marathon]] ( | + | [[Gameshow Marathon]] (winner) |
[[The Golden Lot]] | [[The Golden Lot]] | ||
| - | [[Grand Slam]] | + | [[Grand Slam (2)|Grand Slam]] |
[[Have I Got News for You]] (guest host) | [[Have I Got News for You]] (guest host) | ||
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| - | [[Strictly Come Dancing]] ( | + | [[On Your Marks]] |
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| + | [[Soapstars]] (live final) | ||
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| + | [[Strictly Come Dancing]] (participant) | ||
[[Sudoku Live]] | [[Sudoku Live]] | ||
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== Biography == | == Biography == | ||
| - | Although | + | Although previously 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. | Carol studied engineering at Cambridge, and worked as a civil engineer. | ||
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In the mid-80s, she occasionally sang backing vocals in the group Dawn Chorus and the Blue Tits, though as far as we're aware she didn't appear on any of their recordings. | In the mid-80s, she occasionally sang backing vocals in the group Dawn Chorus and the Blue Tits, though as far as we're aware she didn't appear on any of their recordings. | ||
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| + | She was the subject of one edition of the BBC's family history series, "Who Do You Think You Are?" | ||
== Books / Tapes == | == Books / Tapes == | ||
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| + | [http://www.amazon.co.uk/All-Counts-Carol-Vorderman/dp/0755360079/labyrinthgames It All Counts: My Story] (autobiography) | ||
[http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0130799831/labyrinthgames Carol Vorderman's Guide to the Internet] | [http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0130799831/labyrinthgames Carol Vorderman's Guide to the Internet] | ||
Current revision as of 21:13, 19 August 2024
Contents |
Shows
Ask No Questions (as Carol Mather)
Comic Relief Does The Apprentice (participant)
Cooking With the Stars (participant)
The Game (final two programmes)
Gameshow Marathon (winner)
Have I Got News for You (guest host)
I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! (participant)
Soapstars (live final)
Strictly Come Dancing (participant)
Biography
Although previously 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 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.
She appeared in the video for that doesn't-get-played-much number one smash Mr Blobby by Mr Blobby.
In the mid-80s, she occasionally sang backing vocals in the group Dawn Chorus and the Blue Tits, though as far as we're aware she didn't appear on any of their recordings.
She was the subject of one edition of the BBC's family history series, "Who Do You Think You Are?"
Books / Tapes
It All Counts: My Story (autobiography)
Carol Vorderman's Guide to the Internet
Contact
c/o John Miles Organisation, Cadbury Camp Lane, Clapton-in-Gordano, Bristol, BS20 7SB.
