What is Carol Vorderman?
{{BLP sources|date=April 2012}} [[File:Carol Vorderman Waddington Airshow 2011 -3.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Carol Vorderman in 2011]] '''Carol Jean Vorderman''' (born 24 December 1960)<ref>[http://www.biogs.com/famous/vorderman.html biogs.com]</ref> is a [[British people|British]] [[television]] presenter. She was born in [[Bedford]] and raised in [[Prestatyn]], [[North Wales]]. Her father was [[Netherlands|Dutch]]; her mother is [[Welsh people|Welsh]]. She studied [[engineering]] at [[Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge|Sidney Sussex College]], [[University of Cambridge]]. She is best known for the [[Channel 4]] game show ''[[Countdown (game show)|Countdown]]'' in which she checked the number solutions from the contestants and provided the correct ones if they weren’t spotted, she was on the show from 1982 to 2008 and from 1989 onwards, she became the co-host with Richard Whiteley when she also put up the letters and numbers tiles. She was devastated when Whiteley died in 2005. She is a regular panellist on [[ITV]]1 talk show ''[[Loose Women]]''. She was a [[contestant]] in the second series of ''[[Strictly Come Dancing]]'' in 2004. In 2013 she presented a series about cooking on ITV called ''Food Glorious Food''. She has written books about [[detox diets]]. ==References== <references /> ==Other websites== *{{imdb|0903436}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Vorderman, Carol}} [[Category:British television presenters]] [[Category:British television talk show hosts]] [[Category:Channel 4 presenters]] [[Category:ITV presenters]] [[Category:People from Bedford]] [[Category:Strictly Come Dancing participants]] [[Category:1960 births]] [[Category:Living people]]