Anecdotes

She attended Blessed Edward Jones High School, Rhyl, Wales before graduating from Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge with a Bachelor degree in engineering. She then went on to obtain a Masters degree in Engineering.

Father is Dutch; mother is Welsh.

Member of MENSA with IQ of 154

When she first appeared as a TV personality, she used the name Carol Mather, her married name at the time.

Was the winner of the final show of Ant and Dec's Gameshow Marathon, Family Fortunes, a part of ITV's 50th birthday celebrations.

Grew up in her mother's hometown of Prestatyn, north Wales.

Studied engineering at Cambridge University; graduated in 1981.

She was awarded an M.B.E. (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2000 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to broadcasting.

Her primary school was St Mary's School, Rhyl, Wales

Has two children with her second husband Patrick King - a daughter Katie King and a son Cameron King.

In 2004, she was voted runner-up in a Radio Times poll of "Thinking Man's Crumpet", behind fellow forty-something Nigella Lawson. Came sixth in a Sky TV survey of men's sexual fantasies.

Carol was briefly a backing singer in the Leeds-based pop group Dawn Chorus and the Blue Tits which was fronted by radio DJ Liz Kershaw.

She and her partner Des Kelly, a newspaper executive, live in Central London with her children Katie, 12, and Cameron, 6, from her second marriage, to management consultant, Patrick King (mars 2004)

As a guest on Top Gear (2002), Vorderman completed the traditional celebrity driving speed lap in 01m:51.2s (28 December 2003).

The first celebrity contestant to appear on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (1998).

BBC has stated that she is gluten intolerant.

TV personality