Carol Jean Vorderman, MBE also previously known by her number 1 married title Carol Mather, was innate December 24, 1960 to a Dutch father and the Welsh mother. The British television personality & onetime creator, she is better known for her function on the Channel 4 game show Countdown with the late Richard Whiteley. Vorderman wwhen the newly rather game indicate hostess, non sole shopping attractive however revealing her rational ability by carrying out convenient & exact mathematical calculations as section of the game (her IQ has been rated at 154). Her continued profits on a indicate saw her turn into one of the greatest paid women around Britain, earning 2 million pounds a year for her function.

She grew higher within Rhyl in North Wales and later graduated from either Sidney Sussex College at the University of Cambridge with a Bachelor of Arts degree (Third Class honours) after reading Engineering (Cambridge awards BAs in all cases). Incidentally, third class honours degrees come typically known as 'Vordermans' by students in the UK. She was too the member of the "Nines club" within Cambridge, this class action is known as that way because members come ones that achieve the third in both of their trinity years of learn (3+3+3=Ennead). She was awarded an MBE within June 2000. Fallowing making her title in Countdown, she went in to present many more television programmes, to the point in which she wwhen regarded as existence across-involved. She has been criticised for non growing older gracefully, & was mocked for wearing a telling dress at the BAFTAs in 2000. She presented Tomorrow's World until she was dropped due to appearing in a commercial for washing powder. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/227820.stm]

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