Carol Vorderman on family importance of Remembrance Sunday
Former Countdown host Carol Vorderman has revealed that, while her father would still see her elder siblings, he refused to see her until she was 42 years old.
The 62-year-old ex-BBC presenter spoke about the “worst setbacks” she experienced in her life on the Postcards From Midlife podcast.
Reflecting on her childhood with hosts Lorraine Candy and Trish Halpin, Carol said: “It gives you the spirit of, ‘Well, if I can live through that, I can get through anything.’”
“Let’s go back to 1960,” Carol began. “My mother was pregnant with me and then, unbeknownst to her, my father was having an affair with a very young woman.
“And he told her after I was born on Christmas eve,” she continued. “And then a couple of weeks after I was born and she went home from the hospital and he [told her about the affair] she went back to her hometown in North Wales.”
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Carol went on to explain how her mother had taken her and her siblings, who are about 10 years older, and they went on to live in a small flat with very little space.
“We literally had no money and my father never gave my mum money,” Carol remembered.
“Because as a child you don’t know how hard it is, but when you become a mother yourself you go, ‘Oh right, now I get it’.
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Reflecting on her time as a “free school meals kid”, she went on to share a heartbreaking revelation about her relationship with her father.
“My father – and this was really odd, actually – would see my brother and sister but he would never see me,” she said. “I didn’t meet him until I was 42.”
Carol then went on to reveal that her mother had been able to find happiness with her stepfather, whom she refers to as “dad”.
“My mum remarried this mad Italian who had been a prisoner of war when I was nine,” Carol recalled fondly, before sharing that the whole family ran away to the circus for a while.
However, this didn’t last long, and Carol and her mum soon moved in with her Italian stepfather, whom the Countdown star “absolutely adores”.
The Postcards From Midlife podcast with Lorraine Candy and Trish Halpin is available to listen to on streaming services now.
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