Carol Vorderman is a British media personality who grew up in Prestatyn alongside her siblings Anton and Trixie Vorderman.
She is notable for co-hosting the famous game show Countdown for twenty-six years from 1982 to 2008. Carol is also known for being a newspaper columnist and nominal author of diet and educational books.
Carol has published several books on detox diets and has hosted the annual Pride of Britain awards. Her career began in 1982 after joining Channel 4 games show Countdown. She co-hosted the show with Richard Whiteley from 1982 until his death in 2005.
She then appeared with Des O’Connor and Des Lynam before leaving the show in 2008. While appearing on the game show, Carol started presenting other shows for different broadcasters such as The Pride of Britain Awards and Better Homes for ITV.
Vorderman usually shares cheerful posts and happy messages with her fans through social media. However, her positivity masks a painful past. She is vocal about her childhood and is close to her elder siblings, Anton and Trixie.
Carol Vorderman Sister – Trixie Vorderman
Trixie Vorderman is best known for being the elder sister of British personality Carol Vorderman.
She is the eldest child of her Dutch father, Anton Vorderman, and a Welsh mother, Edwina Jean Davies. Her sister, Carol, is the youngest of three children of her parents. The couple separated three weeks after her birth.
Her father was having an affair with a 16-year-old girl when her mom was pregnant with Carol, the former Countdown star revealed to the Guardian. Edwina found out about the affair when her newborn was three weeks old and left.
Edwina then took the family back to her hometown in Prestatyn, Denbighshire, North Wales, where Trixie and her siblings grew up in a single-parent household.
Trixie’s mom married an Italian Armido Rizzi in 1970. After a decade of togetherness and couple parted separate ways. Her father remarried, and his better half passed away in the early 1990s.
How Old Is Trixie Vorderman?
Trixie Vorderman is ten years older than her sister, Carol Vorderman, which makes her seventy-one years old.
Carol was born on December 24, 1960, in Bedford, United Kingdom, the youngest child of her parents, Tony Vorderman and Edvina Davies. After separating from her father, her mom took the family to Prestatyn.
Trixie’s younger brother, Anton Vorderman, is two years younger than her and eight years older than Carol, which makes him sixty-nine years old. The siblings are incredibly close to each other.
Carol joined Blessed Edward Jones Catholic High School. In 1978, she attended Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge to study engineering. The TV personality left the college with a third-class degree.
Former Countdown star did not trace the Dutch side of her family until 2007. It was then that she found her dad had been a member of the Dutch residence during the Nazi occupation. Unfortunately, Tony died while the program was being filmed.
Photos: Where Is Carol’s Sister Trixie Vorderman Now?
Trixie has preferred to remain away from the spotlight unlike her famous sister, Carol Vorderman.
Carol is recently sparkling through her Instagram posts. She shared an age-defying image as she posed for a revealing snap on Instagram stories while having fun with a plush fitness retreat in Portugal.
The sixty-one-year-old flaunter her famous curves in a cropped black and pink swimming top with matching bottoms. The Countdown star is enjoying her holiday at a fitness retreat at Juicy Oasis.
She is also on TikTok and has shared short clips on social media telling her fans to join her and have a lot of fun on the video-sharing app.
In October 2021, Carol’s bog brother Anton Vorderman joined her at the Pride of Britain awards along with her two children, Cameron and Katie. Anton was living in Holland and went to Thailand due to lung issues.