This week, broadcaster Carol Vorderman stepped out in London wearing a pair of skin-tight black jeggings and a figure-hugging, flame-hued top, and — good heavens — the nation’s eyes veritably popped.
A torrent of bottoms-and-boobs puns and double entendres rained down. Carol Phoar-derman! Carol Vordashian!
Carol’s orange Karen Millen jersey was tucked in, emphasising her hand-span waist, splendid bosom and a bottom like a couple of bowling balls wrapped in Lycra.
With the flurry of lascivious comment came fevered speculation: has her bosom been surgically enhanced? Has her gravity-defying derriere been lifted? Surely a woman approaching her 60s couldn’t look that bootylicious without a little judicious help from a cosmetic surgeon?
Carol’s award-winning rump — it won her the Rear of the Year title in both 2011 and 2014 — has long been the subject of admiration, gossip and conjecture. Why, it even has its own (unofficial) Twitter account (Carol Vorderman’s Ass).
Carol Vorderman, stepped out into London wearing a pair of skin-tight black jeggings this week
This week it was likened to that of the pneumatic TV personality Kim Kardashian, whose 39-year-old rear invariably looks as though it’s been inflated, almost to bursting point.
‘I’m flattered,’ says 58-year-old Carol. ‘Who wouldn’t want to be compared with someone 20 years younger?’
Carol’s smooth and peachy face has also been the subject of supposition and rumour. Has it been plumped, filled or Botoxed? And what about the hair! Could that flowing mane really be natural?
But quell the speculation, readers! For today we can reveal exclusively what Carol has had done. And what she has left undone. We can disclose the real reasons the woman who won national acclaim as the Cambridge engineering graduate who co-hosted Countdown progressed from swot to siren.
She insists her hour-glass figure is the result of a combination of genes, exercise and … wait for it, HRT.
We give you a step-by-step guide — and let me assure you, Carol takes at least 15,000 steps a day — to getting a bottom as gloriously spherical as hers.
We find out how her face has remained unrumpled by time. And we even discover the secrets of her lingerie drawer.
Over 35 years: Carol's transformation. (Pictured) Carol Vorderman on Countdown in 1984
Carol, who is, up close, more petite than she appears on TV, is bemused by all the fuss. ‘I’ve always had a huge a**e,’ she says. ‘It’s not news.
‘But I think the high-waisted jeggings in the picture — which I bought in Marks & Spencer a few weeks ago for about a tenner — give you a much more defined silhouette. Even I thought “Blooming hell” when I saw some of those pics.
‘If I wore loose clothes, I’d look like Hattie Jacques. And knickers dig into my big bum — so, like most girls, I don’t wear them on the red carpet if I’m in a clingy dress.’
Hold on. You go commando?
‘Yes!’ she cries. ‘But I promise I haven’t had bottom implants. It’s the same old bottom. In my family, loads of us have it: the Vorderman A**e. My daughter Katie has it. My nephew has it. We’re all sticky-out-bottom people.
‘And I’ve been working out for decades, so the shape of mine is down to years of keeping fit.
‘I walk seven miles a day and I try to do a 15-mile walk once a week as well, up the Brecon Beacons or along the River Cam. It makes me so happy.
‘I stride along at 3.5 miles per hour, and on top of that I do three open-air sessions of circuit training a week. I love it!
‘I also live, for part of the time, in a town house in Bristol with four flights of stairs, so I’m constantly running up and down them. I’m always moving.
‘I also rent a fellows’ flat at my old college at Cambridge, Sidney Sussex, and that’s in a garret — so when I stay there I run up and down stairs, too, usually lugging suitcases.
‘On top of that, I have three hourly sessions in the gym every week with a personal trainer. He’s called Little Dave and I’m a little bit in love with him.
‘I go on lots of walking and fitness holidays, too: camping, walking and swimming in the sea.’ Phew! I’m rendered breathless just from listening.
But what does she do — what should we all do — to get a bottom like that?
Carol explains: ‘Now that I’m nearing 60, I’ve changed my gym workout quite a bit. I use weights. I’ve got a 12kg kettle bell and other weights at home. And I do sets of just 12 very slow, deep squats.
‘You go down slowly and power up. They’re called goblet squats. They’re much more precise and targeted, and by the end your muscles are screaming!
‘Then I do a straight-arm plank as well as lunges and hip thrusts with weights.’ So that’s the bottom half dealt with. What about the top?
When you compare pictures of the young Carol, you cannot deny that her bust has increased substantially.
‘I used to be a size 36. Even when I was in my 20s, I had a healthy-sized bust.
‘I’m 5ft 6in and now I’m around nine or nine-and-a-half stone (I don’t know for certain because I haven’t weighed myself since 1999, when I threw out my scales). And I’m a 38D bra size these days.
‘On the day I was photographed this week, I was wearing a grotty old M&S T-shirt bra. Not underwired, just comfy.
‘I think your bust does grow with hormonal changes. And we all know you put on weight when your bust grows. You have babies; it grows. Then you go through the menopause — I had my last period about a year ago — and it grows a bit more.’
She was first prescribed HRT three years ago by Professor John Studd, a London-based expert on menopausal depression. After an uncharacteristic but deep period of misery, during which she confessed she felt suicidal, Carol started taking bio-identical hormones — so-called because they are derived from plants and closely mimic the naturally occurring hormones in the human body.
She was prescribed oestrogen (Oestrogel) and testosterone (Testim) in gel form, so they are applied to and absorbed through the skin, and oral progesterone tablets. ‘I felt better instantaneously, back to my old self. I’ve never felt that awful depression since; nor would I ever want to.’
Since then, after a brief spell last year in which she felt slightly under par, her doctor has tweaked her HRT doses. She now takes double the amount of testos-terone and has increased the oestrogen by 50 per cent. ‘And — though I’m not sure — I think this could be another reason why my bust has got bigger.’
But I tell her: the nation is boggled not merely by its size, but by its obdurate refusal to obey the laws of gravity.
Carol disputes this. ‘I can assure you my bust isn’t gravity-defying,’ she laughs. ‘I have to hoick them up with a bra, like everyone else.’
The HRT, she reports, is also great for boosting libido. She doesn’t have a regular boyfriend, but confides: ‘I get up to a lot of mischief. I have a number of special friends — but I’m not doing anything wrong. Everyone’s single. And yes, apart from one, they’re all younger than me.’
But she’s not naming names. ‘I’ll have broken the code. I never mention them, and they don’t talk about me. If I told you who they were, I’d have to kill you!’ Her laughter is frequent and infectious.
‘I don’t want to settle down,’ she adds. ‘I’m enjoying my freedom.
‘I’ve been a happily dutiful mum, supported my kids financially and raised them on my own. [Carol has two children from her second marriage to Patrick King, which ended in divorce in 2000: Katie, 26, a PhD student, and Cameron, 22, who is studying animation.]
‘I also cared for my wonderful Mum full-time until she died two years ago.
‘I hate the phrase “me time”, but it’s the first time in my life I haven’t been looking after anyone, and I intend to enjoy every minute.’
She is defiantly unabashed by the critics who carp that her clothes are age-inappropriate. Resolutely politically incorrect, she welcomes approbation and enjoys being wolf-whistled. ‘What’s the harm in it?’ she asks.
All of which begs the question: how could the studious girl with an Eighties bubble perm, swathed in frumpy frocks and over-sized jackets (her prescribed Countdown uniform for 26 years), have undergone such a sartorial transformation, too.
Carol insists that when it comes to clothes, she’s always been a maverick. ‘In my Cambridge days, I wore thigh-high boots every day. I was a rebel. My tutor, when he turned 90 last year, still called me “Boots Vorderman”.
‘Then, years ago, when I was 39, I wore a short blue dress to the Baftas and all hell broke loose, with everyone asking: “Should a woman of that age wear a short dress?” Kilroy even did a programme on it.
‘I thought then: “Why should I be invisible?” Today, of course, no one would bat an eyelid.’
Then, in 2006, Roland Mouret – the master of structure and silhouette — designed a dress with stretchy fabric made for people with curves. Carol wore it and started to turn heads.
‘He changed the market for us big bottomers. We were labelled big-hipped before, then suddenly we became curvy.’
Along with the attention her eye-catching new wardrobe elicited, Carol’s face also started to garner attention. It is almost 20 years, she observes, since the rumours began about her having facial surgery.
Firstly, when she was 42 and in hospital after a serious and dangerous, operation to remove her gall bladder, people asked whether she’d actually gone to ‘have work’.
Then, in 2014, when presenting ITV’s Loose Women, Carol broke her nose when she fell down the stairs. ‘Although 12 people saw me fall, Chris Evans said on his BBC show the next day that I was “covering up” for having a nose job. As if I would!’ she laughs incredulously. ‘I actually like my nose!
‘Fortunately I had evidence in the form of photos, so Chris had to shut up. But it takes hold.’
The calumnies have continued to chase her. When she went into the jungle for I’m A Celebrity in 2016, she elicited more comments, both caustic and adulatory. Fans praised her ‘timeless beauty’; detractors said she looked ‘so full of plastic’ she was likely to melt.
Yet she insists that the truth about what she’s actually had done to her face amounts to very little. She maintains that she has never had a nip or a tuck, much less a full facelift, although she doesn’t — quite — refute it either.
But she will admit to Botox — once a year since she turned 50 — in her forehead and in the ‘smile lines’ around her eyes. And a bit in her neck.
‘Why don’t you start asking men in TV about it, too? A hell of a lot of them have it. Why should we girls get all the bashing? We should have equality!’ she cries.
Then there’s the hair. She will admit to extensions, which she says are ‘bog standard’ in TV.
‘Everyone has them,’ she protests. ‘Ruth Langsford (of This Morning) did a great video about how she has hers done. We all have them to make our hair look thicker. It’s as routine as brushing your teeth.
‘Mine are called taped extensions and they get changed every time I get my colour done.’
As for her glowing skin and the sparkle in her eyes, she attributes this to a good diet (she wrote a million-selling detox book years ago), vast amounts of exercise and a battery of non-invasive skin procedures.
She reels them off: plasma showers which improve uneven pigmentation and dull complexions by applying lasers and pulsed light to the skin. Derma rollers — micro needles that stimulate collagen and elastin fibres to make skin smoother — and she gulps down (along with the pints of water she drinks daily to make sure her pee is clear) numerous nutritional supplements.
‘I take vitamins A and D, omega 3 and fish oils, calcium for my bones, a pro-biotic for my gut, and I drink cider vinegar and juices.
‘And I eat well. I cut down on sugar and cut down on carbs long before it became fashionable, and most of the week I drink very little alcohol. Your tolerance goes down after the menopause. Two glasses of wine and I feel it the next day. But I do love to party!’
Doubtless the youthfully indefatigable Carol — who, lest we forget, has sold more educational books for children than anyone in the history of the UK — will continue to elicit the nation’s boggle-eyed interest because she possesses that coveted combination of brains and beauty.
She concedes there will come a time when even she will succumb, out of vanity, to the surgeon’s knife. ‘If people want to have stuff done, let them!’ she says. ‘I’m sure I will, too . . . one day.'
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Main photo article This week, broadcaster Carol Vorderman stepped out in London wearing a pair of skin-tight black jeggings and a figure-hugging, flame-hued top, and — good heavens — the nation’s eyes veritably popped.
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Emily Ratajkowski is a showman, on and off the stage. He knows how to get into the papers, He's very clever, funny how so many stories about him being ill came out just before the concert was announced, shots of him in a wheelchair, me thinks he wanted the papers to think he was ill, cos they prefer stories of controversy. Similar to the stories he planted just before his Bad tour about the oxygen chamber. Worked a treat lol. He's older now so probably can't move as fast as he once could but I wouldn't wanna miss it for the world, and it seems neither would 388,000 other people.
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