Carol Vorderman, 62, reveals she has five ‘special friends’ but ‘doesn’t do one night stands’

Carol Vorderman has revealed that she has five ‘special friends’.

Countdown favourite, 62, appeared on Michelle Visage’s latest show Rules breaker podcast where he discussed the ‘system’ it has had for the past 10 years.

Giving a very candid look at her complicated love life, Carol said she “doesn’t like one-night stands” instead dating various men whom she affectionately calls her “special friends”.

When Michelle asked if she was in a relationship, Carol quipped, “No! I’m having the best time. I have talked about this once. I have a system that I have had for 10 years. They are called ‘special friends’.

“I talked a couple of months ago about having ‘special friends’ and it was like, again, the world fell in love with some people, but actually what I found out was that there were a lot of women who were like ‘I never thought about this. this way”.’

Carol added that she’s been in “long-term relationships, if you will” with her special friends, and has been dating some for years.

She said: ‘One is 11, one is seven, you know they’re all single. It’s a happy place. I hasten to add that I don’t like one-night stands.

‘The language around a woman of my generation is that if you had more than one partner when you got married, you were this, you were that. Everything was derogatory about a woman, that was the environment in which she was growing up. It was like ‘she’s desperate’, everything was critical.’

Carol continued, ‘Well, you can take all of that and throw it out the window, that’s my polite way of saying it.

But no harm is being done. It is a happy place to live. The only thing I was sold when I was young was a fairy tale where a poor girl meets a prince, they get married and live happily ever after.

‘This whole assumption: ‘Do you already have a partner? Do you have a man? Well no, actually I have five.

Michelle responded by calling the math genius a ‘legend’.

Carol has previously spoken about her many “special friends”, one of whom is an astronaut who “calls her from the space station”.

She said on This Morning: ‘I live my life in chapters, and you said and this chapter since I was around 50 years old. So, for the last decade, I have lived a life that is much freer.

I have never felt more free. So I have ignored the search for a person and have a number of what I have called “special friends”.

She continued: ‘I really don’t want to get married again. I really don’t want to live with a man again. You have to take care of it all the time. But this is a time to break this nonsensical taboo, which is that a person should only look for another person who will fulfill everything in her life. That is hell.

In addition to their ‘special friends’, Carol explained: ‘They don’t know each other, but they know. It is a very honest relationship.

‘One of them has lasted many more years than my marriage. Yes, it is more than 10 years. Another is seven. He is an astronaut. He called me from the space station.

Carol has been single since she separated from journalist Des Kelly in 2007, after being married twice, first to Christopher Mather from 1985 to 1986 and then to her second husband, Patrick King, from 1990 to 2000. The couple share two children. .