- She attended Blessed Edward Jones High School, Rhyl, Wales before graduating from Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge with a Bachelor degree in engineering. She then went on to obtain a Masters degree in Engineering.
- Father is Dutch; mother is Welsh.
- When she first appeared as a TV personality, she used the name Carol Mather, her married name at the time.
- Was the winner of the final show of Ant and Dec's Gameshow Marathon, Family Fortunes, a part of ITV's 50th birthday celebrations.
- Member of MENSA with IQ of 154
- Grew up in her mother's hometown of Prestatyn, north Wales.
- Studied engineering at Cambridge University; graduated in 1981.
- She was awarded an M.B.E. (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2000 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to broadcasting.
- Her primary school was St Mary's School, Rhyl, Wales
- Has two children with her second husband Patrick King - a daughter Katie King and a son Cameron King.
- In 2004, she was voted runner-up in a Radio Times poll of "Thinking Man's Crumpet", behind fellow forty-something Nigella Lawson. Came sixth in a Sky TV survey of men's sexual fantasies.
- Carol was briefly a backing singer in the Leeds-based pop group Dawn Chorus and the Blue Tits which was fronted by radio DJ Liz Kershaw.
- She and her partner Des Kelly, a newspaper executive, live in Central London with her children Katie, 12, and Cameron, 6, from her second marriage, to management consultant, Patrick King (March 2004)
- As a guest on Top Gear (2002), Vorderman completed the traditional celebrity driving speed lap in 01m:51.2s (28 December 2003).
- The first celebrity contestant to appear on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (1998).
- TV personality
- BBC has stated that she is gluten intolerant.
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