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Carol Jean Vorderman MBE RAFVR(T) (born 24 December 1960) is a British media personality, best known for co-hosting the popular game show ''Countdown'' for 26 years from 1982 until 2008. Vorderman's career took off in 1982 when she joined Channel 4 game show ''Countdown''. She co-hosted the show most recently with Des O'Connor; before that Vorderman was co-host with Des Lynam and Richard Whiteley (from 1982 until his death in 2005). She left the show in 2008 and was replaced by Rachel Riley. Whilst appearing on ''Countdown'', Vorderman began presenting other shows for various broadcasters including ''Better Homes'' and ''The Pride of Britain Awards'' for ITV, as well as guest hosting shows such as ''Have I Got News for You'', ''The Sunday Night Project'' and ''Lorraine''. Vorderman was a presenter of ITV's ''Loose Women''〔(Carol Vorderman – Presenters – ''Loose Women'' ) at itv.com〕 from 2011 until 2014. ==Early life and education== Vorderman was born in Bedford, Bedfordshire, the youngest of three children〔 to Dutch father Anton 'Tony' Vorderman (1920–2007) and Welsh mother Edwina Jean (née Davies, born 1928).〔''Who Do You Think You Are?'', 27 September 2007〕 Her parents separated three weeks after her birth, and her mother took the family back to her home town of Prestatyn, North Wales,〔 where Vorderman and her siblings, Anton and Trixie,〔''Family Fortunes'', 11 February 2012〕 grew up in a one-parent household. Vorderman did not see her father again until she was 42. In 1970, her mother married Italian immigrant Armido Rizzi.〔GRO Register of Marriages: SEP 1970 8a 1666 ST ASAPH – Armido G. Rizzi=Edwina J. Vorderman〕 The couple separated ten years later.〔''Piers Morgan's Life Stories'', 27 April 2012〕 Vorderman's father remarried; his wife died in the early 1990s.〔 Vorderman was educated at the Roman Catholic comprehensive Blessed Edward Jones High School in Rhyl. In 1978, when she was 17, she matriculated to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where she studied engineering; Vorderman, earning a third in all three years of her education at Cambridge and thus a member of the 'Nines Club', graduated with a third-class honours degree three years later.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Degree classification: Have the Desmond and Vorderman had their day? )〕 Vorderman did not trace the Dutch side of her family until 2007 (as part of the BBC genealogy programme ''Who Do You Think You Are?''). It was only at this point that she discovered that her father had been an active member of the Dutch resistance during the Nazi occupation. He died while the programme was being filmed.〔 Her great-grandfather Adolphe Vorderman played a key role in the discovery of vitamins.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Who Do You Think You Are? – Carol Vorderman )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Carol Vorderman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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