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" When I get tired, I start eating things that I wouldn't normally crave, like biscuits, because they'll give me a bit of energy to keep going. "
Carol Vorderman
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" Next year, I hope there will be even more parties, lots of holidays and just having a good time, really. Plus wing-walking, air shows and learning to fly, as they are all things I want to do. I won't be restricted by age. "
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" One day Mum saved up for this exciting new thing - a frozen chicken. She cooked it on the Sunday and we all sat around waiting for it, but there was a terrible smell from the kitchen. She didn't realise that the giblets were in a plastic bag inside it. We just ate vegetables and she cried and cried. "
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" My bottom is so big it's got its own gravitational field. "
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" It really was hand-to-mouth and you can say, 'Poor little me, how dreadful, what a deprived childhood', but I didn't feel that way at all. It's all about the attitude at home. "
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" I cannot do the piece-of-talking-meat thing, the 'Here's your money, wear a pretty dress and take the cheque.' I'm not made that way. I have to be as good as I can be at whatever I do. "
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" The photoshoot glitz and TV studio make-up isn't the real me. I spend most days at home in Bristol in jeans and a T-shirt running around after the kids or shopping in the Co-op. "
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" If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are. "
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" Everything has to be organised for kids in London - you can't just walk three roads to see a friend. "
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" My commitment is to my kids and my mum and I'm having a whale of a time. "
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" Most people have the wrong idea about me because I've been very private. "
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" Ruby Wax has basically ruined my career. You'll see when you watch the programme. I get more intimate with Ruby than I've ever been with another woman. "
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" Change is one of my favourite words. "
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" I loved doing 'Countdown.' I now consider that I was very, very lucky - not just because it was such a wonderful show to do, but because it lasted for so long. "
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" The first couple of days on the detox diet aren't pleasant. "
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" I do need my independence. I have to have that. "
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" I drive a tiny Toyota iQ. I'm quite frugal and often cut my own hair. "
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" We all have, in my family, what we call the 'Vorderman bottom' - a sticky out, bigger-than-normal, signature, of the rear variety. It's been a family joke all our lives - even my lovely brother has one. I know the lines to all the good singalong big bum songs. "
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" How you look has become ridiculously disproportionate to what you do. Critics are more harsh on female presenters. "
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" There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He was happy to see my brother and sister, but not me. I don't know why. Maybe it was shame. I don't know. But he never wanted anything to do with me. That rejection was terribly hurtful and it went on for years. "
Carol Vorderman
Sister
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" I'm very pleased how my children have turned out. "
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" The divorce is a regret of mine and my mum thinks that we should have stayed together. He's now remarried so there's no chance of us getting back together. "
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" I've never once heard my mum shout and she's 83 now. She's incredible. She's very, very happy, slightly eccentric but loves laughing, which I do too. "
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" More than 55,000 men from Bomber Command lost their lives, of whom 38,000 were British. That's one in 10 of all the British servicemen lost in the Second World War. It beggars belief that there has not been some recognition for what they gave until now. "
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" I would never say never to marrying again but for the time being I'm having a great time. "
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