Carol Vorderman “doesn’t want to settle down” with anyone.
Carol Vorderman on why she doesn’t want a traditional relationship
The 62-year-old TV star – who has children Katie, 32, and Cameron, 26, with ex-husband Patrick King but was also previously married to Christopher Mather – revealed last year that she has a circle of “special friends” as opposed to one sexual partner and admitted that the reaction was “universally positive” as she insisted she does not want a traditional relationship.
She said: “Well it was very interesting because I kind of talked about if off-the-cuff because we were talking about mature dating. The reaction was almost universally positive. There were a lot of women in their fifties and sixties – and their daughters – ringing in and saying ‘This is a liberation for me.’ They did say ‘Aren’t you brave?’ I didn’t think it was brave at all, just honest. One particular mother and daughter emailed in and said that ‘My mum started crying when we were watching this because she had been divorced and made me feel like I had failed and people around me had said ‘Haven’t you found someone else to love you?’
When I was in my twenties, I wanted to find somebody, get married, and have children. From my fifties – I live with my children now but they’re grown up – I have a busy house and a life which is very full and happy.
“It has come about naturally. I don’t want to settle with anybody. My life is a cake. I have fantastic friends. I love my job, I love the business of education and I have people who love me. The male-female relationships are sort of the icing on the cake, rather than the fundamental basis of it. “
The former ‘Countdown’ star went on to add explain that her mother had expected her to have been married and settled down while she was still a university student but insisted she would never put that belief onto her own children as she explained her own intimate relationships come about as a result of friendship and noted the number of marriages that end in divorce despite the convention of monogamy being “drummed into” the population from a young age.
Speaking on Monday’s (23.01.23) ‘This Morning’, she added: “They have their lives as well, but I never ask about that. Women are brought up to be carers. When I was young, society’s rules were very different to what how they are now. I was born in 1960 and all women had only had the vote about 30 years earlier. It was a time of liberation and we had the…
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