Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
CAROL ON WHY
Carol Vorderman has a scientific rather than sentimental outlook when it comes to finding love. The self-confessed engineering nerd has based her theory on evidence gained from real-life experience.
And her conclusion? “All this ‘you have a love of your life’ stuff is just tat. It’s just from Disney, really.
“Half of all marriages disintegrate. Of those that last longer than 10 years, of what percentage of those are happy? In all my years I’ve rarely met any.
“If couples have found that, they should be celebrated – that’s fantastic. But if they haven’t, that’s equally OK. We shouldn’t beat ourselves up.
“I’ve seen men and women suffer unnecessarily in a bad relationship. They stay together but they’re unhappy.
“That might make me sound hard. But I’m just very realistic. It means I make the best of my life because I’m not clinging on to any dream whatsoever.”
Carol, 57, recently said she’s “happily, blissfully single”. Asked if she’s seeing anyone special now, she says: “I’m not telling. I never tell.”
If there is a special man, perhaps he’d be well advised not to get too cosy or make long-term plans. Because Carol doesn’t want to play a long game in love.
She says: “I don’t have a problem with getting over people. I see my life in chapters because we all change.
“The 20-year-old Carol is very different from the 57-year-old Carol, who is different from 40-year-old Carol. Therefore, why would I want someone to fit into each part of my life?
“When you’ve got a busy life dating is not the priority, not the biggest thing in my world.”
Finding a man to match Carol’s brain power “isn’t a problem at all”, she laughs. But finding one who can keep up with her non-stop schedule might be tough.
In the past week or so she has spent time in Washington DC with a friend who was an astronaut and space shuttle commander.
Then she jetted to Dallas to an air show where she was shown the RAF’S new F35 fighter jets.
This week she’s hosting ITV’S Lorraine and next the Daily Mirror’s Pride of Britain Awards, in partnership with TSB.
Then it’s off to Argentina with NASA to take a 12-hour flight across Antarctica. Then to California “for a break, but also to write a book”. Any potential dates who