“There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want a...” — Carol Vorderman Quote

“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.”

“My father was having an affair with a 16-year-old when Mum was pregnant with me. She found out when I was three weeks old and left, not surprisingly.”

“I would never say never to marrying again but for the time being I'm having a great time.”

“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.”

“I'm a bit frightened of the idea of a full facelift because, when you look in the mirror, you want to look like yourself.”

“I'd be happy to stay single now because I've always been in relationships. For the first time ever I can do what I want, when I want, with who I want, without answering to anyone.”

“I could give you a list of songs that I heard on the radio that I went right out and bought and yet knew would not work for Karen and me. That we were brother and sister just had a whole lot to do with it.”

“I left my family, and I left my brother and sister, and I went and lived my dream. I saw everybody, but is it ever enough?”

“People will laugh at me, but when they ask me to make a wish for the next life, I will say I want the same parents, same brother and sister, same wife, same friends.”

“No one can complain about earning good money, but for me, it's being able to help my family out, put my brother and sister through school, take my family on holiday. That's where I get the biggest buzz, not buying a pair of £500 shoes.”

“I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They're nowhere. I know they're nowhere and they don't exist, but if nowhere means that's where they are, that's where I want to be.”