Carol Vorderman has spoken candidly over the years about her “special friends” and her dating life.
Back in 2023, in a no-holds-barred interview, the star teased she enjoys a “freer” way of dating.
“It’s your choice if you have a boyfriend or you don’t,” Carol – on Cooking With The Stars tonight (July 30) – explained to The Sun‘s Fabulous magazine.
Carol Vorderman on ‘special friends’
Carol vented her frustrations at women having to adhere to a certain standard of wanting to find ‘the one’.
She continued that she enjoys a series of no-string attached relationships with multiple men.
I’m happy living my life that way.
“I might have a boyfriend who only lasts a few months,” Carol explained. “I call them ‘special friends’. People may have other terms for them.”
She chose to scrimp on the more salacious details, but she teased one of her flings had been ongoing for 11 years. Another regular partners of hers lives in the States.
Is Carol in a relationship?
But Carol was very specific about what sort of person she has her eye out for, and said that she only looks for single men as she doesn’t want to cause heartbreak and upset.
Carol added: “I’m happy living my life that way. The people involved are also very happy about it. That’s between us, it’s nothing at all to do with anybody else.”
Carol has previously been married twice before. She first married at the age of 24, to a Royal Navy officer, but the marriage only lasted a year.
The former Countdown presenter then married management consultant Patrick King, in 1990. The pair, who share two children together, separated in 2000.
Carol has been particularly sex-positive of late.
During an appearance on Michelle Visage’s podcast, Rule Breakers, she made a couple of confessions about her love life.
Revealing she was seeing five men, she emphatically added that she was not in a relationship.
She did say that she was “in a happy place” – and that everyone involved is single.
Read more: This Morning: Carol Vorderman stuns fans with appearance as she addresses her behaviour
Cooking With The Stars is on ITV1 at 8pm on Tuesday (July 30).
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