Carol Vorderman’s rarely seen family revealed including brother she hasn’t seen in TWO years
CAROL Vorderman is set to reunite with her older brother Anton after two years apart.
The ex-Countdown star, 60, admitted a reunion was long overdue as she opened up about her family and being a single mum in a rare interview.
Excited Carol said Anton, 68, will join her at the Pride of Britain awards next month along with her two kids, Cameron, 25, and Katie, 29.
Asked who she’ll take along to the red carpet event – which she will host with Diversity star Ashley Banjo – the celeb revealed: “My brother Anton, who I haven’t seen for two years.
“He was living in Holland then he went over to Thailand, as he has lung problems. But then he got caught out there due to the pandemic. I’m excited to see him.”
The maths whizz said it will be a celebratory affair her high-achieving children by her side.
Carol, who split from their dad Patrick King in 2000, previously told how her son was branded “unteachable” with ADHD before going on to earn a master’s degree.
But her boy last month secured his qualification in animation and visual effects at Dundee Uni.
She said about Cameron: “I am. He is quite extraordinary. He never thought he’d achieve that as he was told he would never amount to anything significant. Society almost tells you that you should be a little ashamed of your children having these issues – well, I say b******s to that!”
Meanwhile, the keen hiker — twice voted Rear Of The Year — praised her eldest Katie, 29, for going on to achieve her doctorate and PHD.
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She revealed in an interview with OK! magazine: “She’s super-bright.
“I think she wants to work in the space industry but I wouldn’t want to put words in her mouth! It’s wonderful to see your kids flourish.
“I was a single parent and I was looking after them and my elderly mother with cancer, so there’s been a tough few years.
“But now we’re in the celebratory years!”
Katie was born two months premature and said the NHS saved her daughter’s life thanks to their selfless bravery.
She told The Sun last year: “Everyone working for the NHS is risking their life on a daily basis at the moment.
“And in a number of cases we have tragically already seen people die while just doing their jobs, which is unbelievably sad.
“I have always been a champion of our health service because not only have they saved my life twice, they also saved my mum, brother and daughter.
“I nearly died as a toddler and then in 2004 had excruciating gallbladder pain which turned into sepsis.
“I was rushed to hospital in an ambulance and later told that I was six hours from death.
“My brother was born with a cleft palette and my mum Jean, was three times diagnosed with cancer before she eventually died aged 88.
“So in her case, the doctors not only saved her life, they constantly extended it.”
She went on: “My daughter was also born two months premature, and again it was the NHS who treated us and saved her.
“I have so much to be eternally grateful for.”
Cambridge graduate Carol, who was a huge hit with fans while appearing in the hit Channel 4 game show from 1982 until 2008, was herself raised by her mum Jean and brother Anton after her dad abandoned her.
Anton was eight years older than Carol and she recalled how she called him ‘my little daddy’ because their father had abandoned her but, “not my brother or sister”
She said: “He refused to meet me from when I was two weeks old, I don’t know why, still to this day.”
She added: “My brother was born in the 1950s with severe cleft lip and palate and over the course of his life had 24 operations on his face.
“We were very poor, (Anton) was always kind and yet he suffered a lot of abuse because of how he looked and he grew and still is one of the kindest, most generous, funny, loving, successful people I’ve ever known.
“He is always laughing, he loves people, everybody loves my brother.”
The Pride of Britain awards ceremony will air on ITV on November 4.
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