Carol Vorderman looks elegant in white and black dress as she attends Best For Britain event

Carol Vordeman cut an elegant figure as she attended the Best For Britain press conference on Wednesday. The former Countdown presenter, 62, who lives in Bristol, donned a chic white dress with black leather panels teamed with black shoes.

The conference was organised by the ‘cross-party advocacy group upholding internationalist values’ to unveil the results of their first major seat-level MRP poll. Carol, who is an avid supporter of the movement, wore her hair in a relaxed style while keeping her make-up relatively subtle.

Posting on Twitter, Carol wrote: “On my way to press launch @BestForBritain. Prof John Curtice and I will be presenting the first results to statistically show what would happen if GE took place next month after the boundary changes. I’m talking #TacticalVoting which will be critical.”

After the event she took to Instagram to tease that she would be sharing her thoughts on the radio.  She said: “I’ve just finished the press conference and now I am off to Global Radio to talk to the wonderful James O’Brien live on LBC from 12:30pm.”

The ‘I’m A Celebrity’ star went on to talk to James about her chaotic but loving upbringing and her new life as “the country’s most vociferous anti-corruption crusader”. James began the interview confessing that he thought Carol had: “arrived on the telly so young. I sort of thought that you had experienced the model school girl life, head of the class and straight to Cambridge.”

Carol was quick to dampen this stereotype by telling him that her father had abandoned her just weeks after she was born. Carol said that after she was born her father confessed that he’d been having an affair with a 16-year-old girl. Carol revealed  that her mother took all three siblings back to Wales and stressed that her life was far from perfect. She said: “My brother had been born with a severe cleft lip so he couldn’t even say the alphabet.” She added: “When you are born poor you don’t know anything else.”

Carol confessed that she shared a bed until she was nine with her mum, admitting: “We never had toys, never had gifts and we just grew up on hand-me-downs.”