The last time I interviewed a ‘queenager’ in leather trousers it was Theresa May in Downing Street – and all hell broke loose . Today it ispin-up, who sashays into the Bloomsbury Hotel in skintight leather strides, her hour-glass curves accessorised with a wasp-waisted patent belt, high-heeled black boots and glittery sweater. Last month, Vorderman, 63, was named as one of the people viewers of BBC’sshow would most like to see as Prime Minister...
She sits back and stirs three lumps of brown sugar into her latte, confiding, ‘I love being this age. I just don’t give a crap. I mean, even that Shaun Bailey nonsense – I just say, “How dare you!” on behalf of women everywhere.’ In person, Vorderman is terrific, fizzing fun – down to earth, friendly and fiercely clever. ‘I have always been riotous,’ she giggles. ‘They had to calm me down. I was out in nightclubs at 15 in Rhyl, North Wales, where I grew up in abject poverty with my single mum.’ Her Dutch father left when she was a baby – she met him for the first time when she was 42.
‘I’ve had worse insults than his before. He’s the one with the problem, not me,’ she says. Laughing that when she first got the job onin the 1980s she was dubbed ‘the vital statistician’, a play on the ‘vital statistics that dolly birds – as female presenters on telly were known as then – were expected to have’.
I ask if she looks the way she does because she likes the attention. She pauses. ‘I hadn’t thought of it like that but yes – I’m an extrovert and a social animal. I’m a bit outrageous, always have been.’
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