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Carol Vorderman...

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CurlewKate · 06/01/2024 13:35

Is she anyone else's new hero?

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beergiggles · 13/06/2024 12:48

LandPuff · 13/06/2024 12:38

That said, I haven’t got anything against her, but I would hardly say a hero. What has she actually done?

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LandPuff · 13/06/2024 12:49

Yes @H34th what you get is a completely blank, flat look that would rival any geisha, minus the artistic element and with the addition of expense, and surgical and other risks. TOWIE is a good example of this. Loose women also; I saw it the other day and the facilitator who must be in her 40s looked about 26. Fine you might say, except she looked almost completely expressionless and her appearance defied and denied her intelligence, her personality, and experience of life. Dreadful.

ssd · 13/06/2024 12:53

Lou7171 · 13/06/2024 12:45

She's brilliant. Stop focusing on her looks ffs! Read an early 00s edition of Heat magazine if that's what you're interested in.

Totally agree. All this talk about her looks ffs whats wrong with some of you?? Listen to what she says not how shes looking.

ssd · 13/06/2024 12:54

Probably tory voters here determined to talk about how she looks because they can't bare to listen to the truth about their government.

OriginalUsername2 · 13/06/2024 13:34

ssd · 13/06/2024 12:53

Totally agree. All this talk about her looks ffs whats wrong with some of you?? Listen to what she says not how shes looking.

Pretend you can’t see what you can see. Sounds reasonable.

Frasers · 13/06/2024 13:47

What’s she done, I can’t see anything.

i really don’t think she looks amazing, I find it very sad when a woman undertakes a lot of surgery like this.

Frasers · 13/06/2024 13:49

ssd · 13/06/2024 12:53

Totally agree. All this talk about her looks ffs whats wrong with some of you?? Listen to what she says not how shes looking.

No, we won’t, what’s wrong with you. When a woman undergoes brutal surgery to try to fit into some man made idea of the ideal woman, it needs talking about .

we don’t just get to take issue with young women plumping their faces and bodies up , and give older women a pass.

ssd · 13/06/2024 13:52

Its up to her how she looks @Frasers . Her money her choice her decisions.

Have you listened to anything she's said or written recently?

Frasers · 13/06/2024 13:55

ssd · 13/06/2024 13:52

Its up to her how she looks @Frasers . Her money her choice her decisions.

Have you listened to anything she's said or written recently?

No one said it wasn’t her choice. But people are telling, no demanding, other people ignore what she’s had done to herself. The answer is no.

Cristinespristine · 13/06/2024 14:01

I think she’s a trans ally (I prepare to be corrected) so no, if that’s the case I don’t respect any woman who thinks men are women and deserve our rights!

ssd · 13/06/2024 14:13

Frasers · 13/06/2024 13:55

No one said it wasn’t her choice. But people are telling, no demanding, other people ignore what she’s had done to herself. The answer is no.

Ok you win. Let's not discuss her criticism of the Conservative government and focus on her boobs. Or face. Or bum.

You choose?

ssd · 13/06/2024 14:15

Cristinespristine · 13/06/2024 14:01

I think she’s a trans ally (I prepare to be corrected) so no, if that’s the case I don’t respect any woman who thinks men are women and deserve our rights!

No, she isnt a protector of woman, unlike Sunak...or Johnson...

Frasers · 13/06/2024 14:17

ssd · 13/06/2024 14:13

Ok you win. Let's not discuss her criticism of the Conservative government and focus on her boobs. Or face. Or bum.

You choose?

You can do both, most of us can multi task. Well women can.

Moonlitwalk · 13/06/2024 14:20

I bloody love her! who cares if she's had some cosmetic surgery?- so have most of the women in media. Its her body, her money, her choice.

I think she's fab and she seems like she'd be fun to hang out with. I care more about that than how people choose to look.

CalicoPusscat · 13/06/2024 14:23

Not sure what to make of her

StaySpicy · 13/06/2024 14:33

Can I draw attention to her website - stopthetories

Put in your postcode and it shows you how your vote can be used to help keep the Tories down. It'll be updating nearer to election day.

Benjina · 13/06/2024 14:50

I think it's absolutely awesome that a highly intelligent, well-informed woman is speaking out and using her platform the way she does. She's an icon.

I also love her appearance (since apparently it's compulsory to have an opinion on her appearance), for two reasons:

  1. It's the appearance she's chosen and she can do whatever the fuck she likes
  1. It's so common for lazy men to put down articulate women on the grounds that they (allegedly) don't find the women attractive. Like, yeah, but your opinion is worth nothing because I wouldn't shag you. I like the fact that Vorderman can presumably sidestep this cogent and intellectually rigorous argument via the fact that they would, in fact, definitely shag her. I realise that her appearance will inevitably still be used against her in some way (as a woman in the media), but I like how angry it makes some men to hear intelligent arguments that they disagree with coming out of a pretty face.
ssd · 13/06/2024 15:04

Frasers · 13/06/2024 14:17

You can do both, most of us can multi task. Well women can.

Pleased to hear it.

ISeriouslyDoubtIt · 13/06/2024 15:16

Sue152 · 12/06/2024 13:36

I wonder where she gets her energy - or why she's so bothered about looking young and perky, but probably being in the media does that to you.

She's presumably obsessed by looking like a cartoonish idea of what a "sexy" woman is because she's openly admitted to having concurrent sexual relationships with 5 or 7 men( can't remember the exact number). I'm put off anyone who behaves like that, male or female, in the public eye or not.

Jentefieldroamer · 13/06/2024 15:16

I love her!
Great inspiration how to vote tactically.

VolvoFan · 13/06/2024 15:41

I used to like her. I always liked her when she was on Countdown and How 2. She lost her appeal when she got into politics, like most people do.

taxguru · 13/06/2024 15:45

Was never really bothered about her either way, but recently really liking her, especially after she devoted around an hour of her show to the 3 million that Rishi excluded from Covid support. She wasn't afraid of highlighting the injustice and also did a pretty good job of researching the subject so she could talk authoritatively about it (which is more than mainstream media and Labour could be bothered to do). I'm a convert and aim to listen more to her in future.

taxguru · 13/06/2024 15:46

VolvoFan · 13/06/2024 15:41

I used to like her. I always liked her when she was on Countdown and How 2. She lost her appeal when she got into politics, like most people do.

I think the opposite actually. Never took to her on Countdown, but now she's found a platform to actually use her brain rather than her looks!

ZazieBeth · 13/06/2024 15:48

She’s a woman on a mission at the moment, and has been for a while. Love it.

TonTonMacoute · 13/06/2024 15:59

Hero? Carol Vorderman? Christ no.

Attention seeking mediocre tv person. She is more intelligent than many tv folk, but that particular bar is not set punishingly high.

I cannot think of a single issue on which I would seek her opinion, not even life insurance policies.

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