Carol Jean Vorderman, born on the 24th of December on 1960 in Bedford, Bedfordshire, is the youngest among 3 children of Dutch father Anton ‘Tony’ Vorderman and Welsh mother Edwina Jean. Vorderman’s parents decided to separate when she was just 3 weeks old after which she moved back to her home town Prestatyn, North Wales with her mother and siblings, Anton and Trixie.