Carol Vorderman’s Very Modern Love Life

Yes, love a bit of slap bass!
Get down with the hep cats! 🐱

I prefer the word slapper that applies to a Musician. 😬
A funky bass players who likes to ‘slap the bass’.

Slapper

What would have been referred to as a ‘slapped’ ? Private life should be just that. Too much information and no one really wants to know.

Joan Collins has Percy Gibson, presumably she has no need of special friends.

No she's not running the country but listening to her in the week, she seems to think she is. The presenters had to cut her off.

Whitewavemark2

I see that the right wing rags are using this as a stick to beat her with, because she has very publicly been calling out Tory sleaze , with a good deal of following on social media.

The two things are entirely unrelated 🤔
My opinions are my own, I don't read right-wing rags unless directed to a link on GN!

Well done her, if she is doing that.

eazybee

I have seen pictures recently of the late Gina Lollobrigida and Joan Collins. I don't know what they do to themselves, but they both looked good and appeared to be enjoying life. They both have/had a good sense of humour, able to laugh at themselves, and Carol Vorderman has too.
Doesn't bother me what they get up to.

Strangely enough, whilst channel hopping a few nights ago I caught a Joanna Lumley programme in which she chatted to Gina Lollobrigida. It wasn’t a recent programme but wasn’t too long ago, and she looked amazing for her age and led a really interesting life. I must admit that, until I saw the programme I’d forgotten about her and assumed she was long since gone.

Whitewavemark2

I see that the right wing rags are using this as a stick to beat her with, because she has very publicly been calling out Tory sleaze , with a good deal of following on social media.

Ah. Now we have it.

I don't think she needs to 'set an example'. She's not running the country or claiming to be a representative of virtue. What she does in bed and who she does it with is up to her. but assuming that the rest of us wants to be told about it is overstepping, IMO.

I suppose it's fine if the only reports are in gossip magazines that people buy in the knowledge that that's what they are paying for, but it's hardly news.

I have seen pictures recently of the late Gina Lollobrigida and Joan Collins. I don't know what they do to themselves, but they both looked good and appeared to be enjoying life. They both have/had a good sense of humour, able to laugh at themselves, and Carol Vorderman has too.
Doesn't bother me what they get up to.

I see that the right wing rags are using this as a stick to beat her with, because she has very publicly been calling out Tory sleaze , with a good deal of following on social media.

No she didn't GG. However, she implied it. It was during a phone in about people looking for love. She knew exactly what people would think. She is an intelligent woman.

Yes. She can do what she likes, as we all can, but coming on TV and telling people about it is a different matter. It comes across as bragging and 'look how gorgeous I am'. I agree with Fanny. She is setting a bad example.

I am neither for or against Carole Vorderman.

She did not reveal any details of her sex life other than to say she had five special friends

She did not say she had sex with each of them every week, she did not give any intimate details or name her friends.

Of course it’s not a witch hunt. People are not, on the whole, saying that CV shouldn’t have multiple partners, or that she shouldn’t have so much surgery. Just that we don’t want to be told the details of her sex life.

It’s as bad, IMO to say that women on a discussion board shouldn’t express an opinion about whether we are interested in hearing about other people’s sex lives. It’s very different from whispering about the neighbours behind their backs.

Yes Yammy and no one appears on chat shows now unless they are selling something.

I agree Tilly they know what they are up to, self-publicists. Who knows she might be among us and having a good laugh about all our comments. She's still got herself noticed on this site and I'm not getting at you Tilly it was an excellent question to ask.
I watched Graham Norton out of interest last night and they are all the same on there, it is very rare these days that you get someone really interesting.

TillyTrotter

This thread was not intended to be a witch hunt!
It was a genuine interest from me asking why grans think people (Carol and many others) feel the need to broadcast intimate details about their lives.
They know they will get trolled - Carol is certainly intelligent to know that before she spoke out publicly,

I'm wondering what the reaction would be from those who accuse others of a witch hunt if a man, having had extensive surgery to make him look quite different to his previous self, went on TV to tell us about his five special female friends.

Would they say this is wonderful? Well done him?
Or ponder on whether or not he's rather sleazy and so risk being called misandrist?

Yes Tilly

Exactly Tilly

This thread was not intended to be a witch hunt!
It was a genuine interest from me asking why grans think people (Carol and many others) feel the need to broadcast intimate details about their lives.
They know they will get trolled - Carol is certainly intelligent to know that before she spoke out publicly,

It's not a witch hunt. She puts herself out there. She has to expect criticism as well as praise.

Callistemon exactly.

Vorderman is a symptom of the pornofication of our wider society.

The cause of so many problems that we are seeing at the moment (Andrew Tate and his toxic influence; girls thinking that they don’t want to be women; the acceptability of violence towards women during sex ad nauseam)

It should not be deemed acceptable

JPB123

volver

I've realised something about Gransnet this week.

Its just a place where women feel entitled to call other women names, and feel superior to them. Then defend it by saying they asked for it.

What a disappointment.

Totally agree volver, sounds like a witch hunt.

Call it whatever you like.

I will never defend altering one's body and face by such artificial means to the extent Carol has, to conform to a stereotype of what the media - and men - expect.

No-one would criticise or even notice a gentle tweak if that is the only way to manage to continue to work but no-one should have to go to those extremes.
It sends out the wrong messages.

Some people have to have plastic surgery for essential reasons which is quite different.

We'll have to agree to disagree.

If the person concerned goes on national TV to talk about their private lives then it invites debate and consequently people are entitled to express an opinion.