Carol Vorderman has opened up about her non-monogamous lifestyle and revealed she has five boyfriends, whom she's aptly nicknamed her 'special friends'.
The maths whizz enjoys having an open love life and likes dating multiple partners at once. The 62-year-old has previously said she isn't looking to settle down into a marriage again, and has worked out her own dating 'system' in recent years.
Appearing on Michelle Visage's latest Rule Breakers, she discussed the 'system' she put in place for the past decade. When asked if she is in an official relationship, Carol gasped: "No!" Before adding: "I'm having the best time.
"I've spoken about this once. I have a system which I've had for 10 years. They're called 'special friends'."
She continued: "I spoke a couple of months ago about having 'special friends' and it was like, again, the world had fallen in for some people but actually what I found was there was an awful lot of women who said 'I'd never thought about it like this'."
The Countdown star went on to explain that she's been in 'long-term relationships, if you like' with the special friends. "One's 11 years, one's seven years, you know everyone is single. It's a happy place. I hasten to add I'm not into one night stands," Carol said.
"The language around a woman of my generation is that if you had more than one partner when you got married you were this you were that.
"Everything was derogatory about a woman, that was the environment I was growing up in. It was like 'she's desperate', everything was judgmental."
Carol first tied the knot at 24 years old to Christopher Mather, a Royal Navy officer, but the pair split after just 12 months together.
She then wed management consultant Patrick King in 1990 at age 30, with the couple welcoming two children into the world together before going their separate ways in 2000.
"I'm a great believer in chapters of my life, and some are extended chapters and some aren't," Carol continued when offering her romantic advice to viewers. "I now, the last ten years or so, live a very much freer life where I have special friends and I am not looking for one person."
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