Former Countdown star Carol Vorderman has said that she is no longer monogamous and now enjoys living a 'freer' life.
The 61-year-old has said she doesn't believe in 'The One', but instead believes in having multiple partners.
Speaking on ITV's This Morning on Friday 7 October, she said: "Our mothers told us that we should marry when we were still 18 or 19 or 20, so we grew up with that convention that you should find one partner for life. My view is not quite like that.
"Half of first marriages end in divorce, and nearly three quarters of second marriages end in divorce. So I prefer to live my life in chapters."
The star has been married twice before. She married first husband Christopher Mather in 1985, but they divorced in 1986 after just a year of marriage. Carol next married husband Patrick King in 1990, but the pair divorced in 2020. The pair share two children; Katie King, 31, and Cameron King, 25.
She added: "I live my life in chapters, and you said and this chapter since I was about 50. So for the last decade or so, I've lived a life which is much freer.
"I've never felt freer. So I have ignored the looking for one person and I have a number of what I've called 'special friends'."
The TV star, who used to front Channel 4 's Countdown before being replaced by Rachel Riley, explained that she doesn't want to get married again.
She revealed: "You know, I don't really want to marry again. I don't really want to live with a man again. Have to look after him all the time. But this is a time to break this nonsense taboo, which is a person should only be looking for one other person that satisfies everything in their life. That's hell."
Speaking alongside Gyles Brandreth on the daytime show, she discussed her own relationships and her current partners: "They don't know each other, but they know about it. It's a very honest relationship. One of them has gone on for many more years than my marriage. Yeah, it's over 10 years. Another is 7. He's an astronaut. He rang me from the space station."
She added: "They're not looking for love, they'e looking for companionship, looking for friendship, it may turn into love. The age is really immaterial, but my experience suggests that somebody roughly in your age bracket. You have more in common."
She offered advice for viewers thinking about their own love life, as she urged: "Go with someone who makes your heart sing babes. Even if it's only for an occasional weekend. You do you!"
