Carol Vorderman ‘snubs offer from GB News’ after quitting BBC

Carol Vorderman, 62, quit the BBC last month, saying she would ‘not be silenced’ by the corporation’s new social media guidelines. Photograph: Dave Hogan/Hogan Media/Shutterstock

Carol Vorderman has disclosed she turned down an approach by the rightwing broadcaster GB News.

The presenter, a fierce critic of the government, left her weekly show on BBC Radio Wales last month, saying she would “not be silenced” by the corporation’s new social media guidelines.