Carol Vorderman has vowed to “cause a commotion” after joining LBC two months after quitting her weekly BBC Radio Wales show because of the corporation’s new social media guidelines.
LBC radio announced on Thursday that Vorderman would host her own weekly Sunday afternoon show from 4pm to 7pm, starting later this month.
Vorderman, who has worked on the station as a guest host in recent weeks, said she was delighted to join LBC alongside a “phenomenal stable of powerful voices”, including Nick Ferrari, James O’Brien, Shelagh Fogarty and Andrew Marr.
“Live radio is an incredibly important platform for news, so I’m looking forward to returning to a medium that I love.”
She assured fans of her outspoken manner that she would not shy away from speaking her mind.
“On Sunday afternoon, I’ll be using my voice – as you might expect – to cause a commotion,” she said. “I won’t be shy to say things that others won’t and I’ll hold the corrupt to account without fear or favour.”
LBC said the show would be “packed with opinion and intelligent debate” and would feature Vorderman “tackling the biggest stories and issues that matter to LBC’s audience across the UK”.
When she left the BBC in November she said she respected its social media guidelines but was “not prepared to lose my voice on social media, change who I am, or lose the ability to express the strong beliefs I hold about the political turmoil this country finds itself in”.
Vorderman has been one of this government’s fiercest critics, referring to it at one point as “a lying bunch of greedy, corrupt, destructive, hateful, divisive, gaslighting crooks”.
In an interview with the Guardian last month she encouraged people to vote tactically in the next election in order to change the government. “I honestly believe – I know – that we can reduce [the Conservatives] to 70 members of parliament or less at the next election,” she said.
“Seventy-four per cent of voters have said they will use tactical voting to actively reduce the number of Tory MPs. So polls are bad for them, but they’re not as bad as it will be on the night. A bonfire of their vanities. Yes! I want it so that it would take at least a generation for them to regroup.”
