Carol Vorderman has hit out more than 20 years after she received "vitriol" for wearing a revealing blue dress to the BAFTAs.
The 60-year-old former Countdown presenter has now broken her silence over the controversial outfit. Speaking to The NetMums Podcast, mum-of-two Carol said she has "always rebelled".
Carol said: "When I was 39, not my grandmother, not my mother, it was the 21st Century it was the year 2000... I went to the BAFTAs wearing a short dress, not a micro skirt, they made a Kilroy Show on the BBC and they flew in this dress in from Paris.
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"It was an Ingaro dress, and the dress arrived and this huge debate in the studio was not is this a nice dress, but should a woman age 39 wear a dress above the knee! Oh the vitriol was incredible."
Carol also opened up about being "selfish". She continued: "Be a bit selfish, or what we’re told is selfish, it's not selfish at all. It’s just that it’s been ingrained in women’s heads that looking after yourself a bit or having a bit of time for me is selfish".
The podcast appearance comes after Carol recently said she's breaking a relationship taboo by having multiple "special friends" instead of one partner.
The presenter said her generation was apprehensive about discussing their sexuality and "played by a rulebook" whereas today's young people embrace it. Referencing her own dating history, Carol admitted the ways of the past don't speak to her anymore.
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