'''Carol Vorderman''' is a British [[television presenter]]. She first became famous on a [[game show]] called ''Countdown''; her role on the show was to pick randomly-chosen letters and numbers for the contestants to play the games with, and also to provide a solution to the numbers game if the contestants were unable to do so. As a result of the latter duty, Vorderman became associated with [[mathematics]] in the British popular consciousness, becoming "the stupid person's clever person" (before that mantle was arguably taken by the flamboyant actor and dilettante [[Stephen Fry]]).
Clever positioning won Vorderman a series of other jobs such as presenting the technology show ''Tomorrow's World'', presenting coverage of televized televised [[chess]], and advertising products with faux-scientific [[health]] benefits such as a particular brand of [[margarine]].
Vorderman's reputation for intelligence is not entirely undeserved, since she does have an [[engineering]] degree from [[Cambridge University]]. However, she has rarely had any special expertise in the subject matter of the more heavyweight programs she has been involved with, being chosen mainly to bring a superficial patina of nebulous intellectual credibility that plays well with mass audiences.
[[Category:Television Personalities]]