The former Countdown star, 63, delivered the Alternative MacTaggart lecture at the Edinburgh TV Festival on Friday. Former Countdown star Carol Vorderman delivered the Alternative MacTaggart lecture (Yui Mok/PA) Carol Vorderman has said the TV industry is full of “snobbery” and no longer reflects British society, as she accused it of not reaching working class viewers. The former Countdown star, 63, delivered the Alternative MacTaggart lecture at the Edinburgh TV Festival on Friday.
She described herself as having been on thousands of shows over decades, “sacked by the BBC – twice – pain in the arse, lover of parties, post-menopausal”, and said she was standing “in anger and without apology” at the media event. Vorderman said: “Our industry is an industry of snobbery – regional snobbery, class snobbery and educational snobbery – and don’t even get me started on the political issues.” The maths expert, who grew up in poverty in Wales, said “working class people feel they are not represented, their situation is not represented, the lack of opportunities and lack of money and jobs is not represented”.
She says working class people have increasingly turned to social media. We need your consent to load this Social Media content. We use a number of different Social Media outlets to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity.
Vorderman said: “Social media – no longer the new kid, more like the badly.