CAROL VORDERMAN might have no problem with multiple division – but can she throw a potato into a golf hole from 20 metres? The former Countdown maths whizz will appear in Taskmaster’s New Year’s Treat, a one-off celebrity special on Channel 4.
Carol is taking on Alex Horne's daft challenges alongside Radio 1 DJ Greg James, Olympic Gold- medal runner Mo Farah, singer Rebecca Lucy Taylor, aka singer-songwriter Self Esteem, and comedian and journalist Amelia Dimoldenberg.
The winner gets the Greg’s Golden Eyebrows trophy, modelled on the Taskmaster himself, Greg Davies. Carol joined Countdown for the very first episode in 1982 when she was in her twenties.
She got the gig after her mum arranged for the then 21-year-old to have an audition for the show after seeing a newspaper ad looking for women with good numerical skills.
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