Do The Numbers: More Countdown Auditions, With The Telegraph And BBC
AUDITIONS for the person to replace Carol Vorderman as the nation’s favourite TV brain box move on to day 4:
Vorderman, who is reported to earn in the region of £900,000 a year from the show, announced she was leaving on Friday.
Vorderman’s agent said on Saturday that the star felt forced to step down from the show when she was told to take a 90% pay cut from a salary understood to be in the region of £1m.
NICOLE MARTIN (Telegraph)
Carol Vorderman, who announced that she was quitting the Channel 4 show after being told to leave or have her reputed £1 million-a-year salary cut by 90 per cent
EDITORIAL (Telegraph)
Ms Vorderman, whose salary has been variously reported to be between £1million and £3million-a-year,
Posted: 31st, July 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Celebrities, Money, TV & Radio Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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July 31st, 2008 at 5:51 pm
Actually I have heard, correct me if I am wrong, that the people in Dictionary Corner have ear pieces connected to somebody on a computer so the suggestion that the host(est) is guided by a computer is not without precident.
July 31st, 2008 at 4:23 pm
Talent, well there’s talent and then there’s talent. Although the problems she solves are none deterministic in nature it would not be beyond the wit of a decent programmer skilled in perhaps genetic programming (that’s what I did in a previous life) to replace her with a computer. Mind you like watching a chess computer compared to watching a grand master it probably wouldn’t be quite so entertaining.
July 31st, 2008 at 3:47 pm
if TV bods can pay Wossy £18m for the sort of below-average drivel he comes out with these days, how come they baulk at paying Carol Vordermann, someone with real talent…?
July 31st, 2008 at 3:46 pm
they’ll be sorry - in all seriousness, she WAS Countdown…