Showbiz | Celebrity News I would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice . TV and radio presenter Carol Vorderman has criticised the BBC and its social media guidelines, saying “the people at the top of the BBC – Conservatives – are trying to restrict what people do in their private lives”.
The former Countdown star, 63, left her BBC radio show last year saying she was “not prepared to lose my voice” after the corporation introduced new social media guidelines. Vorderman claims she was “sacked” by the corporation with “no conversation to be had”. She has been vocal in her criticism of the Government on social media and has had several arguments on X, formerly Twitter, with Tory MPs, including last year saying that the public is “ashamed” about then home secretary Suella Braverman’s remarks about homelessness.
Vorderman previously said management had decided she should give up her Saturday-morning show on BBC Radio Wales over a breach of the guidelines and in January this year she joined LBC Radio to host her own Sunday afternoon programme. She told the Radio Times magazine: “The people at the top of the BBC – Conservatives – are trying to restrict what people do in their private lives. It’s an absolute nonsense.
“You have to understand Ofcom rules when you’re on air, which I was abiding by. In fact, I had a light-entertainment show. Showbiz gossip and chat, having a laugh and playi.
