{"id":83078,"date":"2023-09-09T19:57:03","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T19:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mylifestylemax.com\/?p=83078"},"modified":"2023-09-09T19:57:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T19:57:03","slug":"vorderman-will-keep-criticising-government-even-if-she-loses-tv-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mylifestylemax.com\/celebrities\/vorderman-will-keep-criticising-government-even-if-she-loses-tv-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Vorderman will keep criticising government even if she loses TV work"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Carol Vorderman says she&#8217;ll keep in picking rows with the Government even if it costs her TV jobs<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The veteran presenter recently clashed with Tory chairman Greg Hands<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>TV presenter Carol Vorderman has said that it is &#8216;fine&#8217; if she loses jobs amid her\u00a0 recent campaign of criticising the government on social media.<\/p>\n<p>The 62-year-old former Countdown star has been involved in several arguments on X &#8211; formerly known as\u00a0Twitter\u00a0&#8211; with Tory MPs.<\/p>\n<p>A recent spat with Conservative chairman Greg Hands reportedly saw her delete a number of tweets about him on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>When asked how she feels about criticism from the Tories, Vorderman told The Times on Saturday: &#8216;It doesn&#8217;t bother me&#8230; I&#8217;ll tell you why. I&#8217;m knocking on 63. I&#8217;ve made my money. I&#8217;ve been through it all.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;What&#8217;s the worst that can happen? That I&#8217;ll lose some jobs? Fine by me. Bring it on. They can sling what they like at me.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/09\/15\/75245465-12499111-image-m-92_1694268155548.jpg\" height=\"896\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Carol Vorderman says she is happy to lose work as a result of her Twitter spats with Tories<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/09\/14\/75245029-12499111-image-m-79_1694267225945.jpg\" height=\"865\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The ex-Countdown presenter has recently come to loggerheads with Tory party chairman Greg Hands, who asked her to apologise for posting allegedly defamatory tweets<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/09\/15\/75245187-12499111-image-m-94_1694268184922.jpg\" height=\"731\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Tory party chairman Greg Hands was the target of a number of tweets written by Vorderman, which she has since deleted<\/p>\n<p>Mr Hands had called for the former I&#8217;m A Celebrity&#8230;Get Me Out Of Here! competitor to apologise for posting &#8216;defamatory and damaging&#8217; tweets about his involvement in a lifestyle firm being awarded a \u00a325.8 million personal protective equipment (PPE) contract in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Vorderman appeared to suggest that Mr Hands had provided assistance to a firm that applied for a contract through the\u00a0joint action co-ordination team (JACT), the government&#8217;s official body for making PPE arrangements during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Hands had, in fact, referred an email from the company, Luxe Lifestyle Ltd, to the JACT, without making any kind of endorsement of the company.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>READ MORE: What&#8217;s turned nice Carol Vorderman into a ranting, embittered Twitter troll?: AMANDA PLATELL on how one of the nation&#8217;s favourite broadcasters has become a nasty social media warrior<\/h3>\n<p>Her tweets had also made reference to the so-called &#8216;VIP lane&#8217; that saw some companies&#8217; PPE deals rushed through at the height of the pandemic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The high priority lane procedure for some contracts was later ruled illegal by a high court judge, and firms were forced to pay money back after supplying the NHS with faulty masks and gowns.<\/p>\n<p>On Twitter, Vorderman said: &#8216;While the awarding of his contract was unfortunate, and there remain serious questions about the VIP Lane, I&#8217;m happy to accept Mr Hands&#8217; assurance that his role in the process was simply to refer the approach&#8230; and that there was no impropriety on his part&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Taking to his own Twitter profile, Mr Hands said he &#8216;welcomed&#8217; Vorderman deleting the tweets and &#8216;setting the record straight&#8217; that he had no involvement in awarding PPE contracts.<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8216;These tweets were defamatory and damaging. She should now apologise.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Vorderman has been involved in other rows with Tory MPs including in March, when she called on women&#8217;s minister Maria Caulfield to resign after she could not &#8216;be bothered to turn up&#8217; to a committee hearing about the menopause.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/09\/15\/75245191-12499111-image-a-96_1694268456863.jpg\" height=\"364\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Vorderman was forced into a climbdown over her remarks about Greg Hands this week<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/09\/15\/75245299-12499111-image-a-97_1694268480323.jpg\" height=\"241\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Hands has called on Vorderman to apologise for the remarks<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/09\/15\/75245039-12499111-image-a-95_1694268431195.jpg\" height=\"793\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Vorderman says she will carry on with her social media activity as people &#8216;bloody love&#8217; it<\/p>\n<p>The MP, who is also minister for women&#8217;s health strategy, tweeted that she was &#8216;not a punch bag&#8217; and said anyone who posted &#8216;misleading information&#8217; about her would be blocked on the social media platform.<\/p>\n<h3>READ MORE:\u00a0Carol Vorderman is forced into humiliating climbdown as she deletes tweets claiming Tory MP Greg Hands was involved in granting \u00a325m PPE contract to lifestyle firm\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>Vorderman also told the newspaper that people of all ages say they &#8216;bloody love&#8217; what she does when they meet her in public.<\/p>\n<p>She also said: &#8216;I think even the people who say the Tories are bloody marvellous know it&#8217;s not true.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Some coronavirus-related contracts were put in a &#8216;VIP lane&#8217; when the Government was struggling to buy protective equipment during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>A Public Accounts Committee found in July that the Government had a &#8216;rushed&#8217; approach to buying personal protective equipment (PPE) which resembled &#8216;panic buying&#8217; but was unable to &#8216;comprehensively conclude&#8217; that emails from Tory peers led to businesses being treated differently.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;They tried to persuade us we weren&#8217;t bothered about Partygate, and we were bothered and are not forgetting it,&#8217; Vorderman said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;And also the &#8216;VIP lane&#8217; is massively emotional, as it bloody well should be.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Johnny Mercer has also had several public arguments with Vorderman.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister for Veterans&#8217; Affairs has described Vorderman as a &#8216;deeply unpleasant person&#8217; on the social media site, while she has posted a number critical remarks about Mr Mercer&#8217;s performance as a minister.<\/p>\n<p>Vorderman was announced more than a decade ago by Michael Gove as the head of maths taskforce and appeared before the Women and Equalities Committee to talk about menopause.<\/p>\n<p>She has appeared on ITV&#8217;s Loose Women, This Morning and Lorraine along with this year being on I&#8217;m A Celebrity&#8230; South Africa and hosting a BBC Radio Wales show.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-12499111\/Carol-Vorderman-picking-rows-Government-jobs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carol Vorderman says she&#8217;ll keep in picking rows with the Government even if it costs her TV jobs The veteran<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3373],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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