Carol Vorderman has revealed she no longer sunbathes after discovering precancerous skin cells. The 62-year-old former Countdown star shared the health scare while answering fan questions on Instagram Stories on Thursday, ahead of her upcoming appearance on I'm A Celebrity South Africa.
Explaining why she now uses fake tan, Vorderman said: “Well I don’t sunbathe anymore or rather I choose not to because I’ve had you know, little pre-cancerous skin thingy, biopsy thingies, all of that. So, I do fake tans.” She added that she had applied fake tan the previous night, hoping it would last.
Although Vorderman never had skin cancer, figures released last year show skin cancer cases have hit a record level in England, with around one in five people affected during their lifetime. There were 224,000 skin cancers recorded in England in 2019, and more than 1.4 million between 2013 and 2019, according to NHS Digital and the British Association of Dermatologists. This represents a 26 per cent rise in recorded cases from 177,677 in 2013.
Vorderman's video comes as viewers prepare to watch her return to the jungle for I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! South Africa. She originally appeared on the show in 2015, finishing eighth. The spin-off launches on ITV1 on Monday 24th April at 9pm.
