Former Countdown star and TV host Carol Vorderman took to Twitter in tears yesterday to share with her fans an incident that had occurred outside her home.
Carol, 59, who lives in Bristol, was leaving her house to travel to Cardiff to do her radio show for BBC Radio Wales when she says the incident happened.
Describing what happened for her followers on Twitter, the star first sent a series of three tweets, before following up with a video in which she was visibly upset and shaken and told the camera: ‘It’s really upset me.’
What happened to Carol Vorderman?
On Saturday 6 June, Carol tweeted her 448,600 followers to say that two paparazzi had been waiting outside her front door in the morning and had ‘harassed’ her.
She described herself as having been ‘scared’ by the incident and implored the papers who might buy the photos from the paparazzi in question not to use the photos because that would: ‘merely perpetuate their income and they will harass me more’.
‘So when I walked outside of my front door this morning I was greeted by two not nice paparazzi….who had turned up at the BBC last week and I went in by a side door to avoid them, so they decided to harass me at home instead,’ Carol said in her first tweet about the incident. ‘I’ve filmed them and might post later.’
She described herself as having been ‘scared’ by the incident and implored the papers who might buy the photos from the paparazzi in question not to use the photos because that would: ‘merely perpetuate their income and they will harass me more’.
‘So when I walked outside of my front door this morning I was greeted by two not nice paparazzi….who had turned up at the BBC last week and I went in by a side door to avoid them, so they decided to harass me at home instead,’ Carol said in her first tweet about the incident. ‘I’ve filmed them and might post later.’
‘And so I’m asking all newspapers never to use the shots from this morning… if you do, then you are merely perpetuating their income and they will harass me more. Thank you.’