Carol Vorderman "does not want to be in love" and wouldn't be jealous if one of her "special friends" had another sexual partner.
Carol Vorderman wouldn't be 'jealous' of her 'special friends' having partners
The 62-year-old TV star - who has children Katie, 32, and Cameron, 26, with ex-husband Patrick King, but was also previously married to Christopher Mather - revealed last year that she has a circle of "special friends" as opposed to looking for one person to "fulfil all [her] needs", and has now insisted that she does not feel any jealousy towards them potentially having other partners "as long as you're all honest and have a good time."
She told The Mail on Sunday's You magazine: "One's been a friend for 11 years, one for seven. My kids know most of them. I'm not a jealous person and I'm happy when my friends are happy, whether they are "special friends" or not. The goal of my life is to be happy, not to be in love. I just find people interesting and life interesting."
The former 'Countdown' star is now at a stage in her life where she can "choose" to partake in the bits she enjoys in a way she was unable to 30 years ago.
She said: "And you can get to a stage where you choose which bits you enjoy. You can't in your 30s because you're making your way in your career, you're beholden to bosses and all those sorts of things. But in your 60s..."
Towards the end of last year, the former 'Loose Women' anchor explained that she has "ignored" the societal construct of monogamy because she believes it is "unrealistic" to expect one person to fulfil every need of another.
Speaking on 'This Morning', she said: "I'm nearly 62 now and our mothers told us that we should marry when we were 18 or 19 years of age, so we grew up with this convention that we should find one partner for life and all the good fairy tales tell you that they married and lived happily ever after.
"My view is not quite like that. If people do have a very happy and long marriage, that is wonderful. Congratulations. But the fact is that half of marriages in divorce and almost three-quarters of marriage end in divorce. So I prefer to live my life - and people should speak about it in this way - in chapters. You try to have happy chapters and I think that's what you're looking for next.
"I have ignored looking for one person. I have special friends. It's not realistic to expect one person to fulfil all your needs. The younger generation has a much freer approach to sexuality.
"After sexuality, the second most popular is bisexuality. But my generation couldn't talk about that.
"It's a taboo that particularly applies to women of age 60 plus, we were taught that we should marry who should look after us. Now the vast majority of women work. This is a time to break the nonsense taboo that every person should be looking for one other person that satisfies everything in their life. That's one hell of a pressure."
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