Carol Vorderman: Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?

Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?

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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

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Recorded Carol Vorderman said elsewhere, not written here

My aeroplane, a Diamond DA42. It’s a twin-engine aircraft and I bought her brand new to fly around the world solo. Very sadly my mum was diagnosed with terminal cancer about six weeks before I was due to take off, in May 2017, and she died early June. After that, I lost interest in doing it.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 March 2026 source ↗

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Arnold Schwarzenegger

I am a major shoe queen.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2003 source ↗

Shane MacGowan Irish singer-songwriter

I had this idiotic manager for a while who got me an Armani suit and then got the money off me.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 December 2021 source ↗

Tony Christie

Around 1972, I bought a Rolls-Royce to treat myself after finally achieving success. The year before, I had three hits: Las Vegas, I Did What I Did for Maria and Amarillo.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 January 2024 source ↗

Dominic Cooper English actor

My Austin Healey.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 August 2017 source ↗

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Question When were you happiest? Time & hindsight

I was happiest in every aspect of my life in the 1990s, when I was married to Paddy [King, a management consultant] and we had the two children and my mum lived with us, and Countdown was the biggest show on Channel 4.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 March 2026 source ↗