{"id":68154,"date":"2023-11-15T08:19:41","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T08:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/talkcelnews.com\/?p=68154"},"modified":"2023-11-15T08:19:41","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T08:19:41","slug":"carol-vorderman-shares-rare-family-insight-for-remembrance-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/talkcelnews.com\/celebrities\/carol-vorderman-shares-rare-family-insight-for-remembrance-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Carol Vorderman shares rare family insight for Remembrance Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carol Vorderman on family importance of Remembrance Sunday<\/h3>\n

Former Countdown presenter Carol Vorderman has offered a rare insight into her family\u2019s experience with war as people gather together for Remembrance Day.<\/p>\n

The podcast host, 62, took to Instagram to share the moving story in view of her 442,000 followers today.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy Remembrance Sunday is important to my family,\u201d she began.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBorn in 1960, my generation grew up with parents and grandparents who had fought and suffered in one or both World Wars. Everyone had suffered. Remembrance was tremendously important.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMine is a story of my 2 fathers who fought on opposite sides in WW2, both welcomed in this country, one as a Prisoner of War.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cI know, because, of how they were treated that we fundamentally are kind-hearted, decent, welcoming, peace loving people, and nothing will ever persuade me otherwise.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The star then went on to explain in more detail that the \u201ctwo fathers\u201d she referred to were her birth father and beloved Italian stepfather.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy Grandad in Wales (we say Taid in Welsh) had fought as a young man in the trenches in World War 1. He\u2019d suffered the effects of mustard gas,\u201d she explained.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWorld War 2 came along. My 2 \u2018fathers\u2019 fought on opposite sides in WW2.<\/span><\/p>\n

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