S10 EP6: Carol Vorderman (Video Edition)

Alan Carr's 'Life's a Beach'

Keep It Light Media

Comedy, Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews

4.8 • 6.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Carol Vorderman joins Captain Carr on Life’s a Beach and it’s exactly as chaotic as you’d hope. From flying her own plane across Europe, to swimming with great white sharks and holidaying with Annie Lennox and Ainsley Harriott. She tells Alan gets an exclusive on why she might run for Prime Minister, we hear about her sunbathing in space, the party she drove Alan to dressed as Cher, and why a tiny plane called Mildred meant so much to her. Plus: bingo on holiday, strip chess, and Italian hotel recommendations. Fasten your seatbelts! Watch Carol on Celebrity Puzzling, weeknights at 7pm, Channel 5. 00:00 Intro: Alan welcomes Carol aboard “Alan Air” 00:40 Carol flying Alan in her plane Mildred 01:30 Flying across Europe and landing behind jumbo jets 02:12 Alan remembers meeting Carol on Countdown 03:20 Driving to Noel Edmonds’ party dressed as Cher 04:10 Celebrity Stars In Their Eyes memories 06:06 Celebrity Puzzling and quiz show chaos 07:35 Sudoku, puzzles and the intelligence chat 08:09 Holiday bingo and gay bingo 08:42 Strip chess and Alan’s new show idea 10:10 Holidays growing up in Rhyl and caravan trips 11:03 Supercars and terrifying a sexist cameraman 12:58 Alan suggests Carol could be a dominatrix 13:20 Carol and the three men in her life 14:23 Astronaut friends and sending photos to space 15:26 Her daughter launching medical experiments into space 16:45 Would Carol actually go to space? 17:18 Alan’s romantic trip to Lake Garda thanks to Carol 18:16 Richard Whiteley spraying himself with home fragrance 20:16 Swimming with great white sharks in South Africa 23:26 Adventurous food on holiday 24:43 Grace Jones watching Countdown, loves Carol’s mum 25:25 Holiday with Annie Lennox and Ainsley Harriott 27:40 Why she prefers city breaks and Florence 28:19 Could Carol become Prime Minister? 29:10 Quick-fire travel questions 30:30 Final goodbyes #LifesABeach #AlanCarr #CarolVorderman #Podcast #TravelPodcast #CelebrityTravel #FlyingPlanes #SharkDiving #AdventureTravel #HolidayStories #TVLegends #BritishTV (2) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.3	So this is on your wish list to be Prime Minister, astronaut and a dominatrix.
0:40.3	That's all you want.
0:41.8	Nothing weird about me.
0:43.1	No, no, no, no.
0:44.6	Look who we've got on board, Alanair.
0:46.9	It's Carol Vortem.
0:48.3	Hello, Carol.
0:49.2	Hello, gorgeous.
0:50.3	Oh, listen, what's it like me flying you around?
0:53.2	Because I've actually been on your plane. Yes, you have. Yes. It didn't exactly have lots of rows in it, did it? No. Or refreshments. No, no, no. What would you describe that plane? It was quite small, but it had a lot of force, didn't it? It did, yeah. Force, good work. Yes, yeah. Well, we flew you, didn't we? Yeah. You and someone. And then I was living with a red arrow at the time. Yeah. And then, like you do. As you do. And then he said, let's go to this air show, the world's biggest military air show. And you said, oh, I'll come to that. Yeah, yeah. But as you were flying it, though, you were sort of just looking at an app on your phone, which didn't fill me with that much confidence. I thought, please tell me she's flying this and not ordering a deliver room. I'm not sure, actually. But it was good day. Yeah, where's your plane now? Have you you sold it? I sold her I got a bigger one And then I sold her Last year Oh how did you feel about that? I felt really sad actually Because she's She was beautiful this one I called her Mildred Mildred Mild she was gorgeous. And so I flew her all around Europe.
2:03.3	You used to go to Poland for some reason or rather quite a bit.
2:07.3	Don't ask.
2:09.1	Did you go there?
2:10.0	I did the wind blow you?
2:11.2	I think the wind blew me.
2:13.0	And then I used to love lining up in this tiny little plane behind, like going into Budapest International Airport, right?
2:22.4	So they don't charge you very much to land there.
2:24.9	And then literally queuing up behind like a jumbo jet.
2:30.6	And this tiny thing, you know.
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