"This was the time Margaret Thatcher was in power and they had an image of what they thought I should be," the TV star, pictured here in 1988, added. "I didn’t mind that, I’m very happy-go-lucky. But outside I would wear these turquoise tight shorts showing bum cheeks, they were marvellous. Even in Cambridge my nickname was ‘Boots Vorderman’."

"When people started to recognise me in the street, I didn’t look like I did on TV – and probably wasn’t quite what they were expecting!"

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