“The presenter, 64, was forced to quit her LBC radio show last year after she had experienced ‘burnout’ and found herself in hospital.”, — write: www.dailymail.co.uk
The presenter, 64, was forced to quit her LBC radio show last year after she had experienced ‘burnout’ and found herself in hospital.
Carol admitted she had worked herself too hard after working seven days in a row for several weeks repeatedly and made the decision to step back, after getting her own show on the station in 2023.
Now, ahead of hosting the annual Pride of Britain Awards, Carol explained to the Mirror that despite having a ‘hellish year’ she is on the right medication and has her ‘mojo back’.
She told the publication: ‘This year has been a bit hellish health-wise.
‘I’ve been very poorly, not related to the burnout but something entirely different. I’m on the right medications now, but it’s only in the last month or so that I felt I’ve got my mojo back. So watch out, world!’
She added that she has been relying on a circle of good friends to lift her spirits and help her enjoy her new time off.
‘I’ve had lots of mini-breaks and holidays with friends – gay friends, female friends I’ve had for 50 years, or some I’ve known for 10. I’ve been back to horse racing, I’ve travelled to the States, to France, to everywhere, actually!,’ Carol explained.
It comes after Carol revealed the treatments she relies on to maintain her youthful complexion, after being dogged by rumours of plastic surgery.
The presenter, who turns 65 in December, has long denied she’s gone under the knife to maintain her ageless appearance, and in a new interview has shared the unlikely method she relies on to keep her skin looking fresh.
Carol revealed she has pricey facials where the plasma from her blood is applied to her face through an injection, in a bid to maintain the collagen in her skin.
The method, which is also known as the vampire facial due to the use of blood taken from the patient’s body, is loved by stars such as Kim Kardashian , and can cost more than £1,000 per treatment.
During the interview, Carol also shared an update on the ‘five special friends’ she’d previously discussed, insisting she doesn’t see herself in a long-term relationship after being ‘single for 15 years.’
Speaking to Heat Magazine, Carol revealed: ‘I have a treatment every four months that involves having my blood taken – the plasma is then mixed with polynucleotides and all sorts of things and then injected back into the skin.
‘It stops the rapid decline of collagen. It’s really good, but it’s not cheap. If I could bathe in it, I would. I also have Botox and I’ll probably have a facelift at some point.’
The treatment, also known as a platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injection, sees a patient injected with samples of their own blood that have been fed into a centrifuge to filter out the protein-rich plasma that aestheticians say can make skin look younger.
Carol then went on to detail the ‘special friends’ she’s had relationships with in recent years, after first detailing the arrangement in an interview in 2023.
She said: ‘I’m not going to talk about how many friends I now have – or don’t!
‘But I’ve never been happier being single. I’ve had what I call ”medium term boyfriends” for a year or so, but I’ve basically been single for about 15 years.
‘I have a very close-knit family, great friends and my two children. I feel like I don’t need love because I’ve got so much in my life already.’
Carol previously hit back at those who criticised her for having Botox, insisting she has a ‘no f***s given’ approach to ageing.
She told The Sunday Times Magazine: ‘Everyone on telly has Botox. I look the way I do because it makes me happy.
‘But you get to a point in life where it’s no f***s given. I love what David Bowie said about ageing: ‘You become the person you always should have been.’
‘My sixties is the age I always should have been. The abuse I get is off the scale but I don’t give a monkey’s. Actually it spurs me on.’
She also told how she has actually never had a boob job but that she went up three cup sizes when she went through menopause.
The maths guru has also previously discussed her relationships with her ‘special friends’ insisting her lovers are all single – and she wouldn’t mind if any of her lovers fell for someone else and moved on.
One thing that has surely connected Carol to a younger generation is her attitude to dating and her willingness to talk about it openly, if not in prurient detail.
‘Oh yeah, yeah, my ‘special friends’,’ she said. ‘I’m continuing with that system and it’s working very well.’
There are five of them. She said: ‘One’s been a friend for 11 years, one for seven. My kids [Katie, 31, and Cameron, 25], know most of them.’
Carol admitted she relishes the independence and the freedom the setup gives her and says there is no problem with her partners wanting more intimacy than it offers, ‘as long as you’re all honest and have a good time’.
She continued: ‘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.
‘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…’
Carol has been single since she split from journalist Des Kelly in 2007, after being married twice, first to Christopher Mather from 1985 to 1986 and then to second husband Patrick King from 1990 until 2000 – the father of her two children.