Carol Vorderman injured in naked treadmill accident

Maths whizz 'covered in burns and doctor's dressings' after tripping on running machine

Carol Vorderman
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Television presenter Carol Vorderman has revealed that she is "covered in burns" after tripping over on a treadmill… while naked.

The mathematician, famed for co-hosting Countdown, told her 334,000 followers on Twitter about her exercise disaster. Attempting to comfort another tweeter who had experienced a predictive text mishap, she confessed: "I fell off a treadmill running naked (don't ask). Now covered in burns and doctor's dressings!"

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