Carol Vorderman, 59, drops bombshell about Countdown salary: 'I had a proper job'

Carol started: “Everybody listening will probably know her from EastEnders, most of all. Six years was it, Nina, as post office owner Zainab Masood?”

“That’s right,” the Death In Paradise actress, 51, said of her Albert Square character.

“Six years,” Carol reiterated. “They go quickly those years, don’t they?” to which her guest agreed.

“They really do,” she said, after her exit seven years ago. “I only signed up for three months!”