Carol Vorderman was stunned after being told about Towie Pete Wick’s bid to be one of her ‘special friends.’

The Countdown whizz, 62, has previously shared that she is dating five different men and has encouraged other women to approach relationships differently.

She also revealed that one of her ‘special friends’ is an astronaut and contacts her from the space station, while another she has been seeing for more than a decade.

And there’s another man who is desperate to be part of Carol’s love life, with Pete, 35, having said on a podcast that he would love to be welcomed into the fold.

The media personality was asked about the reality TV star’s proposition after appearing on Friday’s This Morning by presenter Holly Jay-Smith.

Holly informed the presenter that Pete ‘wants to be one of your men’ with a gobsmacked-looking Carol’s jaw dropping to the floor in a video shared to Instagram.

Carol Vorderman was stunned to be propositioned by Pete Wicks (Picture: Instagram)

Bursting into laughter, Carol then asked Holly to show her a picture of the reality TV star, giving a nod in approval.

Carol joked: ‘Is that official now?

Well, you’ve got to start following him [on Instagram] at least. Because they said on their podcast that he’d like to be one of your men’.

Before Carol said: ‘One of my special friends? That’s hilarious!’.

Pete said on record he would love to be one of Carol’s special friends (Picture: Getty Images)

Carol previously told Michelle Visage on Rule Breakers when asked about her relationship status: ‘I’m having the best time. 

‘I’ve spoken about this once. I have a system which I’ve had for 10 years. They’re called ‘special friends’.

‘I spoke a couple of months ago about having “special friends” and it was like, again, the world had fallen in for some people but actually what I found was there was an awful lot of women who said “I’d never thought about it like this”’.

Carol has advocated for women to approach dating differently (Picture: ITV/REX/Shutterstock)

She continued on to explain in detail her relationships with each man: ‘One’s 11 years, one’s seven years, you know everyone is single. It’s a happy place. I hasten to add I’m not into one-night stands.

‘The language around a woman of my generation is that if you had more than one partner when you got married you were this you were that.

‘Everything was derogatory about a woman, that was the environment I was growing up in. It was like ‘she’s desperate’, everything was judgmental.’

The TV host got married aged 24 in 1985 to a Royal Navy officer, Christopher Mather but their entanglement was short-lived and they split 12 months later. 

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At 30, Carol took a trip down the aisle again, this time to meet management consultant Patrick King in 1990.

The couple welcomed two children during their marriage which lasted until 2000.

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