CAROL VORDERMAN is one of TV’s most talked-about celebrities, but tonight she, along with a host of other famous faces, takes a back seat at The Pride of Britain Awards 2012, held at London’s Grosvenor House. This year, the ceremony comes with a promise of being bigger than ever.
To name but a few, we’ll be hearing the stories of a six-year-old girl who risked her own life to save her sister from the path of a runaway car, a terminally-ill teenager who has touched millions of people around the world with her blog, parents who raised £1.6m to fulfil their dying son’s wish, and a young woman who donated a kidney in a moving legacy to her murdered mother.
And Olympic hero Mo Farrah will honour the teacher who encouraged him to change paths as a tearaway teen.
“It’s always such a great pleasure hosting Pride of Britain. For me, it is the only awards show on TV that really matters because the winners are real people who could not be more deserving,” says Vorderman.
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