Countdown Cath
Hytner, Cathy
Catherine Hytner was the original Countdown Girl for television's famous show hosted by Richard Whiteley and which was in due course to make Cathy's friend Carol Vorderman famous. Cathy was born the unwanted fourth daughter of a brutally handsome Yorkshire plumber and a terminally vain, arty, half Irish mother in a 1950's working-class, inner city suburb of Manchester. Her neglected childhood years were spent always finding somewhere else to b...