Carol Vorderman has revealed that she will be wearing a flight suit to the premiere of Top Gun: Maverick after getting her pilot's licence.
The former Countdown star has promised fans that she will ditch her usual red carpet attire for her brown flight suit to the London event.
The 61-year-old who got her pilot's licence in 2014 said her outfit was to pay homage to the original film.
Carol sent her followers spun into a frenzy after she posed in the suit on her Instagram page.
She added a thick black belt, which hugged her in at the waist and wore a pair of oversized aviator glasses.
The TV star shared a selection of photos of her flying her plane which she lovingly called 'Mildred'.
She wrote: "Strictly speaking it should be a gown on the red carpet tonight but this is my little homage to the original Top Gun and to my passion for aviation.
"Been going through some pics flying my lovely plane Mildred...she's a twin engine Diamond DA42-VI and a beauty and have flown her all over Europe and up to Iceland in my survival kit...that was interesting and exciting," she added.
One of the photos showed her standing on the wing of a plane after landing in Austria, while another saw her beaming in a green flight suit.
Other snaps were of her posing with friends and another sitting on the ramp of a Chinook helicopter as it flew over London.
"Some other pics with genius fighter pilots...supersonic in a Typhoon, thrown around in Hawk in the Red Arrows, with Ben Murphy in his Red Bull racer.....on the ramp of a Chinook over London. What a lucky woman I've been in that way.
"You know the ONLY thing I ever wanted to be growing up and probably since....is a fighter pilot. I was born 20 years too early, they didn't take women pilots in the military in my day but I got my licences in my 50s which closed a happy circle", she explained.
The presenter went on to say: "So tonight isn't just a red carpet or a movie for me. It's much more meaningful I guess."
Carol had previously said how she was "laughed at" when she said that she wanted to study engineering at Cambridge University.
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She was one of the first women to join the course when she was 17 but her dreams took a back seat after landing her job on Countdown in 1982.
Speaking to the Daily Mail in 2016, she said: "It wasn't until I left Countdown in 2008, with my 50th birthday on the horizon, that I started to dream of flying again, but there was always a reason why it wasn't the right time. I was also convinced I was too old."
She added: "If I could go back in time, I'd tell that little girl staring up at the planes that it doesn't matter if you're a woman or a man, it doesn't matter what people say, and it doesn't matter if you're 25 or 55."
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