Other work įrom 2013 to 2014, Riley co-presented on the Channel 5 programme The Gadget Show with Jason Bradbury. For the first five weeks, Riley suffered from stage fright, commenting, "As soon as the music would start, I would have a fuzzy brain and it was like an out-of-body experience" after seeing a cognitive behavioural therapist, she was able to control her breathing, and so was only able to truly enjoy the show for what proved to be her final appearance. She was eliminated in week six of the show, on 3 November, after losing out in the dance-off against Abbey Clancy and Aljaž Škorjanec, who went on to win the series.Īccording to Riley, she lacked a natural talent for performing, so instead sought to frame each dance as that of a character. Since it was first broadcast on 2 January 2012, Riley has also performed her Countdown role on the comedy crossover spin-off version, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, alongside comedian Jimmy Carr as host.įrom September 2013, Riley appeared in the eleventh series of the BBC One ballroom dancing programme Strictly Come Dancing with professional dancing partner and future husband Pasha Kovalev. Having beaten 1,000 applicants for the role, she commented, "There's only one cool maths job around and I was lucky enough to get it so I'm absolutely thrilled." Although she had no ambition to be a television presenter, she was encouraged to apply by her mother, and decided to do so because she was interested in the numbers part of the game. Riley's appointment to Countdown was announced at the same time as the announcement of a new main host, Jeff Stelling, replacing Des O'Connor the duo of Stelling and Riley was in place for the new series beginning in January 2009. Like Vorderman, Riley's role is to place tiles on the board for the letters and numbers rounds and to find a solution in the numbers rounds if the contestants are unable to do so. On Countdown, Riley replaced the long-serving Carol Vorderman. The experience put her off: she found the extreme behaviour of city traders wearing, and she disliked the early-morning train commute. ĭuring a university holiday, Riley considered a career in the financial sector and completed an internship at Deutsche Bank in the City of London. Riley was raised in the Thorpe Bay area of Southend-on-Sea and was educated at the independent Thorpe Hall School, and Southend High School for Girls, a grammar school, where she obtained four As at A-Level, after which she took a second in applied maths at Oriel. She stated that, "My family came over in the pogroms" from Tsarist Russia. She was also a contestant on the BBC celebrity dance show Strictly Come Dancing in 2013. With an interest in popularising mathematics and the sciences, she has since co-presented The Gadget Show on Channel 5 (2013–14) and It's Not Rocket Science on ITV (2016). Her television debut came when she joined Countdown aged 22. She co-presents the Channel 4 daytime puzzle show Countdown and its comedy spin-off 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown. Rachel Annabelle Riley MBE (born 11 January 1986) is a British television presenter.
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