Rachel Riley

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Rachel Annabelle Riley (born 11 January 1986) is an English television presenter best known for co-presenting Countdown and The Gadget Show.

In January 2009 she replaced Carol Vorderman as the co-host of Countdown doing the letters and numbers selection and mathematics solutions. She hosts the show alongside Nick Hewer.



Early life

Born in Rochford, Essex, Riley was educated at Southend High School for Girls where she obtained four As at A-Level. Riley then read mathematics at Oriel College, Oxford, gaining an upper second-class honours degree.

Television

Countdown

Riley was encouraged to apply for the Countdown position by her mother. She did not have an ambition to be a television presenter, but decided to apply because she was interested in the numbers part of the game.[6] Riley was chosen from more than a thousand applicants despite having no television experience. In an article for BBC News, she stated, "There's only one cool maths job around and I was lucky enough to get it so I'm absolutely thrilled". She began presenting Countdown alongside Jeff Stelling from 12 January 2009. In an interview in August 2009 she revealed that it had been difficult for her to step into Vorderman's shoes, and that she had even been criticised by certain Countdown viewers for getting some of the maths puzzles wrong. Her 1,000th episode aired on Tuesday 25 June 2013, where she was presented a signed shirt and a bunch of flowers by Manchester United player Ryan Giggs who had celebrated his 1,000 football pitch appearance the same year.

The Gadget Show

Since June 2013, Riley has been a presenter on the Channel 5 programme The Gadget Show. She co-hosts the programme with Jason Bradbury.
Guest appearances

Riley appeared on one episode of the Channel 4 sitcom The IT Crowd as herself in the fourth series, announcing the letters game and delivering the line, "Someone reminded me earlier you haven't actually yet got a word less than eight letters long; it's quite extraordinary!" She has appeared in the CBBC series, 12 Again. On 16 March 2012, Riley won £36,000 for charity on a celebrity edition of The Bank Job on Channel 4. On 9 June 2013, she took part in the ITV game show Tipping Point: Lucky Stars and won £2,600 for her chosen charity The Angus Lawson Memorial Trust. On 30 June 2013, she appeared on motoring programme Top Gear as a Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car. She has made several appearances on comedy panel show 8 Out of 10 Cats. She also presents the numbers rounds on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, which is a mix of the two shows, alongside 8 Out of 10 Cats presenter Jimmy Carr, captains Sean Lock and Jon Richardson, Countdown's resident lexicographer Susie Dent and her 'personal assistant' is comedian Joe Wilkinson.


Strictly Come Dancing

It has been announced that from September 2013, Riley will be participating in the upcoming eleventh series of the BBC One reality ballroom-dancing show, Strictly Come Dancing. It is yet to be confirmed who her dancing partner will be.

Other

On 26 June 2009, it was reported that Riley had been recruited by the Post Office to employ her mathematical skills to help advise holidaymakers on how to make the most of their holiday currency, after a report by the Post Office revealed that a significant number of holidaymakers fail to calculate the actual cost of goods and services when travelling abroad and often overspend their holiday budgets.

In October 2010, she presented a programme on MUTV featuring a tour of Manchester United's training ground at Carrington. On 4 January 2012 she took part in Celebrity Mastermind, with Manchester United from 1999 as her topic of choice. She has also hosted episodes of An Audience with... on MUTV.

Personal life

Riley is a keen supporter of Manchester United.

Riley describes herself as a "non-religious Jew".

She met her husband, Jamie Gilbert, while they were both studying at Oxford University. The couple split after four and a half years together at the end of 2009. However, they later got back together and became engaged after he proposed to her on her 25th birthday on 11 January 2011. She told viewers about the engagement on the 25 February edition of Countdown and their wedding was on 11 August 2012. They live in Thorpe Bay, Southend-on-Sea.

In 2009, Riley was ranked #95 in FHM's 100 Sexiest Women poll, and #84 in 2012

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