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Rachel Annabelle Riley is an English television presenter who currently Co presents the channel for daytime puzzles show countdown and it's comedy spin-off eight out of 10 cats.
Does countdown a mathematics graduate her television debut came when she joined countdown at age 22 with a passion for popularizing maths and the sciences she has gone on to go present The Gadget Show on channel 5 and it's not rocket science on ITV in 2013 she was a contestant on the BBC celebrity.
She born in Rochford Essex Riley was brought up in the Thorpe Bay area of southend-on-sea and was educated at the independent Thorpe all school and Southend High School for Girls a Grammar School where she obtained for as at a-level she then studied mathematics at Oriel College Oxford gaining an upper second-class honours degree she considers herself to be a non-religious Jew early career during a university vacation Riley considered a career in the financial sector and completed an internship at deutsche bank in the city of London the experience put her off although already familiar with male-dominated environments in the field of mathematics she found the extreme behavior of city traders wearing and not being a morning person she also disliked the early morning train commute her maths degree helped her get a job performing statistical analysis for a price comparison startup company Riley also took a postgraduate degree a master's degree being attracted by the intersection of mathematics and civil engineering television Riley's television debut came in January 2009.
when at the age of 22 she joined the channel for letters and numbers game show countdown prior to this Riley had received no training for working in television and had no other experience with the media industry leading to descriptions of her landing this role as a baptism of fire given its status as a during the broadcasting crown according to one media commentator while occupying the niche role she long believed she was not a television presenter but she came to realize that the industry has changed so that I don't think Terry's such a thing as a TV presenter anymore there are just people who go on TV as her popularity grew due to daily appearances on countdown she branched out into other roles co-presenting eight out of 10 cats does countdown in the Gadget Show although her profile was significantly boosted by her appearance as a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing which largely catapulted Riley onto the a-list and opened up the doors for new television roles according to another commentator in 2014 two years before her Elan it's not rocket science she said I'd love to present a popular science program because it's something I feel very passionate about countdown bonk countdown Riley replaced the long-serving Carol Vorderman like Vorderman Riley's role is to handle the placement of tars on the board for the letters and numbers rounds and to find an exact solution in the numbers rounds if the contestants are unable to do so 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 were in place for the new series beginning in January 2009 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 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 Riley takes the role of solving the numbers round so seriously that if she cannot solve it on the show she takes it away with her to finish commenting i'm really OCD about it I have to get it I like puzzles that's what I do that's why I applied for the job that's why I used to watch countdown when I was younger I like solving stuff she has attributed this compulsion to a nervy and flustered start in the role which resulted in Han making some errors although she says she has since got the hang of it in the task is now a matter of routine in the contrast on account of her a really amateur sense of humor she has some difficulty in maintaining her composure during the words round whenever rude words appear Riley frequently encounters closed media and public scrutiny of what she wears on the show with her wardrobe choices attracting intense social media comment on Twitter and YouTube and even national headlines particularly.
if they are deemed too revealing or tight working with a wardrobe consultant she obtains most of the clothes for high street stores although some are purchased from a small boutique near her home in Southland while trying to please everybody with varied choices she nonetheless takes the phlegmatic approach to the attention commenting even with the same outfit you'll get polar opposite views so you can't win you've just got to learn that you can't please everyone all of the time the number of episodes means wearing some outfits more than once is inevitable she donates items she no longer requires to charity some being auctioned by her mother 8 out of 10 cats does countdown since it was first broadcast on the 2nd of January 2012 Reilly 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 while countdown is seen as a straight light entertainment show in explaining the difference between the two Riley sees countdown as the role she is happy for her grandmother to see while cats does countdown as the more risque cheeki role which she shows to her friends some of the running gangs used on the show are made by coward Riley's expense aimed at her lack of dancing ability and a supposed frosty relationship with Vorderman while in the returned Riley is often given jokes which mocked cars supposed desires on herself and his tax avoidance due to scheduling conflicts with filming for it's not rocket science Riley was replaced by Claudia Winkleman for two episodes in series 9 Rachael is a fan of Bill Bailey who also appears on the show Strictly Come Dancing from September 2013 Riley appeared in the eleventh series of the BBC one ballroom dancing programme Strictly Come Dancing with professional dancing partner Pasha Kovalev she was eliminated in week six of the show on the 3rd of November after losing out in the dance-off against Abby Clancy and Ollie our gorge annek according to Riley she lacked a natural talent for performing so instead sought to frame each dancers that of a character for the first five weeks Riley suffered from stage fright commenting that 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 behavioral 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 it's not rocket science in 2016 Riley was part of the three-person presenting team for ITV's six part series it's not rocket science build by the network as an entertainment series celebrating science her co-presenters Ben Miller and Romesh Ranganathan similarly had a background in science and maths explaining the purpose of the show as popularizing science and making it seem less intimidating she said it's showing that you can't separate the world of science from the world we live in she added that while her background is in maths you can't separate them either maths is the language of science a key part of the show was a weekly challenge where one of the presenters risk their lives to prove a scientific theory in Riley's case she cycled on a tightrope and sick blind through a ring of fire Sky Sports in August 2016 it was announced that Riley would join Sky Sports to present Friday Night Football alongside her former countdown co-presented Jeff Stelling and fantasy football club with max Rushton and Paul Merson she left Friday Night Football in 2017 other work or the 26th of June 2009 it was reported that Riley had been recruited by 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 failed to calculate the actual cost of goods and services when traveling abroad and often overspend their holiday budgets her mathematics background and love of football has seen Riley assist bookmakers in preparing betting odds for football tournaments based on her analysis she predicted Chile would win the 2014 FIFA World Cup despite depreciating fans would see it as an unlikely outcome personal life Riley was married for 16 months to Jamie Gilbert whom she met while they were both studying at the University of Oxford after four and a half years together the couple initially split at the end of 2009 before reconciling Gilbert then proposed on her 25th birthday on the 11th of January 2011 they married on the 11th of August 2012 although they married in a civil ceremony Gilbert followed the Jewish tradition of stamping on a glass it was announced in November 2013 that they were separating Riley is a keen supporter of Manchester United like her father in October 2010 Riley presented a programme on the club's television channel huge featuring a tour of their Trafford training centre in Carrington she has also hosted episodes of an audience with on the channel to mark her 1000th episode of countdown United player Ryan Giggs presented her with a signed team shirt Giggs himself having celebrated his 1000th game for the club the same year in her appearance as a contestant on the BBC quiz show.
celebrity mastermind broadcast on the 4th of January 2012 her specialist subject was a limited history of the club she eventually finished in joint second place Riley has been dating her former Strictly part in a Pasha Kovalev since 2014 and the couple now lived together in London Riley is learning Russian educational advocacy in an effort to put her public profile to work for the common good Riley strives to be an advocate for the so called geeky subjects of mathematics and science and has visited schools to infuse pupils on the joys of applied maths quantum mechanics and time-travel and so on a blog written by sari University academic Julia Percival and hosted by the Guardian which argued that Riley's looks and figure would work against any aim to increase female participation in the sciences was described by the Daily Telegraph as unfair and a case of Riley being damned if she did and damned if she didn't brought to you by wiki vide documentaries would you like
