Birthday countdowns5/20/2023 ![]() 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 is the more risqué, cheeky role which she shows to her friends. 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. 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 handle the placement of tiles 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. 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. She then completed a master's degree in mathematics at the University of Oxford. She 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. 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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