Name: Rachel Riley
Age: 27
Twitter: @RachelRileyRR[1]
Famous for: being in charge of the consonants and vowels on Countdown and reviewing gadgets on The Gadget Show
Bio:
Oxford university maths graduate Rachel Riley was plucked from obscurity to fill Carol Vorderman's shoes on Countdown in 2009, despite having no previous presenting experience.
She's taken to it like a duck to water though and recently recorded her 1,000th episode. She was even given a bunch of flowers by footballer Ryan Giggs to celebrate. Brilliant.
Nowadays, as well as pulling out those all important consonants and vowels and doing the number round on Countdown, Riley also presents Channel 5's The Gadget Show.
Numbers and letters aside, Riley is a huge Manchester United fan - she appeared on Celebrity Mastermind in 2012 with the club's history as her topic of choice. And she's also starred in The IT Crowd, Top Gear, 8 Out of 10 Cats and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown.
The star, who lives in Southend-on-Sea and is married to her childhood sweetheart, is pretty much as wholesome as they get. But type Rachel Riley into YouTube and you'd be surprised by the results. It's like people are tuning into Countdown just to see how tight or low cut her dress is. She's sure to pull in a few more male viewers to Strictly we suppose...
Here she is on The Gadget Show:
And mucking around on 8 out of 10 Cats does Countdown:
And playing a fairly soggy Innuendo Bingo on Radio 1...
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