Rachel Riley
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Rachel Annabelle Riley 11 January 1986 Rochford, Essex, England, United Kingdom |
| Residence | Thorpe Bay, Southend-on-Sea |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Oriel College, Oxford |
| Occupation | Television presenter |
| Employer | Channel 4, Sky Sports |
| Spouse(s) | Jamie Gilbert (m. 2012–13) |
Rachel Annabelle Riley (born 11 January 1986) is an English television presenter and mathematician who currently co-presents the Channel 4 daytime puzzle show Countdown, its comedy spin-off 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and Sky Sports' Friday Night Football. A mathematics graduate, her television debut came when she joined Countdown at age 22; with a passion for popularising maths and the sciences she has gone on to co-present The Gadget Show on Channel 5 (2013–14) and It's Not Rocket Science on ITV (2016). In 2013 she was a contestant on the BBC celebrity dance show, Strictly Come Dancing.
Born in Rochford, Essex, to an accountant father Christopher and his wife Celia (she also has a younger brother, Alex), Riley was brought up 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 then studied mathematics at Oriel College, Oxford, gaining an upper second-class honours degree.
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