Countdown (game show) Stelling was confirmed as the new host, with Oxford graduate Rachel Riley in the Vorderman role. It was announced on 24 May 2011 that Stelling would be leaving the programme, and he presented his final show on 16 December 2011. On 16 November 2011, it was announced that Nick Hewer would be taking over as host, with his first show broadcast on 9 January 2012. "Countdown" quickly established cult status within British television – an image which it maintains today, despite numerous changes of rules and personnel. The programme's audience comprises mainly students, homemakers and pensioners, owing to the "teatime"
Stelling Minnis Stelling Minnis Stelling Minnis is a village and civil parish in the Folkestone and Hythe district in Kent, England. The village lies to the south of Canterbury, and to the east of the B2068, "Stone Street", the Roman road, which takes traffic between Lympne and Canterbury. Stelling was a village a mile from the Stelling minnis. Stelling was an Old English word for a shelter or cattle fold; stell also being a Germanic word for a farmer of a small number of cattle. A minnis was ancient common pasture land cleared from the wooded upper slopes on the high clay