Rachel Riley "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 role on "It's Not Rocket Science", she said, "I'd love to present a popular science programme because it's something I feel very passionate about." On "Countdown", Riley replaced the long-serving Carol Vorderman. Like Vorderman, Riley's role is to handle the placement of tiles on the board for the letters and numbers rounds and to find
Rachel Riley year. In her appearance as a contestant on the BBC quiz show "Celebrity Mastermind", broadcast on 4 January 2012, her specialist subject was a limited (13 year) history of the club; she eventually finished in joint second place. Riley has been dating her former Strictly partner Pasha Kovalev since 2014, and the couple now live together in London. Riley is learning Russian. 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 enthuse pupils on the