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 "joys of applied maths, quantum mechanics and time travel and so on". A blog, written by Surrey University academic Julia Percival and hosted by "The Guardian", which argued that Riley's looks and figure would work against any aim to increase female participation in the sciences, was described by "The Daily Telegraph" as unfair and a case of Riley being damned if she did and damned if she didn't. She has also made brief appearances in such shows as "The IT Crowd", "Dispatches", "Britain's Brightest" and "1001 Things You Should Know". Rachel Riley Rachel Annabelle Riley (born 11 January 1986) is