

One Twitter user wrote: "If Vorderman is behind the camera forcing you to say this at gunpoint, BLINK TWICE!" Another tweeted: "The fact you are honest about it and have the guts to come out and say it is testament to the person you are! Never have anything against honest people. Many of her almost 600,000 Twitter followers were stunned to hear the news from Riley, who took over from the show's arithmetic icon Carol Vorderman in 2009, aged 22. Rachel Riley, Maths expert, Gadget Show & Countdown host, MBE for services to Holocaust education grew up in Essex by way of Manchester.

I’m sorry but it's time I shared something with you. Rachel knows a thing or two about maths, having gained a maths degree from Oriel College, Oxford, and achieving other notable successes thanks to her skills with figures - including the. Even the word maths makes people screw their face up. More than other subjects there’s a myth that you have to be an absolute genius to be good at maths and to enjoy it, so I think it’s less accessible for people. She co-presents the Channel 4 daytime puzzle show Countdown and its comedy spin-off 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown. Oxford University maths graduate Riley shared "some personal news" in unbranded Twitter and Instagram videos on Saturday (24 November), claming she gets fed the answers to the Countdown numbers game through an earpiece. Rachel Annabelle Riley MBE (born 11 January 1986).
