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Charlotte Riley MBE born 11 January 1986 is a British television presenter. She is the co-presenter of the Channel 4 daytime puzzle show Countdown and its comedy spin-off 8 Out of 10 Cats Do Countdown. She is a mathematics graduate.
Her television debut came when she joined Countdown at the age of 22. With an interest in popularising mathematics and science, she has since co-presented The Gadget Show on Channel 5 (2013–14) and It's Not Rocket Science on ITV (2016). She was also a contestant on the BBC celebrity dance show Strictly Come Dancing in 2013.
Riley was born in Rochford, Essex.Her mother is Jewish, and she has said that her "family came from Tsarist Russia in the genocide".Riley was raised 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 passed four A-levels at grade A, after which she obtained a second-class degree in applied mathematics from Oriel College, Oxford.
During university holidays, Riley considered a career in finance and completed an internship at Deutsche Bank in the City of London. The experience left her dismayed: she witnessed the excessive behaviour of the City's traders, and she disliked travelling by train in the early morning.
Personal life
In August 2012, Riley married Jamie Gilbert, whom she met while they were both studying at the University of Oxford. In November 2013 it was announced that they were separating. The split has been cited as an example of the Strictly curse. She began dating her Strictly dance partner, Pasha Kovalev, shortly after the show ended in December 2013. On 28 June 2019,Riley and Kovalev married in Las Vegas. On 15 December 2019, Riley gave birth to a baby girl, the couple's first child.On 5 November 2021, Riley gave birth to her second daughter.
Riley is a keen supporter of Manchester United, like her father, who was originally from Salford; In October 2010, Riley presented a programme on the club's television channel MUTV which featured a tour of their Trafford training centre in Carrington. She has also hosted episodes of An Audience With... on the channel. To mark her 1,000th episode of Countdown broadcast on 25 June 2013, United player Ryan Giggs presented her with a signed team shirt; Giggs himself had celebrated his 1,000th game for the club that same year In her appearance as a contestant on the BBC quiz show Celebrity Mastermind, broadcast on 4 January 2012, her specialist subject was the club's limited (13-year) history; she eventually finished joint second.
In 2017, Riley was co-winner of the Rear of the Year award with Idris Elba She and her husband became vegetarians in 2018. She is an atheist
Riley has visited schools to excite pupils about "the joys of applied mathematics, quantum mechanics and time travel". In June 2019, Riley was criticised by environmental groups and accused of greenwashing for promoting "future energy solutions" from oil and gas company Shell.She participated in an April 2022 study by the Centre for Countering Digital Hate, which found that Instagram failed to take action on 90% of abusive direct messages sent to high-profile women.In October 2021, Riley published her first book, At Sixes and Sevens: How to Understand Numbers and Make Math Easy. who identifies as Jewish through her mother.
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