From my personal experience, because I'm in a relationship, on paper I would never have imagined - I'm an Essex girl, maths geek who likes football, and I've ended up with a Russian ballroom dancer, and I guess the things you think are important, especially when you're younger, turn out not to be.

Rachel Riley

I have had a problem with food intolerance since I was eight.

My parents supported me through university, and after I graduated, I got a job as an analyst at a price comparison website called TotallyMoney.com.

Rachel Riley

Money Website Web

Maths is like a ladder - if you miss the first few rungs, you can't jump up, so start with the basics.

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Art You Wit

From my personal experience, because I'm in a relationship, on paper I would never have imagined - I'm an Essex girl, maths geek who likes football, and I've ended up with a Russian ballroom dancer, and I guess the things you think are important, especially when you're younger, turn out not to be.

Rachel Riley

Relationship Experience Younger

I'm really interested in male and female brains and whether female brains or male brains are better at maths.

Rachel Riley

Whether Ted T

It's always flattering when you get compliments, but it's more of a measure of who you are at the time than anything else.

Rachel Riley

Time Men You

I cycle, especially in warm weather. If I have a meeting in town, I would rather cycle than go by car.

Rachel Riley

War Car Would

I like to do things where you do learn something and go on a journey, such as 'Strictly Come Dancing.'

Rachel Riley

You Where Things

We go to the banya, the Russian spa. And you go into the sauna, which is really hot, much hotter than a normal sauna, and then they beat you with branches.

Rachel Riley

You Ya Wit

There's no reason for men to be better at maths than women - it's just about our perception.

Rachel Riley

Women Men Us

I think there is a real negative attitude to splitting up with someone in our society, but it is good to stay friends.

Rachel Riley

Society Good Attitude

God, I don't think of myself as gorgeous at all!

Rachel Riley

God Us Think

There's no such thing as a 'maths brain.' Anyone can be numerate; it's just a matter of confidence. There are so many opportunities to improve your skills during everyday life, doing even a little a day can make maths feel more familiar and less scary.

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Life Car Your

I've always been clumsy, the one who knocks glasses over.

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Who Ways Way

When I was little, I carried a book of times tables around everywhere and always tried to get the best score. I like the fact that you don't need any tools, only your head. I also enjoy rules and, with maths, you are either right or wrong.

Rachel Riley

Time Car Your

I'm very excited to be joining the 'Gadget Show' family. I'm always keen to try out new gadgets, so it's going to be brilliant to be able to get my hands on the latest models and test them on behalf of the viewers.

Rachel Riley

Family Ways Way

People have got their opinions, and you can't please everyone.

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You Very T

The brain is muscle. If you don't exercise it, it will get slow.

Rachel Riley

You Will USC

I'm a massive football fan, so when Ladbrokes approached me and asked me to take a look at the statistics, I jumped at the chance.

Rachel Riley

Chance Tis Take

The me on '8 Out Of 10 Cats' is the side I'd show to my mates.

Rachel Riley

T Side Show

Before 'Countdown,' I'd never even met anyone who was on TV.

Rachel Riley

I was on 'Strictly' because I was getting stage fright. I was taught that I had to imagine what a good outcome would be and be happy with it.

Rachel Riley

I was with my ex-husband for eight or nine years, and we became good friends. I met him at university, and our relationship ended. We are still good friends.

Rachel Riley

You sit men and women down and give them a maths test, and they will do fairly equally. Then you set up the same test, but with different people, and make them tick a box to say whether they are a man or a woman, and the women do significantly worse in the maths test than they did previously in a group set.

Rachel Riley

A review of maths teaching is a great thing, but it's a complex issue, and often the damage is done in the very early years of education.

Rachel Riley

My parents encourage me to save, but I do buy the odd thing that I wouldn't tell them about.

Rachel Riley

I take vitamin C and zinc every day to keep colds at bay. I also take calcium tablets to supplement my lack of dairy, and d-mannose, a cranberry extract thought to be good for women's health.

Rachel Riley

I never Google myself because that way madness lies.

Rachel Riley

People can underestimate you when you're blonde and from Essex, but it's easy to shut that down. I used to get dumb blonde jokes when I was 18, but when I replied that I was studying maths at Oxford, it usually shut them up.

Rachel Riley

In school productions, I was always villager No. 7. I was never at the front of the stage dancing and never had any lines.

Rachel Riley

Digital exclusion is a difficult issue for families across the whole of the U.K., including my own. I love seeing my nan, but with such a busy schedule and a long distance between us, I don't get to see her nearly as often as I would like.

Rachel Riley

I never would've thought of going on 'Strictly,' I mean, I went on because it's my mum's favourite programme in the world.

Rachel Riley

To get a job in TV is just amazing.

Rachel Riley

I don't want girls to aspire to being famous for the sake of being famous.

Rachel Riley

I didn't realise until I did CBT that I was a perfectionist. Whenever you do anything, there are always going to be things that go wrong, it's never going to be 100 per cent perfect. Because of how I was, I'd focus on those bits and always see the negative in anything.

Rachel Riley

CBT really helped me, and I would recommend it to anyone.

Rachel Riley

I like a challenge. I like doing things that scare me.

Rachel Riley

In TV, you get so many different opportunities, and especially, you get to try something different you don't get to do as a normal person, then great.

Rachel Riley

Even though you picture Russians as stoic, their language is really poetic.

Rachel Riley

Maths is the language of science.

Rachel Riley

I'm not into bags, so I don't pay a lot for them; I get them from H&M and Topshop.

Rachel Riley

I am lucky because I often get my makeup done by professionals, and they always try new ideas; I'll attempt to vaguely recreate what they've done.

Rachel Riley

I'd happily describe myself as a TV presenter now.

Rachel Riley

If I find a dress I really like and it happens to be a bit short, I'm not going to lose any sleep over it. The thing about going to Oxford is it does give you the confidence to be how you want to be.

Rachel Riley

When you're out shopping, try to calculate the discount of something in the sales, or work out how much a bill in a restaurant will come to. Your brain is just like any other muscle - you have to train it to make it work faster.

Rachel Riley

I'm the sort of person who has to learn something properly before I show anyone.

Rachel Riley

I use a stylist, which wasn't something I imagined I'd ever do, because I like shopping, but because we prerecord 'Countdown,' I don't want to wear something that everyone has from the high street by the time the programme goes out.

Rachel Riley

When I see myself on screen, I don't even feel like it's me - it's like it's a completely different person.

Rachel Riley

My biggest vice? Vegan cupcakes, which are delicious.

Rachel Riley

I love that once you know the basic rules of maths, you can do whatever you want with it.

Rachel Riley