Rachel Riley
British mathematician and television presenter
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| April 12 2025 | Appeared on The Weakest Link |
| December 26 2024 | Featured on The Festive Pottery Throwdown |
| April 2024 | Riley accused Apple of antisemitism over an iPhone emoji update and made controversial comments about the Bondi Junction stabbings, which led to criticism and a reminder from Channel 4 about her obligations. |
| March 2024 | Riley appeared on a panel at the Swipe-Up Rise-Up conference, calling on Jewish students to 'be courageous' in calling out antisemitism. |
| February 24 2024 | Appeared on Michael McIntyre's The Wheel |
| January 19 2024 | Participated in Beat The Chasers - Celebrity Special |
| January 2023 | Appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the New Year Honours for services to Holocaust education and antisemitism awareness. |
| November 16 2022 | Riley was awarded £50,000 in damages in a libel action against blogger Michael Sivier. |
| September 24 2022 | Featured on Saturday Kitchen Rosh Hashanah Special |
| April 2022 | Participated in a study by Center for Countering Digital Hate which revealed Instagram's failure to address 90% of abusive direct messages sent to high-profile women. |
| 2021 | Riley was awarded £10,000 in damages by a High Court judge after suing Laura Murray over a Twitter comment. |
| November 5 2021 | Riley gave birth to her second daughter with Pasha Kovalev. |
| October 2021 | Published her first book 'At Sixes and Sevens: How to Understand Numbers and Make Maths Easy'. |
| January 9 2021 | Appeared on Michael McIntyre's The Wheel |
| July 2020 | Riley and Oberman dropped their joint libel suit and contributed towards the defendant's legal costs. |
| 2019 | Riley co-presented Celebrity Countdown on More4 with Nick Hewer |
| December 15 2019 | Riley gave birth to her first child, a daughter, with Pasha Kovalev. |
| November 2019 | Riley posted a controversial Twitter image of Jeremy Corbyn with an edited sign, which was criticized for manipulating an anti-apartheid message. |
| June 2019 | Riley was criticised by environmental groups for promoting Shell's 'future energy solutions', with accusations of greenwashing. |
| June 28 2019 | Riley married Pasha Kovalev in Las Vegas. |
| May 2019 | A High Court judge ruled that an article linked in a tweet about Riley and Oberman was defamatory. |
| April 2019 | Riley backed the Stop Funding Fake News campaign. |
| February 2019 | Riley and Tracy-Ann Oberman initiated legal action against 70 individuals for tweets they considered libellous or harassment. |
| February 2019 | Riley was involved in talks to set up a centrist breakaway party from Labour, according to The Times and i. |
| 2018 | Riley and her husband became vegan. |
| 2018 | Riley began a campaign against the Labour Party's handling of antisemitism allegations, motivated by seeing 'Israel is a racist endeavour' posters on London bus stops. |
| September 2018 | Riley stated she had no party loyalties while criticizing Jeremy Corbyn over ongoing antisemitism allegations. |
| June 22 2018 | Competed on The Crystal Maze |
| 2017 | Rachel Riley left her role presenting Friday Night Football on Sky Sports. |
| 2017 | Riley was co-winner of the Rear of the Year award with Idris Elba. |
| 2016 | Co-presents It's Not Rocket Science on ITV, continuing her mission to popularise mathematics and sciences. |
| September 26 2016 | Guest on Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit |
| August 2016 | Riley joined Sky Sports to present Friday Night Football alongside Jeff Stelling, and Fantasy Football Club with Max Rushden and Paul Merson. |
| February 18 2015 | Featured on Room 101 |
| 2014 | Concludes co-presenting The Gadget Show on Channel 5. |
| 2014 | Riley presented Memory Slam on the Watch channel |
| February 4 2014 | Participated on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? |
| 2013 | Rachel Riley began co-presenting the Channel 5 programme The Gadget Show with Jason Bradbury, working on three series of the show before being replaced by Amy Williams. |
| December 2013 | Riley began dating her Strictly dance partner Pasha Kovalev after the show ended. |
| November 2013 | Riley and Jamie Gilbert announced their separation. |
| November 3 2013 | Riley was eliminated from Strictly Come Dancing in week six, losing the dance-off against Abbey Clancy and Aljaž Škorjanec. |
| September 2013 | Rachel Riley began competing in the eleventh series of Strictly Come Dancing, partnered with professional dancer Pasha Kovalev. |
| June 25 2013 | Riley marked her 1,000th episode of Countdown, with Ryan Giggs presenting her a signed Manchester United team shirt. |
| April 21 2013 | Appeared on Five Minutes to a Fortune |
| February 10 2013 | Guest appearance on Sunday Brunch |
| August 2012 | Rachel Riley married Jamie Gilbert, whom she met while studying at the University of Oxford. |
| August 19 2012 | Appeared on The Chase: Celebrity Special |
| March 16 2012 | Participated in The Bank Job: Celebrity Special |
| January 4 2012 | Appeared on Celebrity Mastermind |
| January 4 2012 | Rachel Riley competed on Celebrity Mastermind |
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