Southend girl to star in TV's Countdown (From Echo)

Southend girl to star in TV's Countdown

6:00pm Saturday 22nd November 2008 in

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A FORMER Southend schoolgirl will replace Carol Vorderman as the maths brainbox on TV quiz show Countdown.

Rachel Riley, 22, a former pupil of Southend High School for Girls, will join Sky Sports presenter Jeff Stelling as co presenter on the popular Channel 4 show.

Rachel, who graduated from Oriel College, Oxford, with a masters degree in mathematics, fought off stiff competition from more than 1,000 hopefuls.

She said: “This is the best graduate job in the world.

“There's only one cool maths job around and I was lucky enough to get it, so I’m absolutely thrilled.”