Quotes from Rachel Riley

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

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

For my 21st birthday party, I had a 'Strictly'-themed fancy dress.

Filming 'It's Not Rocket Science' has made me realise I'm missing the part of my brain that warns me about danger because - even though the tasks are terrifying - I find it really exciting.

As soon as I am out of my work clothes, I am in flat shoes, stretchy leggings, and a cashmere jumper; it's all low maintenance.

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.

There is no time you should shut the doors, as there is always love out there for you.

I don't think you need to get married necessarily. Girls just assume they will get married and have babies, but that isn't the right thing for everyone.

When I was at uni, our whole college bar would gather around the quiz machine for a few games every night.

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.

Winter is my favourite season for clothes because I'm happiest wearing knitted dresses, leggings, and Uggs.

I was used to Essex boys growing up. Russian boys are a lot more gentlemanly and thoughtful. They will express their emotions a bit more.

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.

I never Google myself because that way madness lies.

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

I only applied for 'Countdown' as a bit of a laugh while applying for lots of other graduate jobs. I've had some amazing opportunities, and I've loved every minute.

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.

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.

Very fitted dresses look much better on TV, even though in reality they might be so tight that I can barely move in them.

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

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.

I think you regret the things that you don't do more than the things you do.

I'm really lucky to be in the TV industry and to have a regular yearly contract. That gives me security.

I am the type of person who just gets on with whatever life throws at you. I have a 'do first, worry later' kind of attitude.