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Rachel Riley strikes out at Anne Robinson for stating she needed to ‘shut her up’ on Countdown

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Countdown star Rachel Riley has actually struck out at previous host Anne Robinson after she criticised her on-set behaviour.

Previous Weakest Link host Robinson, 80, provided the Channel 4 video game program for simply one year, from 2021 to 2022, signing up with regulars Riley and Susie Dent

Throughout Robinson’s time on the program, there were a number of reports that she was feuding with Riley, who signed up with the series in 2009, changing Carol Vorderman.

It was declared that Riley, 39, thought about “leaving” from the program due to increasing stress with Robinson, which supposedly developed an “uncomfortable and unpleasant environment” on set.

While the set were at first complimentary of each other, Riley quickly confessed she had not “done much bonding” with Robinson, who changed Nick Hewer.

Following this, Robinson called out Riley for “disruptive” her by talking in the background while she was talking to the program’s candidates.

In a current interview with The TelegraphRobinson rejected having a fight with Riley, however stated: “Rachel was a bit talkative when I was speaking with the candidates once we shut her up it was great.”

Anne Robinson hosted’Countdown’from 2021 to 2022 (Channel 4)

Riley has actually now attended to Robinson’s remarks, stating at the Women’s Football Awards recently:” If Anne requires to discuss me for promotion then best of luck to her. “

The Sun reports Riley as stating: “I have the very same viewpoint of her as many people do. I do not pay any attention to what she states.”

Robinson ended up being well-known for her scathing remarks directed at entrants when she provided BBC series The Weakest Link from 2000 to 2012.

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Rachel Riley has actually struck out at ex- ‘Countdown’host Anne Robinson (Getty Images)

Her signature providing design was questionable, with some fans discovering her jibes amusing and others thinking the “Queen of Mean” went too far with her remarks.

In January, Robinson described that she chose to take a more ruthless technique after fulfilling “genuine quizzers” and discovering they were “ruthlessly competitive” and prepared to criticise one another.

Reviewing her stint on the program in an interview with The Oldie in 2015, Robinson stated that she would “never ever be able” to act in the very same method if she existed the program now.

“You ‘d never ever have the ability to state all that now,” she declared. “Half of it would be marked out. I constantly believed the candidates would feel short-changed if I were great.”

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Jasper O’Malley
Jasper cut his teeth hosting local radio comedy hours before transitioning to satirical editorial writing. His sharp wit and unique takes on current affairs have landed him a recurring humor column in the Irish Times and made him a podcast favorite across the Emerald Isle.

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