Summary
THINGS haven't been going smoothly for Carol Vorderman's Countdown replacement Rachel Riley (pictured). Last week it emerged that Rachel, 22, was having some difficulty solving number puzzles at high speed. And now the Oxford mathematics graduate has owned up to more prosaic problems.
'In my screen test I couldn't get the top off a marker pen while also talking to camera and trying to be professional,' says Rachel, who is being paid [pounds]100,000 -- compared with Miss Vorderman's [pounds]800,000 -- when the Channel 4 quiz returns for a new series next week.See the full content of this document
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Rachel Is Tested by Vowel Play
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