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Countdown’s Rachel Riley left red-faced at Nick Hewer’s X-rated banter

Naughty Nick strikes again

Countdown star Rachel Riley was left red-faced and clearly embarrassed after presenter Nick Hewer turned to the topic of balls.

Nick made some naughty innuendos in relation to boules which is a French game where players compete against eachother to try and throw a ball as close as possible to the stationary target.

He joked: “They don’t want to bend down to pick up their boules.

“So they have a magnet at the end of a piece of string.”

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Nick, who is well known for starring on The Apprentice, then tried to keep a straight face as he did the action of picking up boules, which left the audience giggling.

As he did the action he said: “Why exhaust yourself picking up your balls when you can do it with a magnet?”

Rachel was left blushing, and Nick was trying to hold back his laughter throughout his joke. Oh Nick you cheeky thing!

Rachel recently quit her job at Sky Sports due to bullying on social media. The blonde stunner received a wave of nasty comments via Twitter after she made a controversial remark about Tottenham Hotspur’s chances of winning the Premier League.

She called the team’s loss to West Ham a “proper bottle job” and received sexist comments by angry trolls online. One person tweeted: “Think we can safely say the Rachel Riley #fnf experiment hasn’t worked. Irrelevant she’s a woman, she’s just a terrible presenter.”

Another added: “That absolute numpty Rachel Riley saying Spurs a ‘bottle job’. Yet again, if it wasn’t for Spurs there wouldn’t be a title race. Still proud.”

In response to the criticism Rachel tweeted (and then deleted): “For the record I didn’t say Spurs are bottle jobs but tonight’s game was a test of nerve. WH hadn’t beaten any of the top 6 in the PL.

“Didn’t mean any offence to Spurs or their fans tonight just a surprise to slip v WHam with their form on paper. Personal abuse is hideous.

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“I love football, always have, always will, banter is fun, abuse is not whoever/whatever/wherever #respect.”

Rachel’s 12 month contract deal with Sky Sports was coming to an end but she decided not to renew it. A source at Sky Sports said: “At the end of the season she contacted the head of football, saying she felt it wasn’t right to be part of that programme.

“This was something she was considering in advance of the West Ham-Spurs match.”


Nancy Brown
Associate Editor

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