Rachel Riley stated she shares her MBE with these ‘combating anti-Jewish racism’ as she is honoured for her efforts to lift consciousness of the Holocaust and fight antisemitism.
The Countdown star and mathematician, whose mom is Jewish, has been honoured for her providers to Holocaust training as an avid campaigner within the New Yr Honours record.
The 36-year-old Oxford College graduate was a vocal critic of Labour’s dealing with of alleged antisemitism throughout the occasion and Jeremy Corbyn’s conduct whereas chief.
She wrote on Twitter on Friday: ‘Extremely proud to have simply been awarded an MBE for providers to Holocaust training.
‘Grateful to everybody who has despatched nicely needs and help over time.
‘That is very a lot shared with so many individuals who additionally dedicate their time and power to combating anti-Jewish racism.’
She took over from Carol Vorderman as co-host of Channel 4’s Countdown in 2009 on the age of twenty-two, after Vorderman stepped down from the position she had held for the reason that present started in 1982.
Her tenure because the resident quantity cruncher has seen her work alongside presenters Jeff Stelling, Nick Hewer, Anne Robinson and Colin Murray.
In January 2019, she made a speech at a Westminster reception for the Holocaust Instructional Belief addressing the abuse she acquired on social media as a public determine.
She has additionally labored with the Centre for Countering Digital Hate to fight on-line abuse.
In August, Mr Corbyn’s former aide, Laura Murray, misplaced an enchantment in opposition to a Excessive Court docket libel ruling which ordered her to pay £10,000 damages to Riley after a Twitter row.
In November, Riley was awarded £50,000 in damages by a Excessive Court docket decide after suing political blogger Mike Sivier for libel over an article alleging she was a ‘serial abuser’ and had bullied a young person.
And in 2019, she was embroiled in a web based row after modifying a photograph of Mr Corbyn at an anti-apartheid protest as she accused him of racism.
In November 2021, she welcomed her second daughter Noa with skilled dancer husband, Pasha Kovalev, following the beginning of Maven in 2019.
Riley began relationship Kovalev after splitting from her husband, fellow Oxford College scholar Jamie Gilbert, in 2013.
The couple met once they had been paired up collectively on the eleventh sequence of Strictly Come Dancing and married in Las Vegas in 2019.
Riley joins the likes of Brian Might, Frank Skinner, Chris Kamara and Stephen Graham on this 12 months’s New Years Honours.
Queen icon Might will obtain a knighthood for his providers to music and charity whereas Skinner and Kamara will get MBEs.
Line Of Responsibility star Graham will get an OBE for his providers to drama.
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