Rachel Riley has signed up to take part on new TV show ‘My Famous Babysitter’.
According to The Sun newspaper’s Bizarre TV column, the ‘Countdown’ co-presenter will be tasked with looking after someone else’s kids for the W channel reality series.
The upcoming four-part series will, each week, see a different celebrity instructed to look after another’s family’s children for seven days and all their trials, tribulations and successes will be documented.
The challenge could prove to be even more difficult for Rachel as she and her boyfriend, former ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ professional Pasha Kovalev, do not have any children of their own.
However, Rachel is not averse to taking on new challenges and recently revealed she is learning Russian for her man.
The 33-year-old TV star is studying the language for the 39-year-old Latin and ballroom dancer she can converse with him in his native tongue and the first words she ever practised saying was "give me a kiss".
Rachel shared: "I am learning Russian, I’m doing it with an online app, it’s really homemade with Clip Art from the 90s to explain stuff. It teaches you how kids learn. My spelling is absolutely appalling but you pick it up as you go. The first thing I learnt was [the Russian for] ‘Give me a kiss’ and then from the app you learn things like, ‘I open the window with a crowbar.’ "
Rachel – who met Pasha when she was partnered with him on ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ in 2013 – is motivated to learn the language because she found it "disconcerting" when she couldn’t understand what Pasha’s friends were talking about when they all hung out together.
She added: "Pasha’s friends are mostly Russian and they were brought up in Soviet Russia and now they’ve come to mostly the States. We go on holiday with them and his mum and his brother as well. The first time I met the boys, I spoke no Russian at all. It’s really disconcerting, a bunch of thirty-something boys talking and giggling and drinking and I have no idea what they’re talking about."
Rachel Riley to appear on My Famous Babysitter
