Rachel Riley pregnant with her second child with dancer husband Pasha Kovalev
Rachel Riley is pregnant with her second child.
The 35-year-old Countdown star – who is married to professional dancer Pasha Kovalev -announced the news by sharing a photo of herself standing in front of the show’s famous letter board holding her hands over her baby bump.
The tiles read “Fitt Riley”.
She wrote: “A special teatime teaser!
“And your clue is… Riley had this to thank for the reason her clothes no longer fit her… And it’ll only get worse till Autumn!
“Happy, happy days for our little family @pashakovalev and future big sister Mave.”
Riley and Kovalev met on Strictly Come Dancing in 2013, and married in Las Vegas in 2019.
The couple already have a daughter, Maven, who was born in December the same year.
Just last month, Riley spoke about her hopes of having another baby.
In an interview with Hello Magazine, she said: “I think we’d like another one… Some of my friends had twins by accident and a few of them have got three little ones and everyone seemed to have them straight after. No one regrets it though, do they?”
Riley announced her first pregnancy in a similar manner, sharing a photo of herself on the set of the Channel 4 game show, with the letters on the board spelling out “R TINY MATE”.
She wrote: “Pash and I have a conundrum for you… you have till December to work it out!
“We’re over the moon excited.”
The presenter started dating Kovalev after splitting from her husband, fellow Oxford University student Jamie Gilbert, in 2013.
Kovalev announced he was leaving Strictly following the 2018 series, after eight years on the show.
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