Countdown host Nick Hewer and his sidekick maths whiz Rachel Riley will be back in the studio in weeks. Nick, 76, who will be ignoring Government advice to self-isolate amid the Covid-19 crisis, declared: “Nothing will stop Countdown.” Rachel, 34, said: “There is a provisional date for July.
When we go back we won’t have any audience unfortunately. But like the rest of the country we are just going to play it by ear. “When we are in the studio we should be able to be socially distance as there is the space.
The space in the studio is OK, we can mic ourselves up.” She added: “Nick is 76 so he has got to be a little bit careful.” Nick said he would return to the Channel 4 hit, despite being in the high-risk category. “I will go back