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Rachel Riley has a 'Marilyn moment' as she gets caught off-guard by the wind while leaving the Countdown studios in Manchester


The 38-year-old presenter got a shock on Wednesday as she left the quiz show's studios in Manchester.

She then faced calls to be sacked from Channel 4 amid claims she appeared to falsely compare Saturday's horror attack in Australia to Islamist terrorism. In her now-deleted tweet, Riley appeared to link the violence, in which six people were killed before Cauchi was shot dead by police, to the 'globalised Infitada' movement - before later insisting her comments had been 'misunderstood'. 'Globalize the Intifada' is a term often used by pro-Palestinian activists that calls for aggressive resistance against Israel and those who support the country - and has been linked to wide-spread demonstration and protests in London.

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