Countdown favourite Rachel Riley, 33, took her usual spot in front of the Countdown board on the programme this afternoon as she joined host Nick Hewer, 75, and lexicographer Susie Dent, 54, for the latest instalment of letters and numbers games. At the beginning of the show, Nick brought up the topic of fruitarian diets, saying: “I was reading a story the other day about the fruitarian diet. Apparently there’s a woman in Australia,” he continued. “For the last 27 years she’s eaten nothing but fruit and she feels absolutely great.”
Nick reeled off a list food from the woman’s average daily diet, which included half a melon for breakfast, four bananas mid-morning, an avocado for lunch and two mangos for dinner.
He then turned to Rachel to ask her thoughts on the matter.
“It’s not for me,” she said sceptically. “But Pasha, for a while he did a nuts and berries diet.”
Recalling her Strictly Come Dancing star beau’s period of strange dieting, she added: “He really liked it. He said he felt a lot better.
“He’s into looking at weird videos online about health and nutrition,” she revealed.
Rachel and Pasha, 48, first met when she signed up for Strictly Come Dancing in 2013 and they were partnered up.
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