Rachel Riley hit backs at Anne Robinson's latest swipe amid ongoing feud

has clapped back at her former co-star , after the 80-year-old made a fresh dig at the mathematician in a new interview.

Anne previously denied any notion of a fall out between her and her former co-star, 39, but issued a devastating blow to the maths whizz. Anne quit the show for good in 2022 after only a year as host, and rumours of a feud began to circulate. But now the sharp-tongued TV personality denies such a thing ever happened.

In a new interview with The Telegraph, she confessed: "It's just a story. Rachel was a bit talkative when I was interviewing the contestants, but once we shut her up it was fine." She added: "Anyway, I'm always tolerated because if I've got to be on set at two minutes to nine you'll find me there at two minutes to nine. It's allowed me to survive."

Following the interview, Rachel has responded to Anne's snipe and accused the former host of using her name for attention. Speaking to The Sun, she said: "If Anne needs to mention me for publicity, then good luck to her. I have the same opinion of her as most people do."

She added, "I don't pay any attention to what she says."

Anne has cited the reason for her leaving the long-running Channel 4 show was because of the filming commitments. She previously said working on the show was "exhausting", explaining to Saga Magazine that the reason she quit was the long journeys to Manchester. She said: "It was genuinely that it was exhausting and I wasn't seeing my grandchildren.

"Every other week I would go off to Manchester on the Sunday night, do five shows a day on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, get in the car and come back to sleep for most of Thursday. And I didn't need it. Countdown was lovely to do but I hadn't really considered the journeying and the physicality."

However, Rachel said the atmosphere in the studio became more "fun" once Anne had gone, confessing to the Daily Star: "The viewing figures are the highest they've been in a decade, and we get really good letters from people enjoying it.

"Anne had her own style, and Colin has a different one. It's fun now. We can put the rude words up on the board again. We haven't got a headmistress watching over us. Colin brings quite a lot of good energy. The viewers now can see it."