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Maths whiz Rachel Riley has opened up about details of her marriage and admitted that she and her husband, Pasha Kovalev, struggle to squeeze in alone time due to their busy work schedule.

The duo share two children, two-year-old daughter Maven, and one-year-old Noa, and Rachel described their relationship as “ships that pass in the night”.

Speaking to The Sun, the Countdown presenter said that date nights for them are “rare” and that they are nice to have, but that it's “family time” at the moment.

She told the publication: “It's nice to have date nights especially as we can be ships that pass in the night, especially when you have kids as well.”

Rachel gave an insight into their busy family schedule as she revealed her other half was “choreographing a film in Romania” for five weeks and the work didn’t stop when he got home as he got “straight into rehearsals”.

The TV favourite said: “It's been busy, it's been different, but everything is always in flux. It would be nice, once I'm not feeding the baby and picking her up, maybe we could even have a night together but that feels like a million miles away at the moment."

Although they are busy navigating parenthood, Rachel and Pasha “take each step as it comes” and Rachel said she has learnt to juggle her TV career as well as family life and her marriage.

The former Strictly Come Dancing contestant said that the biggest challenge is the “relentless of it” as she was putting two kids to bed at the same time for the five weeks that Pasha was away.

She said: “You have that mum rage 'I'm not an octopus', I can't do seven things at once.”

Rachel met Pasha when she competed on Strictly 10 years ago and they were paired, and after six years together the pair got married in Las Vegas.

The mathematician has previously spoken to OK! about being a mum, saying that she enjoys motherhood.

“I’ve found it quite liberating. It makes you live in the moment a lot more", she said.

She praised her husband and said: "It’s like we know a totally different baby because all the tricks we know work differently for both of us. Pasha is a wonderful dad. He’s really, really brilliant."

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