Rachel Riley shares insight into family life with Pasha Kovalev

Rachel Riley has confessed she and her husband Pasha Kovalev can be like ‘ships passing in the night’ as they juggle parenting their two daughters with their busy work schedules.The couple, who married in 2020, are parents to daughters Mave, six, and Noa, four, and like many families are tasked with navigating childcare during the school holidays.Rachel has now shared that she and Pasha are taking turns with looking after their daughters so she can focus on work until Pasha goes on tour in September.Pasha is set to join his fellow Strictly pros Brendan Cole, James Jordan, Vincent Simone, and Ian Waite for the Legends Of The Dancefloor Tour, which will travel round the country this autumn.Rachel told The Daily Mail that she and Pasha always make a conscious effort to ‘check each other’s diaries’ when they agree to new projects to make sure one of them is ‘always at home’ with their children.The Countdown star, who has partnered with Energizer for their new Summer Safety swap campaign, said: ‘Juggle is the optimum word. Before we do anything, we have to kind of check each other’s diaries.  Rachel Riley has confessed she and her husband Pasha Kovalev can be like ‘ships passing in the night’ as they juggle parenting their daughters Mave, six, and Noa, four ‘So he’s about to go on tour with the boys, so there’s five of them going around the country from September through to the middle of November.’Summer often in this industry is bit quieter. My work’s kind of like screeched up, to try and get as much done before he goes away so that most of the time one of us is home. But it’s not always possible, unfortunately. ‘I think it’s good for the kids to have role models where you go out to work and you’ve got your own life as well and trying to teach them about the value of money, etc. ‘But we definitely prefer it if one of us is at home so often ships that pass in the night because I try and arrange work when he’s not there and the other way around.’Rachel shared that Pasha was able to spend ‘loads of time’ with their daughters when they were babies after all of his stage work was cancelled during the Covid pandemic.She added: ‘When they were younger, I had the boobs, and that was the difference with the parenting. Now that’s not an issue, we’re just kind of equal. It’s really nice.’Rachel went on to share that she feels women ‘naturally’ take on a majority of the responsibilities when it comes to raising a family.She said: ‘I think whether in the public eye or whether you’re working in an office… I think naturally the women take on a lot of the workload and the birthday parties and the presents and the ”I need to get a thank you card for this person and I need to do a non-uniform day here.” The Countdown star said that she and Pasha always make a conscious effort to ‘check each other’s diaries’ when they agree to projects to ensure one of them is ‘always at home’ Rachel Riley has partnered with Energizer to encourage families to check their homes for hidden battery hazards and replace old lithium coin batteries’It’s just all those things, if it’s down to two, things fall down the crack.’So I think naturally it goes to one person and more often than not, from my experiences, it’s the woman. But so long as the kids are happy, I think it’s Yin and Yang, isn’t it? He takes the bins out!’Rachel has partnered with Energizer for their new Summer Safety Swap campaign, which aims to raise awareness of the dangers of small lithium batteries if they are accidentally swallowed.She said: ‘We don’t necessarily talk about battery safety and with all the summer holidays, kids are around a lot more at home, so it’s a good time to check that everything’s safe and especially you might be going to grandparents that you don’t go too often.’They’ve got the world’s only battery that if you ingest it, it’s got burn-proof, it’s like burn protection technology on it. If it comes into contact with saliva, it turns the mouth blue, it tastes disgusting, it’s got chlidproof packaging and things like that.’Because often you don’t really hear about the dangers of batteries until there’s some kind of horrible tragedy, and then it’s like a kick up the bum, and I think with parents… ‘When something happens to somebody then everybody warns each other about the dangers of it and then you can get away, get ahead and prevention is better than cure, especially with summer holidays and we’ve been having play dates and stuff with groups of friends and even though mine are four and six, so I kind of just about trust them, pretty much now, but then siblings are coming around as well.’So you’ve got everyone from teenagers to little babies and the house is definitely not baby proof at the moment, so it’s just good to have it on your mind of the potential hazards so you can make sure that batteries, anything you know you’re changing. ‘They go away from kids and you’ve got disposed of them properly and recycle them properly. So I think it’s just a good reminder. Prevention is better.’Rachel Riley has partnered with Energizer to encourage families to check their homes for hidden battery hazards and replace old lithium coin batteries with the new Energizer Ultimate Child Shield™ batteries, the world’s only lithium coin battery that prevents ingestion burns if swallowed.