Countdown's Rachel Riley inundated with 'disgusting' X-rated Instagram pictures

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Countdown star Rachel Riley has revealed she's often ent "invasive and disgusting" messages via her Instagram page.The broadcaster, 36, who boasts over 500,000 followers claims she is sent sexual videos and pictures as well as misogynistic abuse from her followers on the photo-sharing app.Rachel who is an ambassador for the Centre for Countering Digitial Hate explained that the unsolicited messages she receives often make her want to stop checking her private messages from fans.She claims the messages are "revolting" and the vile messages "empower" those that send them to her direct messages.Rachel said: "It really makes me not want to go into my DMs at all because it's revolting."It's astounding to know that strangers are sending porn - it empowers them to know that it's gone to your inbox."She went on to add: "On Instagram, anyone can privately send you something that should be illegal, if they did it on the street, they'd be arrested."For women in the public eye, receiving a constant stream of rude, inappropriate and even abusive messages to your DMs [direct messages] is unfortunately inevitable, and the fact that this happens away from public view makes it all the more intrusive."Instagram and other platforms have a duty to keep the women who use their sites safe, but at the moment there isn't enough being done to protect them."However, the mum-of-one added that she believes social media platforms are not working harder to stop the messages, despite reporting them."I just think all social media are not fit to regulate themselves, clearly," she claimed.Rachel added: "They've got the technology to identify that this content is revolting, but these users still have the technology to send unsolicited images to.