He also presented 5 live Sport[1] for the station, and commentated on rugby league, snooker and darts for BBC TV and radio, until being suspended in 2017 following several allegations of sexual harassment.
He presented the BBC's Late Kick Off Football League show in 2013, in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.
Riley appeared as himself in Armando Iannucci's award-winning political satire The Thick Of It[6] in 2009.
According to both The Times and The Guardian (April 21, 2019), George Riley resigned from BBC Radio 5 Live before an investigation was completed into allegations of sexual assault against him were made by at least eight women.
Riley is a charity ambassador for Joseph's Goal[7] and the Steve Prescott Foundation (SPF),[8] for whom he runs regular marathons.