Biography
Victoria Coren Mitchell is a professional poker player, TV presenter, and writer from the United Kingdom. Since 2008, she has hosted the BBC television quiz program Only Connect and writes weekly essays for The Daily Telegraph.
Between the ages of five and 18, she attended independent girls’ institutions, including St Paul’s Girls’ School, and studied English at St John’s College, Oxford.
Victoria Coren Mitchell Age
She is 51 years old as of 17th August 2023. She was born on 18 August 1972 in Hammersmith, London, England, UK. Her birth name is Victoria Elizabeth Coren.
Victoria Coren Mitchell Spouse
Victoria has been married to David Mitchel since November 2012. They first met at a film premiere in 2007 and had a short-lived series of dates.
Victoria Coren Mitchell Family (Parents and Siblings)
Victoria was born in Hammersmith, West London, the only daughter of the humourist and journalist Alan Coren and Anne Kasriel. Her father had been brought up in an Orthodox Jewish household. She grew up in Cricklewood, North London, with her elder brother, journalist Giles Coren. She is related to Canadian journalist Michael Coren.
Weight Loss
There hasn’t been any official word about Victoria Coren Mitchell’s weight loss. Her thin body, on the other hand, has captivated her devotees. To maintain weight, the writer may adhere to stringent diets and exercise regimens.
Victoria Coren Illness
There is no official indication that she is sick. She appeared to be healthy and fine in public.
Poker
Mitchell is a well-known poker player who has won multiple European Poker Tour events, including two European Poker Tour Main Events (EPT London 2006 and EPT Sanremo 2014). She has also been a commentator and broadcaster on several poker shows, including Sky Sports’ William Hill Poker Grand Prix 2, Channel 4’s Late Night Poker and The Poker Nations Cup, and ITV2’s World Poker Tour. Mitchell has been close to The Hendon Mob and has participated in five episodes of Late Night Poker, including a cameo in the 2003 Hold’Em 100 tournament in London.
She won the main event of the European Poker Tour London in 2006, winning a £500,000 jackpot and defeating Australian professional Emad Tahtouh. She finished second in the first The Table World Championship of the International Federation of Poker in 2011, losing to Spaniard Raul Mestre. She won $100,000 for finishing second, $10,000 of which she gave to Age UK. She won the European Poker Tour San Remo main event in 2014, earning €476,100 and becoming the first player to win two EPT titles.
Mitchell was a member of Team PokerStars Pro, but she retracted her endorsement in November 2014 owing to concerns about vulnerable people becoming addicted to online casinos. She enjoys smoking, drinking, gaming, cooking, and gardening, and she was inducted into the Women in Poker Hall of Fame in 2016.
Career
She is a British writer, TV presenter, and professional poker player. She writes weekly columns for The Daily Telegraph and has hosted the BBC
At the age of 14, Coren had a short story published under a pseudonym in Just Seventeen magazine and then won a competition in The Daily Telegraph to write a column about teenage life for their “Weekend” section, which she continued writing during her own teenage years. During a Channel 4 broadcast, she explained that one Telegraph reader had written to her, criticizing her column, and had used a very great number of swear words, all in Latin.
Her books include Love 16 and Once More, with Feeling, about her attempt (with co-author Charlie Skelton) to make “the greatest porn film ever”.Their jobs reviewing porn films for the Erotic Review led them to believe that most of what they were watching was terrible and that they could make better films themselves.
She adapted the newspaper columns of John Diamond into a play called A Lump in My Throat, which was performed during the 2000 Edinburgh Festival at the Assembly Rooms, the Grace Theatre, and the New End Theatre in London before she adapted it again for a BBC Two docudrama with Neil Pearson, broadcast in 2001.
Victoria and Giles Coren wrote an introduction to Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks, an anthology of the best comic writing by their father Alan, published by Canongate in October 2008
