Victoria Coren Mitchell is a writer, TV presenter and professional poker player.She also often appears in TV series such as 8 out of 10 cats and would I lie to you?
She has been a passionate writer from a young age and had a short story published in Just Seventeen magazine when she was 14
She is also the first woman to win an event on the European Poker Tour, the first player to win both a professional televised tournament (EPT London 2006) and a televised celebrity tournament (Celebrity Poker Club 2005), and the first player to win two Main Events of the European Poker Tour (EPT London 2006 and EPT Sanremo 2014)
Victoria once revealed her fellow comedian David Baddiel played a major role in forming the couple
She told RadioTimes: « [Baddiel] specifically told me, ‘There’s David Mitchell over there, I think you should probably marry him, I’m going to kick things off by introducing you »
« I thought it was ridiculous but, a few hours later, I thought I would probably marry him »
They had a short relationship in 2007, but rekindled their romance three years later in 2010
The couple married in 2012 and had a baby girl, Barbara Elizabeth June Mitchell, in 2015
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