Victoria Coren Mitchell

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Victoria is an English writer, presenter, and professional poker player.

She writes weekly columns for The Telegraph and has hosted the BBC television quiz show Only Connect since 2008.

At the age of 14 she 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 for several years.

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”.

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 he brother, 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.

Her poker memoir For Richer, For Poorer: A Love Affair with Poker was published in September 2009.

[Source: Wikipedia, 28/06/2021.]