Victoria Coren is returning to BBC Two this evening for Only Connect, and it happens to be her 53rd birthday
Victoria Coren has been married to David Mitchell for years (Image: Getty)
Victoria Coren is best known as a professional poker player, writer and television presenter, but she also has a very famous husband, David Mitchell, 51, who has starred on the Channel 4 hit Peep Show and Would I Lie To You? The pair have been married for more than a decade, and it appears as though it was love at first sight for the TV stars, with Victoria making an admission about her relationship.
Victoria confessed that within hours, she knew she would marry David one day. When she was introduced to David by comedian David Baddiel at a film premiere in 2007, she said: “He specifically said to me, ‘There’s David Mitchell over there, I think you should probably marry him, I’ll get the ball rolling by introducing you. I thought that was ridiculous, but a couple of hours later, I thought I would probably marry him.”
The pair share two daughters together (Image: Getty)
The duo connected immediately, but the timing just wasn’t right as she was heartbroken and grieving. Victoria had just lost her father, so she admitted she and David didn’t go on their first date until three years later, in 2010.
David told The Guardian at the time: “I waited three years. Isn’t that weird? Aren’t I odd? I can’t explain it other than to say I couldn’t do anything else.
“If only I’d known I just had to wait three years… I would gladly have suffered 10 times as much.”
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However, they got married two years after their first date, with David stating he would have proposed even sooner if it had not seemed “mad” to do so quite so hastily.
And just a few years after tying the knot, they welcomed their daughters Barbara Elizabeth June Mitchell and June Violet into the world.
David continues to gush about his wife, and wrote in his book: “She’s not only too wonderful, she’s too right for me. She’s funny, bright, sexy, nervous and confident in ways that could have been meant for me. I feel very lucky.”
He added: “I am just incredibly proud that someone like Victoria wants to be with me. She has these amazing qualities, but fundamentally, we clicked. I fell in love with her.
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