Victoria Coren Mitchell

Biography

Victoria Elizabeth Coren Mitchell (née Coren; born (1972-08-18)18 August 1972) is a British writer, TV presenter and professional poker player. She writes weekly columns for The Daily Telegraph and has hosted the BBC television quiz show Only Connect since its launch in 2008.

• Victoria Elizabeth Coren Mitchell (née Coren; born (1972-08-18)18 August 1972) is a British writer, TV presenter and professional poker player.
• Printed cashes are gross payouts, never profit.

Public career

Victoria Elizabeth Coren Mitchell (née Coren; born (1972-08-18)18 August 1972) is a British writer, TV presenter and professional poker player. She writes weekly columns for The Daily Telegraph and has hosted the BBC television programme *Only Connect* since 2008.

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Public chronology

1. 1972

   Victoria Elizabeth Coren Mitchell (née Coren; born (1972-08-18)18 August 1972) is a British writer, TV presenter and professional poker player. She writes weekly columns for The Daily Telegraph and has hosted the BBC tel

2. 1972

   Victoria Elizabeth Coren was born on 18 August 1972 in Hammersmith, West London, the only daughter of the humorist and journalist Alan Coren and Anne Kasriel. Her parents had been brought up in Orthodox Jewish h

3. 2000

   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,

4. 2008

   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.

5. 2011

   Her poker memoir For Richer, For Poorer: A Love Affair with Poker (the subtitle changed to Confessions of a Player when released in paperback in 2011) was published in September 2009, and was well reviewed in The Times a

6. 2006

   Coren Mitchell was the first woman to win an event on the European Poker Tour, the first player to win both a televised professional tournament (EPT London 2006) and a televised celebrity tournament (Celebrity Poker Club

7. 2006

   On 24 September 2006, she won the main event of the European Poker Tour London, earning a prize of £500,000 and defeating Australian professional Emad Tahtouh. On 20 November 2011 she finished second in the International

8. 2014

   She had been a member of Team PokerStars Pro, but in November 2014, she removed her endorsement a few hours after PokerStars had announced they were starting an online casino. She said she was uncomfortable about potenti

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