BBC’s Victoria Coren Mitchell shares rare update on daughter as she opens up about comedian husband
Victoria Coren Mitchell has shared a rare glimpse into her home life with her husband David Michell and their two children.
The Only Connect host has two daughters with the 51-year-old comedian, 10-year-old Barbra and two-year-June, whom they usually shield from the public eye.
In a rare interview, she gave some insights into her children, revealing her eldest daughter’s most loved TV show is an old fan favourite: “My 10-year-old loves The Masked Singer and old episodes of Poirot, just like her mother”
Speaking to Radio Times Magazine, she added: “The baby doesn’t have any screen time; she’s only 18 months old.”
Although she admitted: “She loves Bluey – an excellent TV show – but she doesn’t know it’s a TV show. She just thinks it’s a source of really great plastic dog Weebles.”
In March 2012, Coren announced her engagement to Mitchell; according to David, the TV duo met at a film premiere in 2007 and had a short-lived series of dates, but only began dating properly in 2010.
The couple married in 2012, and their first daughter was born in May 2015.
Coren Mitchell had shared the news of her pregnancy with June back in November 2023. Taking to X, Victoria posted: “Many people are assuming my tweet yesterday was a Halloween costume.
“Not at all; last week I had a baby, and nothing currently fits me except cloaks.
“Luckily, Only Connect is a pre-recorded. Happy All Saints Day.”
Last summer, Victoria and David were all smiles as they were spotted together without their children.
It marked one of their first public appearances together since their surprise baby announcement 10 months earlier.
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Aside from presenting BBC Only Connect, Coren is a professional poker player. She was the first woman to win an event on the European Poker Tour and the first to win a televised professional tournament.
In 2014 she made poker history by becoming the first two-time winner of the European Poker Tour.
Coren beat 556 competitors to win a cash prize of £391,932 and a watch worth more than £4,000 in Sanremo, Italy.
Coren Mitchell has also recently become host of a different game show, with the mother-of-two fronting Have I Got News For You regularly since May.
She’s best-known for hosting BBC’s Only Connect, having fronted the quiz show since 2008, and made herself known for her sharp wit and diverse personality.
The challenging show first broadcast in 2008 and consists of a tournament-type format in which teams compete by finding connections between seemingly unrelated clues.