In 2006 TV host Victoria Coren won half a million pounds playing which card game?
Victoria Coren Mitchell the couple's daughter in May 2015. Victoria Coren Mitchell Victoria Elizabeth Coren Mitchell (; 18 August 1972) is an English writer, presenter and professional poker player. Coren Mitchell writes weekly columns for "The Observer" and has hosted the BBC television quiz show "Only Connect" since 2008. Victoria Elizabeth Coren was born in Hammersmith, west London, and grew up in Cricklewood, north London, the only daughter of the humourist and journalist Alan Coren and his wife Anne Kasriel. Her brother is the journalist Giles Coren. She is related to the Canadian journalist Michael Coren. She attended independent girls' schools between the
Alan Coren He held the position until 1976. In May 2006, Coren was bitten by an insect that gave him septicaemia, which led to his developing necrotising fasciitis. Coren died from the effects of cancer in 2007 at his home in north London. He was survived by his wife Anne ("née" Kasriel), whom he married in 1963, and their two children, Giles and Victoria, who are both journalists. Victoria is married to comedian David Mitchell. Coren's cousin Michael Coren, who emigrated to Canada to become a journalist, credits him with much help. His body was buried at Hampstead Cemetery in north London.