Victoria Elizabeth Coren Mitchell (nÃÆ' Â © eÃ, Coren ; August 18, 1972) is an English writer, presenter and professional poker player. Coren Mitchell wrote a weekly column for The Observer and has hosted the BBC television Quiz show Just Connect since 2008.
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Victoria Elizabeth Coren was born in Hammersmith, west London, and grew up in Cricklewood, north London, the only humorous daughter and journalist Alan Coren and his wife Anne Kasriel. His brother is a journalist Giles Coren. He is associated with Canadian journalist Michael Coren.
She attended an independent girls school between the ages of five and 18 and read English at St. John's College, Oxford, graduating with a first class degree.
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When he was 14 he had a short story published under a pseudonym in Just Seventeen magazine and then won the competition at The Daily Telegraph to write a column about teenage life for their "Weekends". "The part, which he kept writing for several years.
Her books include Love 16 and Once More, with Feeling , about her business (with coauthor Charlie Skelton) to make "the biggest porn movie ever." Their work reviewing pornographic films for Erotic Reviews makes them believe that most of what they watch is terrible and that they can make better movies of their own.
He adapted the John Diamond newspaper column into a drama called A Lump in my Throat, performed during the Edinburgh 2000 Festival at the Meeting Room, Grace Theater and the New End Theater in London, before he adapted it again to the BBC Two docudrama with Neil Pearson, aired in 2001.
Victoria and Giles Coren wrote an introduction to Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks , an anthology of best comic writing by their father Alan, published by Canongate in October 2008.
His poker memo For Richer, For Poorer: A Love Affair with Poker (subtitle changed to Confessions of a Player when released in paperback in 2011) was published in September 2009 , and is well reviewed in The Times and The Observer .
Lies Ormerod
In December 2008, it was revealed that in 2007 he instigated a hoax to trap the group that came to the memorial service for people they never met. He created the fictional Sir William Ormerod and recently died and advertised in the main English newspaper for his funeral "followed by a drink reception". He reported that the group actually applied for a ticket claiming to have known Ormerod.
Poker
Coren Mitchell was the first woman to win an event on the European Poker Tour, the first player to win a television-backed professional tournament (EPT London 2006) and a celebrity television tournament (Celebrity Poker Club 2005), and the first player to win two Major European Tour Poker Events ( EPT London 2006 and Sanremo EPT 2014). He often plays Texas holding them at the Victoria Casino on Edgware Road London. As a commentator/presenter, she has presented the Poker World Poker and Poker World Cup for Channel 4, World Poker Tour for ITV2 and commented on Monte Carlo EPT, Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (Channel 4), Ultimate Poker Challenge (Channel 5) and William Hill Poker Grand Prix 2 (Sky Sports).
During his career in the poker world, he has become a close friend of The Hendon Mob, and incorporates weekly home games with regular visits to two casinos. She appeared in five episodes of Late Night Poker , even though she never reached the grand final series. However, in Celebrity Poker Club's spin-off Celebrity Poker Club, she defeated Willie Thorne to win two grand final series before joining Jesse May as a commentator in series three. At the 2003 Hold-Em 100 tournament in London he is the guest dealer for the final table.
On September 24, 2006 he won the main event of the European Poker Tour London awarded a prize of £ 500,000 and defeated Australian professional Emad Tahtouh. On November 20, 2011 he finished second in the International Federation of Poker championship, The Table World Championship, eventually losing to 25-year-old Spaniard Raul Mestre. He received $ 100,000 for second place, $ 10,000 he donated to Age UK. In April 2014 he won the main event of the European Poker Tour San Remo, earning EUR476,100 and being the only player to win two EPT titles. Until 2018, the total of his direct tournament victories exceeded $ 2,470,000.
He has been a member of PokerStars Pro Team, but in November 2014 he erased his support a few hours after PokerStars announced they started an online casino. He said he was uncomfortable about potential addiction by vulnerable people to sites where the possibility of supporting the operator, and did not want to be associated with such an operation.
He says that he regularly stays up to 6 Ã, morning, "Smoking and drinking and gambling, but I love cooking and gardening too, which makes me sound like a very strange mix of an old lady and teen boy. "When asked about this he stated:" It's still true, I'll grow one day, but not enough. "
Coren Mitchell was named Women at the Hall of Fame Poker in 2016.
Personal life
On March 20, 2012 he announced his engagement to actor and comedian David Mitchell. According to Mitchell they first met in a movie premiered in 2007, but only started dating three years later. They married in November 2012, and Coren Mitchell gave birth to the couple's daughter in May 2015.
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References
External links
- Official website
- Victoria Coren Mitchell on IMDb
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