Victoria Coren Mitchell is a writer, broadcaster, presenter and a competitive international poker player. She writes a weekly column for The Observer, a monthly column for Elle and is the resident agony aunt for GQ. She presents the quiz show Only Connect, presents and produces the Radio 4 comedy series Heresy, and is a competitive international poker player, to date the only person to have won two titles on the European Poker Tour.
As a broadcaster, she has presented Fourth Column and Off The Page for Radio 4 and two series of Balderdash And Piffle, as well as documentaries on language, surrealist art and Mary Poppins. As a poker and gambling specialist, she has presented Late Night Poker and The Poker Nations Cup, a series of World Poker Tour and the chat show Bar Beat for the Poker Channel, as well as providing commentary for The European Poker Tour and The Grosvenor UK Poker Tour, Ultimate Poker Challenge, Celebrity Poker Challenge , The William Hill Grand Prix, Celebrity Poker Club and Casino Casino.
She has also appeared as a guest on Question Time, Have I Got News For You, QI, Eight Out Of Ten Cats, Opinionated, You Have Been Watching, Loose Ends, Midweek, Woman’s Hour and various other short-term experiments.
