Victoria Elizabeth Coren Mitchell is a British writer, presenter and professional poker player.
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20 Facts About Victoria Coren
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Victoria Elizabeth Coren was born in Hammersmith, West London, the only daughter of the humourist and journalist Alan Coren and Anne Kasriel.
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Victoria Coren's father had been brought up in an Orthodox Jewish household.
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Victoria Coren grew up in Cricklewood, North London, with her elder brother, journalist Giles Coren.
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Victoria Coren attended independent girls' schools between the ages of five and eighteen, including St Paul's Girls' School, and read English at St John's College, Oxford.
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At the age of 14, Victoria Coren had a short story published under a pseudonym in Just Seventeen magazine and then won a competition in The Daily Telegraph to write a column about teenage life for their "Weekend" section, which she continued writing during her own teenage years.
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Victoria Coren's books include Love 16 and Once More, with Feeling, about her attempt to make "the greatest porn film ever".
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Victoria Coren 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, before she adapted it again for a BBC Two docudrama with Neil Pearson, broadcast in 2001.
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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.
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Victoria Coren created "Sir William Ormerod" and placed a death notice.
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Victoria Coren reported that the group duly claimed to have known Ormerod and applied for tickets.
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Victoria Coren has written articles in the Observer and The Guardian about her experience.
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Victoria 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 and a televised celebrity tournament, and the first player to win two European Poker Tour Main Events.
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Victoria Coren appeared in five episodes of Late Night Poker, although she never made it to a series grand final.
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Victoria Coren received $100,000 for second place, $10,000 of which she donated to Age UK.
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Victoria Coren has 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.
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Victoria Coren said she was uncomfortable about potential addiction by vulnerable people to a site where the odds are in favour of the operator, and did not want to be associated with such an operation.
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Victoria Coren Mitchell was inducted into the Women in Poker Hall of Fame in 2016.
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On 20 March 2012, Victoria Coren announced her engagement to actor and comedian David Mitchell.
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