David Mitchell to marry Victoria Coren

David Mitchell to marry Victoria Coren
David Mitchell to marry Victoria Coren (Image credit: PA)

Panel show regulars David Mitchell and Victoria Coren are engaged to be married. The couple, who appeared together in 2010 on BBC quiz show The Bubble, announced their engagement with a notice in The Times. Victoria, who presents quiz show Only Connect on BBC4, thanked fans on Twitter today, saying: "I'm very happy." David, who found fame as bumbling Mark Corrigan in Channel 4's Peep Show, is a regular on panel shows including QI, Mock The Week and Have I Got News For You. Victoria, the daughter of journalist Alan Coren, is a prominent poker player and often writes and broadcasts about the game. She has written several books including Once More With Feeling, which is about her attempt to make a pornographic film. The notice in today's Times' register of births, marriages and deaths lists "Mr D.J.S. Mitchell and Miss V.E. Coren" in the Forthcoming Marriages section. David tweeted: "Having received so many lovely messages today, I'm finally coming round to the idea of the internet. Thank you all. I'm incredibly happy."

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.