After university, she became a freelance journalist and broadcaster. Hooked on trade immediately, Victoria answered a nationwide appeal from the Daily Telegraph for a teenage columnist (her ‘audition column’ was about the terrors of the countryside for an urban child), got the job and wrote for them weekly for four years.Ī collection of Victoria’s teenage newspaper articles was published in 1990. The story was accepted and published, earning her the princely sum of £90. She presents the BBC Four (now BBC Two) 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.Īged 14, inspired by lonely Jo March from Little Women, Victoria submitted a short story to Just Seventeen magazine under an assumed name. Victoria Coren Mitchell writes a weekly column for The Observer, a monthly column for Elle and is the resident agony aunt for GQ.
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