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Victoria Coren Mitchell has revealed she almost had a very different life after being set up with a famous politician.
The Only Connect host, 52, married Peep Show actor David Mitchell in 2012 and share two children together.
However, Victoria almost dated Ed Miliband, she’s revealed, though things didn’t quite work out.
Speaking on the BBC gameshow yesterday, after a question involving the 2010 Labour leadership result with brothers Ed and David Miliband, Manchester mayor Andy Burnham and Good Morning Britain host Ed Balls, Victoria shared: ‘Someone once tried to set me up with Ed Miliband.’
She went on to explain: ‘We were seated next to each other at a wedding.
‘He’s actually a very nice chap, it didn’t work out.
‘He was gallant enough that ages later we were on a political chat show together, and he claimed: “Oh I had no idea it was meant to be a fix up.”‘
Victoria branded Ed Miliband ‘a very nice chap’ (Picture: Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Victoria almost had a very different life (Picture: BBC)
Fans were shocked at the revelation, with @NorbertEFresno writing on X that the presenter ‘dodged a bullet’.
‘Just imagine Victoria Coren Miliband,’ @Rndheadedmoron laughed.
@VictorianDad2 said: ‘God, I love Victoria. That Ed Miliband anecdote was short and sweet.’
David and Victoria tend to keep their private lives and children out of the spotlight, having welcomed their eight-year-old Barbara Elizabeth June Mitchell in 2015 and June Violet in October 2023.
Victoria married David Mitchell in 2012 (Picture: David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images)
The couple tend to keep their marriage and family life away from the spotlight (Picture: Dan Wooller/REX)
Last month, Ludwig star David, 50, addressed the fact that they rarely speak about their marriage or relationship.
He told RadioTimes: ‘The thing about it is – in an interview people often ask about her. And when I’m asked about her, I’m going to say that I love her and she’s amazing.
‘But I wouldn’t have brought her up. And I don’t mean that disrespectfully. She’s often on my mind.
‘At the same time, I think I have a very happy marriage to a wonderful person, but I don’t consider that to be of broader interest.
They first began dating in 2007, after being set up by David Baddiel (Picture: Karwai Tang/WireImage)
‘And so I always feel in this situation that I don’t want to be coy and say, “I refuse to discuss my wife – let’s talk about scene 15, it’s such a wonderful puzzle.” But at the same time, by answering the implication can be that, “He can’t stop going on about his wife – OK. You like your wife. Get over it.”‘
The couple married at a church in Belsize Park in 2012, with David’s Peep Show co-star Robert Webb as his best man and Claudia Winkleman as one of Victoria’s bridesmaids.
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Source:: Metro
