Only Connect viewers say Victoria Coren Mitchell ‘dodged a bullet’ after being set up with celebrity

Victoria Coren Mitchell has revealed she astir had a precise antithetic beingness aft being acceptable up with a celebrated politician.

The Only Connect host, 52, joined Peep Show histrion David Mitchell successful 2012 and share 2 children together.

However, Victoria astir dated Ed Miliband, she’s revealed, though things didn’t rather enactment out.

Speaking connected the BBC gameshow yesterday, aft a question involving the 2010 Labour enactment effect with brothers Ed and David Miliband, Manchester politician Andy Burnham and Good Morning Britain big Ed Balls, Victoria shared: ‘Someone erstwhile tried to acceptable maine up with Ed Miliband.’

She went connected to explain: ‘We were seated adjacent to each different astatine a wedding.

‘He’s really a precise bully chap, it didn’t enactment out.

‘He was gallant capable that ages aboriginal we were connected a governmental chat amusement together, and helium claimed: “Oh I had nary thought it was meant to beryllium a hole up.”‘

Fans were shocked astatine the revelation, with @NorbertEFresno penning connected X that the presenter ‘dodged a bullet’.

‘Just ideate Victoria Coren Miliband,’ @Rndheadedmoron laughed.

@VictorianDad2 said: ‘God, I emotion Victoria. That Ed Miliband anecdote was abbreviated and sweet.’

David and Victoria thin to keep their backstage lives and children retired of the spotlight, having welcomed their eight-year-old Barbara Elizabeth June Mitchell successful 2015 and June Violet successful October 2023.

Last month, Ludwig prima David, 50, addressed the information that they seldom talk astir their matrimony oregon relationship.

He told RadioTimes: ‘The happening astir it is – successful an interrogation radical often inquire astir her. And erstwhile I’m asked astir her, I’m going to accidental that I emotion her and she’s amazing.

‘But I wouldn’t person brought her up. And I don’t mean that disrespectfully. She’s often connected my mind.

‘At the aforesaid time, I deliberation I person a precise blessed matrimony to a fantastic person, but I don’t see that to beryllium of broader interest.

‘And truthful I ever consciousness successful this concern that I don’t privation to beryllium coy and say, “I garbage to sermon my woman – let’s speech astir country 15, it’s specified a fantastic puzzle.” But astatine the aforesaid time, by answering the accusation tin beryllium that, “He can’t halt going connected astir his woman – OK. You similar your wife. Get implicit it.”‘

The mates joined astatine a religion successful Belsize Park successful 2012, with David’s Peep Show co-star Robert Webb arsenic his champion antheral and Claudia Winkleman arsenic 1 of Victoria’s bridesmaids. 

They archetypal began dating successful 2007 with comedian David Baddiel playing cupid arsenic Victoria erstwhile revealed to Radio Times: ‘[Baddiel] specifically said to me, “There’s David Mitchell implicit there, I deliberation you should astir apt wed him, I’ll get the shot rolling by introducing you”.’ 

‘I thought that was ridiculous but, a mates of hours later, I thought I astir apt would wed him.’

It wasn’t wholly creaseless sailing though arsenic Victoria and David had a abbreviated narration earlier splitting and past rekindled their romance successful 2010. 

Only Connect airs Mondays astatine 8pm connected BBC Two.

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