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BBC Only Connect: Victoria Coren Mitchell credits comedian David Baddiel for 'love at first sight' meeting with David Mitchell

Victoria Coren Mitchell is the host of BBC Only Connect and makes up one half of British comedy's biggest power couples.

In 2012, the professional poker player married David Mitchell, the star of hit series Peep Show, who has featured on shows such as Would I Lie To You?, QI and That Mitchell and Webb Look.

In true comedy style, the couple have a sweet but hilarious story of how they first met - with fellow comedian and national treasure David Baddiel playing a massive part in getting them together.

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The couple-to-be had both attended the same film premiere when David took upon the role of matchmaker.

Victoria revealed: “He specifically said to me, ‘There’s David Mitchell over there, I think you should probably marry him, I’ll get the ball rolling by introducing you'.”

Simple, but effective.

She joked that the notion was ridiculous at first, but a few hours later she came around to the idea that David’s prediction might actually be true.

The Only Connect presenter and Peep Show actor had a brief relationship back in 2007, but rekindled their romance a few years later in 2010.

The pair waltzed down the aisle back in 2012 and are due to celebrate their ninth wedding anniversary later this year.

They welcomed their daughter Barbara Elizabeth June Mitchell in 2015.

Victoria told the Telegraph in 2013 that she felt lucky to be married to David.

She said: “I mean, he's a hugely successful television comedian, he could have had a gorgeous 24-year-old skinny wife with a tiny nose and a string bikini, but he chose me! Me!

"I am filled with this bizarre mix of thinking David could have done a lot better than me and feeling we're so alike and complement each other so wonderfully that we are the ideal match and couldn't possibly be with anyone else.”

Her husband shared the pride he felt about being with her in a 2018 interview with The Times.

David said: “I feel very lucky. If I had thought that [asking her to marry me] would not have seemed mad earlier, I would definitely have done it.

“I am just incredibly proud that someone like Victoria wants to be with me.

"She has these amazing qualities, but fundamentally, we clicked. I fell in love with her.”

Looks like David Baddiel should take up matchmaking full time.

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