Victoria Coren Mitchell’s shock baby news revealed on social media
Congratulatory messages have been sent by celebrity friends to Victoria Coren Mitchell and David Mitchell after the couple revealed they had become parents again. In a surprise post on social media yesterday (November 1), 51-year-old Victoria announced she had given birth to a second daughter.
Her casual birth announcement came a day after she posted on her X, formerly Twitter, and Instagram accounts a picture of her wearing a red cloak on Halloween. Her follow-up post joked that it was not actually a costume, with Victoria writing: “Many people are assuming my tweet yesterday was a Halloween costume,” she wrote.
“Not at all; last week I had a baby and nothing currently fits me except cloaks. Luckily, Only Connect is a pre-record. Happy All Saints Day!”
Along with Victoria’s social media posts, the couple announced their good news to the world in the old-fashioned way – through a newspaper. A notice published in The Times this week reads: “Mitchell. On 26th October 2023 to Victoria and David, a daughter, June Violet, sister to Barbara.”
Victoria’s announcement has received a flood of congratulation messages, including from celebrity chums. Responding to Victoria’s announcement on X, former Bake Off host Sue Perkins said: “Congratulations! xxx.”
David and Victoria have welcomed another child (Image: Getty Images)
Meanwhile, on Instagram, Claudia Winkleman commented three heart emojis. Meanwhile, one fan wrote: “Just saw your news! Awesome, so happy for you all.”
David – who was born in Salisbury – and Victoria first met back in 2007, when they were introduced to one another at a film premiere by comedian David Baddiel. Victoria once recalled: “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’.”
In his 2012 autobiography, Back Story, David wrote of their first meeting: “I was pretty sure she was flirting, but was unwilling to believe my instincts as that seemed too good to be true.”
Although David and Victoria got on like a house on fire, it took three years before the couple went on their first date, as the timing was not right due to the death of Victoria’s dad. Once they finally got together, they were married within two years.
In May 2015, they welcomed Barbara Elizabeth June Mitchell into the world. David wrote in his book that he is “hopelessly in love” with Victoria.
He gushed: “She’s not only too wonderful, she’s too right for me. She’s funny, bright, sexy, nervous and confident in ways that could have been meant for me.”
Although the couple tend to try and keep their personal lives out of the spotlight, they did afford fans a look into their home in 2020, when they appeared on Celebrity Gogglebox. They live in Kilburn, West London.
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