Inside Last One Laughing UK star David Mitchell and wife Victoria Coren’s family life with their two children
David never saw himself as a family man
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19 Mar 2026, 16:03
David Mitchell, 51, who is starring in Series 2 of Last One Laughing UK, discussed his children with his wife, Victoria Coren, 53, on the show.
During the second episode, titled Imagine the Paperwork, fellow comedian Bob Mortimer, who won the first series, asked David how old his children were.
At the time of filming, he said: “One is 10, and the other is 20 months.”
The married couple, who tied the knot in 2012, have kept their family life rather lowkey throughout the years. However, they haven’t been shy of opening up from time to time…
David and Victoria share two daughters (Credit: Splashnews.com)
David Mitchell children with wife Victoria
In May 2015, comedian David and presenter and professional poker player Victoria welcomed their first child, Barbara. In an interview with Radio Times last year, Victoria insisted she is similar to her mother.
“My 10-year-old loves The Masked Singer and old episodes of Poirot, just like her mother,” she said.
Meanwhile, their youngest child, June, who is now two years old, is also a TV fan.
“She loves Bluey – an excellent TV show – but she doesn’t know it’s a TV show. She just thinks it’s a source of really great plastic dog Weebles,” she added.
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Victoria was 51 when she gave birth to her second child, and David was 49. The pair kept the pregnancy a secret until after Victoria gave birth.
The news arrived after she posted a picture of herself in a red cloak for Halloween.
Writing on X, Victoria said: “Many people are assuming my tweet yesterday was a Halloween costume. Not at all; last week I had a baby and nothing currently fits me except cloaks.”
Baby U-turn
Despite having two children, Victoria once admitted she didn’t want to start a family.
In an interview with The Standard in 2012, Victoria, 40 at the time, revealed she never felt the need to become a mother in her early to mid-twenties when her friends began wanting children.
Victoria said she was “slightly obsessed with children” and never ruled out becoming a parent, but admitted her lifestyle at the time simply wasn’t “right” for it.
“I never had that point that a lot of my friends went through in their early to mid-twenties when they decided that they absolutely wanted children. But I am slightly obsessed with children,” she said. However, she added: “I absolutely still might.”
Victoria explained how she would consider adopting. Although it wasn’t convenient at the time, explaining her job involved “running around the world playing poker and staying out until five in the morning”.
David also didn’t always imagine himself as a family man, either.
“I hadn’t seen myself as someone who would necessarily get married or have a family,” he told the Belfast Telegraph in 2019.
“It was very much meeting Victoria which made me think, ‘Oh, now if I don’t spend my life with her, it would be awful’, and then having a child came from that. It wasn’t like a life plan.”
David and Victoria welcomed their first child in 2015 (Credit: Splashnews.com)
‘The real downside of parenthood’
After welcoming their eldest daughter, Barbara, David talked about the responsibilities of having children.
“Unfortunately, there is nothing like having a tiny child whose safety you are responsible for to make you worry,” he said on the Jonathan Ross Show in 2018.
David added: “You really don’t want the world to spin into the sun and explode. You thought you didn’t want it before, but you really don’t want it [after having a child]. That is the real downside of parenthood, and I suppose any form of love, is it makes you fear more… I would say love is not a stress reduction exercise, is it?”
David never thought he would be a family man (Credit: Splashnews.com)
‘Frightening’ thoughts
David, who became a first-time dad at 41, also discussed the “frightening” reality of parenthood with the Belfast Telegraph.
“I’m probably more fearful in middle age,” he admitted. “I now have a wife and a child, so in terms of society breaking down and the world collapsing, it’s more frightening than when there’s just you.”
Since having his Barbara, David said his priorities have changed massively.
“When it was just me on my own, things being probably fine was just good enough. But probably fine isn’t good enough when I’m thinking about my child. Suddenly you need things to be definitely fine – and things are never definitely fine, and that’s frightening,” he said.
“Your focus completely changes. You stay in a lot more and sleep a lot less. But I still do the same job and I love my job in the same way and Victoria similarly, but there’s always something in your mind which is a different priority, a home you have to keep safe and supplied, and make sure that our daughter is happy and seeing us a lot.”
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