She later re-adapted it into a TV play for BBC2 starring Neil Pearson. In 1999, Victoria adapted the newspaper columns of John Diamond into a play A Lump In My Throat, which was performed at The Grace Theatre and The New End Theatre in London and The Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh. After university, she became a freelance Journalist and broadcaster.

Hooked on trade immediately, Victoria answered a nationwide appeal from the Daily Telegraph for a teenage columnist (her ‘audition column’ was about the terrors of the countryside for an urban child), got the job and wrote for them weekly for four years.Ī collection of Victoria’s teenage newspaper articles was published in 1990. The story was accepted and published, earning her £90. She presents the BBC quiz show Only Connect, presents and produces the Radio 4 comedy series Heresy, and is a competitive international poker player, to date the only person to have won two titles on the European Poker Tour.Īt the age or of 14, Victoria submitted a short story to Just Seventeen magazine under an assumed name. Victoria writes a weekly column for The Observer, a monthly column for Elle and is the resident agony aunt for GQ.

As well as regular appearances on panel shows and a range of newspaper and magazine columns, she is the host of one of the toughest quizzes on television, BBC2’s Only Connect.

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