A loyal household man, David Mitchell is besotted with his wife, author and Only Connect presenter Victoria Coren Mitchell, and their two daughters: Barbara, 10, and June Violet, two. Famed for his comedic roles in Peep Show, Upstart Crow, and Ludwig, the TV star has actually loved a profitable profession, however in line with David, it was Victoria who actually modified his life.
© Shane Anthony Sinclair, GettyWriting in his 2012 autobiography, Back Story, the actor mirrored on his first assembly with Victoria at a movie premiere in 2007. “I changed then,” he recalled. “Everything that happened to me after that moment, even incidental things, are in a different context, a new world where different things matter.” The TV stars did not get collectively till three years later, leaving David “hopelessly in love” and with “enormous sadness”, however after Victoria got here again into his life in 2010, they shortly hit it off and tied the knot two years later.
Fast-forward to 2026, and David and Victoria have been fortunately married for 14 years and share two daughters, Barbara and June. Here’s what we find out about their lovable household life away from the cameras…
David Mitchell’s fatherhood journey
In a 2019 interview with RTE, David famous that he hadn’t made any type of “life plan” earlier than assembly Victoria. “I hadn’t seen myself as someone who would necessarily get married or have a family,” the comic defined. “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.”
Three years after their 2012 wedding ceremony, David and Victoria welcomed their oldest daughter, Barbara, now 10. Speaking with The Times in 2018, David mentioned: “She’s amazing. Extremely talkative and she likes imagining things, telling stories and being characters and explaining to me who she is in one of her stories.”
© Getty ImagesDuring a 2018 look on The Jonathan Ross Show, David additionally admitted that changing into a father had left him with new issues to fret about. “Unfortunately, there is nothing like having a tiny child whose safety you are responsible for to make you worry,” he remarked.
“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? What you want is a long period of bland contentment… I’m a family man. I’ve made bad choices and I am constantly worried.”
© Getty ImagesIn 2023, when Victoria was 51, she and David shocked followers by revealing that they’d secretly welcomed a second daughter named June Violet. “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,” Victoria introduced on the time. “Luckily, Only Connect is a pre-record. Happy All Saints Day!”
Since changing into a household of 4, Victoria and David have made a acutely aware effort to maintain their kids out of the highlight, though now and again they’ve shared some candy particulars about Barbara and June. “My 10-year-old loves The Masked Singer and old episodes of Poirot, just like her mother,” Victoria advised Radio Times. “The baby doesn’t have any screen time; she’s only 18 months old. 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.”
