[10][11][12] She recalls not fitting in to the culture at St Paul's, stating, "My parents sent me to a very posh school in West London.
During a Channel 4 broadcast, she explained that one Telegraph reader had written to her, criticising her column and had used a very great number of swear words, all in Latin.
[14] Her books include Love 16[15] and Once More, with Feeling, about her attempt (with co-author Charlie Skelton) to make "the greatest porn film ever".
[citation needed] Victoria and Giles Coren wrote an introduction to Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks, an anthology of the best comic writing by their father Alan, published by Canongate in October 2008.
[24] In 2007, after the death of her father, having put a notice in The Times inviting those who knew him to attend a service, she was warned by a friend that a "gang of serial funeral crashers" based in the south of England were checking death notices to find funerals and memorial services to crash for their own enjoyment.
A week later, she placed another notice in The Times "in the guise of his grieving boyfriend Peter" for his memorial service "followed by a drinks reception".
[30] During her poker career, she has become a close friend of The Hendon Mob and mixes weekly home games with frequent visits to two regular casinos.
[citation needed] On 24 September 2006, she won the main event of the European Poker Tour London, earning a prize of £500,000 and defeating Australian professional Emad Tahtouh.
[31] On 20 November 2011 she finished second in the International Federation of Poker's inaugural The Table World Championship, eventually losing heads-up with 29-year-old Spaniard Raul Mestre.
[44][45] In April 2012 she reported that she was terrified of flying, and in August 2012 she confirmed on Twitter that the therapist she had been seeing to address her fear had been killed in a plane crash.