Only Connect host Victoria Coren Mitchell's next TV job revealed as she teams up with Loose Women and Strictly Come Dancing stars
Only Connect host Victoria Coren Mitchell's next TV job has been revealed - and she's teaming up with Loose Women and Strictly Come Dancing stars.
The BBC star, 52, hosts the complicated quiz show and is now set to feature on something new.
It has been confirmed that Victoria will be a guest host of Have I Got News For You.
She will appear on the popular show on Friday, May 23.
Alongside Victoria will be guest panellists comedian Chris McCausland and broadcaster Janet Street-Porter.
Janet is a regular on ITV 's panel show Loose Women and has been on Have I Got News For You 17 times before.
While Chris appeared on Strictly Come Dancing last year with pro partner Dianne Buswell.
The pair were crowned 2024's champions after the comedian made history as the show's first ever blind contestant.
Chris pipped fellow finalists Tasha Ghouri, JB Gill and Sarah Hadland to the post in the 'best ever' final in December, with his cheeky wit and inspiring story helping to save the show following a year of scandals.
The final, which was the highest-scoring ever, saw all the couples each perform three dances for the judges before hosts Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman announced Chris as the winner of the much sought after Glitterball trophy.
The funnyman broke down in tears as he was embraced by his fellow celebs before throwing Dianne triumphantly over his shoulder while the audience went wild.
Asked how the moment felt by Tess and Claudia, Chris said: 'It's astonishing, I don't know what to say. I honestly thought I was going to go out in the first week or two and I know nobody went out in the first week but I still thought I could.
'We've just lasted and lasted and [Dianne] has got so much out of me and she deserves [the trophy] so much' as he went on to gush over her 'positivity' and 'belief'.
While Victoria has hosted Only Connect since 2008 and is known for her sharp wit.
The BBC show first broadcast in 2008 and consists of a tournament-type format in which teams compete by finding connections between seemingly unrelated clues.
It has so far seen over 500 episodes spanning across 20 series.
Naturally, there have been countless questions on the show that have left both fans and contestants alike baffled.
And the show was recently named one of the most difficult quiz programmes on television, in a survey part of Spin Genie AR's Treasure Quest launch.
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