Victoria Coren compered last night’s £30,000 Threadneedle Prize for painting and sculpture at the Mall Galleries off Trafalgar Square.
“I do like representational stuff but I wouldn’t want to do down abstract art, which makes a valuable point about humanity — that it’s almost impossible to paint faces,” she told me. Viewers of her quiz show Only Connect were thrilled that she interviewed Michael Portillo in the ceremony. During a 2012 episode, she admitted wanting to find the former MP naked in her dressing room, seated on a crate of wine. “I hope he hasn’t seen it,” she joked.Reuse content