Bachelor poker fans from around the globe must feel quite ambivalent over the most recent news in Victoria Coren’s life.

Of course on the surface, the engagement of the lovely and multi-talented Team PokerStars pro is disheartening to all those who dreamed of the one-in-a-million chance of wooing Victoria one day. After all, she’s successful: she has well over a million dollars in career live tournament winnings, and then she has her healthy list of TV credits. She’s also a modern Renaissance woman: on top of the TV slots and being the first woman to ever win an EPT event, she’s been a published writer since she was 14 and has written 3 books. She has a good heart: Miss Coren has donated sizable chunks of many of her tournament scores, and there’s that unique story where she planned and successfully executed a sting to catch funeral crashers. And all of this has gone without mentioning her famed looks.

But for these same who might be disheartened by the engagement, they may be encouraged by whom she’s marrying. No disrespect is meant toward David Mitchell, but his BAFTA-winning style that has made him a legend of comedy in the UK (and in cult circles in other parts of the world) has made him a symbol of the down-and-out and the hopelessly bachelored. His skit show with fellow comedian Robert Webb, That Mitchell and Webb Look, had a running joke about Mitchell’s difficulties “getting laid”—especially pointed out whenever he was overly analytical or pedantic.

And, of course, his famous character Mark Corrigan is arguably the most modern and relatable representations of someone who works in direct opposition of all that is cool. Painfully self-conscious (stating at one point that he feels guilty about everything from pollution caused by Chinese industrialization to wearing some boxers more than others), he finds everything from drugs to unorthodox bedroom actions to be revolting. His luck with dating refuses to turn around until he meets a girl that everyone calls “Dobby,” a reference to the dumpy sad-sap servant from the Harry Potter series.

It goes without saying that the last three words that could ever be used to describe Miss Coren (soon to be Mrs. Mitchell) are “dumpy,” “sad-sap” and “servant.” So, it has to be taken as a win for all the little guys when the real life version of the story is the one that turns out like a fairy tale.

The Coren/Mitchell story seems like a win for everyone when two brilliantly talented and famously personable people can simply end up happily together—no further questions asked, no arbitrary criteria deemed necessary.