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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Rupert Jones

Victoria Coren Mitchell: Ovo pocketed thousands ‘they were not owed’

Victoria Coren Mitchell headshot smiling
Victoria Coren Mitchell told her 700,000 followers on X she had ‘reached the end of the road’. Photograph: James Veysey/Rex/Shutterstock

The writer and broadcaster Victoria Coren Mitchell has indicated she may take legal action after claiming that her energy provider, Ovo Energy, wrongly pocketed thousands of pounds “that they were not owed”.

She is the most high-profile Ovo customer yet to apparently be on the receiving end of incorrect bills. Her case prompted the consumer group Which? to call for “the worst performers” in the energy sector, which it said included Ovo, to take urgent action to improve their customer service.

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