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==Early life== Coren was born in [[Paddington]], London, the only son of Anne (nΓ©e Kasriel) and English journalist and humourist [[Alan Coren]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thejc.com/lifestyle/food/why-food-critic-giles-coren-loves-to-eat-cholent-1.473885 |title=Giles Coren: 'I could eat cholent all day, every day'|website=www.thejc.com|date=13 December 2018 |access-date=2019-12-19}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.esquire.co.uk/culture/features/9113/giles-coren-moves-to-the-country/|title=Giles Coren Moves To The Country|last=Leaf|first=Chris|date=2015-11-13|website=Esquire|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-12-19|archive-date=18 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160118172431/http://www.esquire.co.uk/culture/features/9113/giles-coren-moves-to-the-country/|url-status=dead}}</ref> His parents had been brought up in an [[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox Jewish]] household, but his own upbringing was less Orthodox.<ref>{{cite news |title=Giles Coren: 'My great-grandad probably bullied Ben Gurion at cheder' |url=https://www.thejc.com/news/giles-coren-my-great-grandad-probably-bullied-ben-gurion-at-cheder-nkf9u1zi |access-date=27 May 2024 |work=[[The Jewish Chronicle]] |date=28 July 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jewishtelegraph.com/prof_342.html|title=A Jewish Telegraph Newspaper|website=www.jewishtelegraph.com|access-date=2019-12-19}}</ref> He is the elder brother of journalist [[Victoria Coren Mitchell]] and is also related to journalist [[Michael Coren]].<ref>"I seldom hear about her [Heather Mallick], but did when she wrote an obsessively fawning piece after the British author and journalist Alan Coren died. The reason was that the noted editor and TV personality was my cousin, and a dear man who helped me more than I can say and whom I miss very much." Opinion column by Michael Coren entitled [http://www.ottawasun.com/2013/12/05/canada-a-rogue-state-hardly "Canada: A rogue state?" Hardly] ''Ottawa Sun'' 5 December 2013.</ref>
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