Renowned for her flirtatious manner of presenting, Nigella Lawson has been called the "queen of food porn". She is neither a trained chef nor cook, and has assumed a distinctly relaxed approach to her cooking.
Disturbing photographs surfaced of the British television star and celebrity chef with what appears to be her husband, art and advertising magnate Charles Saatchi, clenching her throat in public. In the pictures, his hand is at her throat as she appears to be stunned by his grasp. In another picture, the man is grabbing at Lawson's nose as she shuts her eyes.
Married in September 2003, Nigella
Lawson and Charles Saatchi were always an unlikely couple. Saatchi dismissed the incident as a "playful tiff", but shortly after the incident nigella left her home with a single suitcase prompting rumors that the marriage was over. There will be
many in London who will say her decision to leave the family home has come not
a moment too soon, and urge her to stay away for good, whatever her husband
might say.
The art world maintains a fierce loyalty and gratitude to Saatchi, despite these new pictures, shocking as they are. However, even his most devoted fans would admit that Saatchi has experienced a prolonged period of creative decline since his heyday. The rise of Nigella's career while Saatchi's declines may play an important role in the end of their marriage.
Her show Nigella Bites spawned another award winning, best-selling cookbook by the same title. In 2006 Nigella joined the Food Network hosting Nigella Feasts.
You can look for Nigella on The Cooking Channel in the U. S. A. or visit her website.
The story saddened me because I knew a little about Nigella's history and had watched her TV cooking shows, including Nigella Kitchen, Nigella Bites and Nigella Express. Despite the cheery good-natured manner that has
won her millions of fans, Nigella has lived through great tragedy in her own
personal life. Her mother, the heiress and society beauty Vanessa Salmon,
died of liver cancer at the age of 49 in 1985, after divorcing her father, former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Nigel Lawson.
Nigella’s
sister, Thomasina, died of breast cancer in 1993 at the age of 32, and then, in
2001, her first husband, the journalist John Diamond, died of throat cancer
after chronicling the disease in remorseless detail in a column in The
Sunday Times.
Nigella
and Diamond had two children, Cosima and Bruno, now 19 and 17, and Nigella has
also been a full-time stepmother to Saatchi’s daughter, Phoebe, from a previous
marriage.
Nigella graduated from Oxford University and started her career as a book reviewer and restaurant critic, later becoming the deputy literary editor of The Sunday Times in 1986. her career as a freelance journalist led to her first cookbook, How To Eat, a best-seller which sold 300,000 copies. her second cookbook, How to be a Domestic Goddess, won her the British Book Award for author of the Year.
Having
conquered the U.K. with her TV shows and cook books, her success continues to unfold day to day. Nigella has now turned
her attention to the U.S., where her appearance as a judge on ABC’s The
Taste received positive reviews. Her net worth is estimated at $15 million while husband Charles Saachi, one of Britain's richest men has an estimated net worth of $100 million.
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