Nigella Lawson

Journalist

Nigella Lawson was born in Wandsworth, London, England, United Kingdom on January 6th, 1960 and is the Journalist. At the age of 64, Nigella Lawson biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Other Names / Nick Names
Nigella Lucy Lawson, Nigella
Date of Birth
January 6, 1960
Nationality
United Kingdom
Place of Birth
Wandsworth, London, England, United Kingdom
Age
64 years old
Zodiac Sign
Capricorn
Networth
$20 Million
Profession
Journalist, Reality Television Participant, Television Presenter, Writer
Social Media
Nigella Lawson Height, Weight, Eye Color and Hair Color

At 64 years old, Nigella Lawson has this physical status:

Height
170cm
Weight
73kg
Hair Color
Rich Chocolate
Eye Color
Dark Brown
Build
Voluptuous
Measurements
39-29-38" or 99-74-96.5 cm
Nigella Lawson Religion, Education, and Hobbies
Religion
Though her both parents are Jewish, Nigella claims herself as an atheist.
Hobbies
Not Available
Education
Ibstock Place School, Queen’s Gate School, Godolphin and Latymer School, Westminster School
Nigella Lawson Spouse(s), Children, Affair, Parents, and Family
Spouse(s)
John Diamond ​ ​(m. 1992; died 2001)​, Charles Saatchi ​ ​(m. 2003; div. 2013)​
Children
2
Dating / Affair
Geoffrey Robertson QC, John Diamond (1986, Charles Saatchi (2003-2013)
Parents
Nigel Lawson, Vanessa
Siblings
Dominic (Brother) (Former Editor of The Sunday Telegraph), Horatia (Sister), Thomasina (Sister) (Died in 1993 due to breast cancer), Tom (Half-Brother), Emily (Half-Sister)
Nigella Lawson Life

Nigella Lawson (born 6 January 1960) is an English food writer and host of a cooking show host.

She is the granddaughter of Nigel Lawson, a former Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Vanessa (née Salmon) Lawson, whose family owned the J. Lyons and Co. food and catering company. She attended Godolphin and Latymer School, London, and at Latymer School, London.

Lawson started working as a book reviewer and restaurant critic at the University of Oxford, where she later became the deputy literary editor of The Sunday Times.

She began working as a freelance writer, contributing to a variety of newspapers and magazines.

How to Eat, her first cookery book, was released in 1998 and sold 300,000 copies, becoming a best-seller.

She wrote How to Be a Domestic Goddess, her second book in 2000, which received the British Book Award for Author of the Year. Nigella Bites, her own cooking show series, was broadcast on Channel 4, as well as another best-selling cookbook.

Nigella Bites was a member of the Guild of Food Writers Award; her 2005 ITV daytime chat show Nigella was rejected after receiving poor feedback.

In 2006, she hosted Nigella Feasts in the United States, followed by a three-part BBC Two series, Nigella's Christmas Kitchen, which resulted in the commissioning of Nigella Express on BBC Two.

Living Kitchen, her own cookware collection, has a value of £7 million, and she has sold more than 3 million cookery books around the world.

Early life

Nigella Lawson was born in Wandsworth, London, as one of Nigel Lawson's daughters and Exchequer in Margaret Thatcher's cabinet's administration, and his first wife Vanessa Salmon (1936–1985), a socialite and the heiress to the J. Lyons and Co. fortune. Both her parents were from Jewish families. Her grandmother had her first name when she was introduced. Her family owned property in Kensington and Chelsea.

In 1980, Nigel and Vanessa Lawson divorced, when Nigella was 20 years old. Both remarried: her father, Therese Maclear, (to whom he was married before 2008), and her mother, A. J. Ayer, remained married until her mother's death. Nigella discovered some of the decisions and preconceptions that were generated about her frustrating father, who was at the time a leading political figure. In part, she attributed her unhappiness as a child to her mother's dysfunctional relationship.

At the age of 48, Lawson's mother died of liver cancer in Westminster, London. Lawson's full-blood siblings include Dominic, the former editor of The Sunday Telegraph, sister Horatia, and sister Thomasina, who died of breast cancer in her early thirties; Tom, the current headmaster of Eastbourne College, and Emily, her father's children by his second wife; Tom and Emily are her father's children. Lawson is a cousin of both George Monbiot and Fiona Shackleton of the Salmon family.

Lawson, who appears in the third series of the BBC family history documentary series Who Do You Think You Are?, sought to find some of her family's ancestry. She traced her ancestors to Ashkenazi Jews who hail from eastern Europe and Germany, leaving Lawson surprised not to have Sephardi roots as she had expected. She also discovered that Coenraad Sammes, her maternal great-great grandfather (later Coleman Joseph), had fled to England from Amsterdam in 1830 to avoid a prison term after a conviction for stealing. Hannah Gluckstein, a businessman with Barnett Salmon & Gluckstein, married her daughter Hannah. They had several children, including Isidore and Montague Gluckstein, who founded J. Lyons and Co. in 1887 and Helena, who married him. Alfred Salmon (1868-1988), the great-grandfather of Nigella Lawson, was one of Helena and Barnett Salmon's children.

Lawson spent a few years in High Kinnerton, Wales. She had to change schools nine times between the ages of 9 and 18, and consequently, she characterized her education as difficult. "I was just frustrating, riotous, and excellent at school, but rude, I suspect, and too high-strung," Lawson said. She attended many independent schools, including Ibstock Place School, Queen's Gate School, and Latymer School. She worked in numerous department stores in London and went on to graduate from the University of Oxford with a second-class degree in medieval and modern languages as a student at Lady Margaret Hall. For a time, she lived in Florence, Italy.

Personal life

When Lawson and Heriot were both writing for The Sunday Times in 1986, they met journalist John Diamond. They married in Venice in 1992, had a daughter, Cosima, and Bruno. Diamond was diagnosed with throat cancer in 1997 and died in March 2001 at the age of 47. "How proud I am of you and what you have become," one of Lawson's last messages to him. We've made us who we are," the great thing about us. "I took a fortnight off" after his death during Nigella Bites' filming; However, Lawson said she was not a great believer in breaks; she had a bout of depression after the funeral. Lawson retained all of the newspaper clippings in "Morbidobox" following Diamond's death.

In September 2003, Lawson married art collector Charles Saatchi.

During a protest outside a London seafood restaurant, photographers were taken around the neck by Saatchi. Lawson was seriously wounded by the incident, according to a witness. The photos later portrayed only a "playful tiff" and his efforts to stress a point. Saatchi was warned of assault after a police investigation, but Lawson and the family stayed home. Lawson said in sentencing that she was subjected to "intimate terrorism" and that if she cleared him in court, he would have killed her. Lawson continued to argue that Saatchi's casual cruelty and monitoring behavior made her unhappy and pushed her to occasional heroin use. Saatchi discouraged her from attending a woman friend's birthday party and punished her for attending a woman friend's birthday celebration. She was not defeated, but she was left emotionally scarred.

Saatchi's divorce from Lawson came early in July, saying that he had "clearly been a disappointment to Nigella over the last year or so" and that the couple had "become estranged and drifted apart." Lawson made no public statement in response; however, court papers revealed that it was actually Lawson who applied for divorce, citing continued unreasonable conduct. The pair received a decree nisi on July 31, 2013, seven weeks after the incident, putting an end to their ten-year marriage. They have signed a private financial settlement.

In R vs. Grillo and Grillo, two personal assistants of the former couple's widowed couples began on November 27, 2013 with the Italian-born sisters. The Grillos were accused of fraudulently using the credit cards of Saatchi's private company. The sisters maintained that Lawson had allowed them to use credit cards in exchange for their silence regarding her drug use early in December. The judge accepted questions regarding Lawson's drug use as part of the sisters' "poor character" defense. Lawson confessed to using cocaine and weed but denied she had been addicted, saying, "I found it made an intolerable situation to tolerate." The two sisters were acquitted on December 20th. Lawson will not be prosecuted because of the drug charges, according to Scotland Yard.

Earlier this year, Charles Saatchi was suspected of starting a smear campaign against Lawson in the British media by PR firm Richard Hillgrove, before the trial was over. Hillgrove's lawyers requested that she have Hillgrove remove remarks about her from his blog, according to Lawson's lawyers. Lawson argued in court that ending her marriage to Saatchi had created intolerable conditions for herself and her family, describing Saatchi as a "intellible but cruel man."

After the divorce, the woman in question was "completely cannabis, cocaine, or any drug free."

Lawson was not allowed to board a flight from London to Los Angeles on March 30, 2014. Foreigners who had confessed to drug use were deemed "inadmissible," according to the US Department of Homeland Security. However, US officials encouraged her to apply for a visa immediately after, and she was given a "waiver of inadmissibility" that allowed her to travel to the United States.

Lawson revealed in 2008 that she had a £15 million personal fortune. At the time, Charles Saatchi's husband was worth £100 million. "I am certain that my children should have no financial stability," she said of her two children. People are distraught not having to work to earn money."

Lawson is of Jewish origins. Both of Lawson's parents are Jewish and her upbringing was non-observant. Lawson is an atheist. "Most [women] have a mistook their sex in a non-defining, non-exclusive way, as in one of her newspaper columns."

Lawson is a promoter of the Lavender Trust, which helps young women with breast cancer. She first became involved with the cause in 2002 when she baked some lavender cupcakes to be auctioned at a fundraising event, which raised a substantial amount of money. The dish was later included in her book Forever Summer with Nigella.

Lawson was chastised by animal rights organizations in December 2008, and animal rights organizations argued that wearing the fur of an animal one had killed would be morally acceptable, and that she would be proud to wear the fur of a bear with whom she had hunted or "gone" into combat.

Lawson declined an OBE from Queen Elizabeth II in 2001, citing, "I'm not saving lives and I'm not doing anything else than what I absolutely love" (according to leaked Whitehall documents. Lawson is entitled to "The Honourable" as the niece of a life peer, and is therefore referred to as The Honourable Honourable. However, Nigella Lawson does not use this courtesy manner.

"You cook, you need structure," Lawson said, but "you should not aim for perfection, but rather, acknowledge your mistakes and figure out how to fix them." In the sense that "being able to sustain oneself is the skill of the survivor," she has described cooking as a "way of improving oneself."

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Nigella Lawson Career

Career

Lawson started working in publishing, but first under publisher Naim Attallah, he took over. She began writing for The Spectator at the age of 23, and her older brother would follow her in the same role shortly. Her first job at the journal was writing book reviews, after which she became a restaurant critic in 1985. She became The Sunday Times deputy literary editor in 1986, aged 26.

She attracted attention in 1989 when she confessed to voting for Labour in an election, not her father's Conservative Party, but later on, she chastised Margaret Thatcher in print. "My father would never expect me to agree with him on anything in particular," Lawson said about her father's political relationship.

She began a freelance writing career after The Sunday Times, realizing that she was on the wrong ladder. I didn't want to be an executive, but rather than think, I was paid to worry rather than think." She wrote for The Daily Telegraph, The Observer, and The Times Literary Supplement in the United Kingdom, and penned a food column for Vogue and a make-up column for The Times Literary Supplement, as well as working with Gourmet and Bon Appétit in the United States. Lawson finished his two-week stint at Talk Radio early after making a statement that her buying decision was made for her, apparently due to its incompatibility with the radio station's aspiration for "common touch." She appeared on television news show The Papers Sayer and co-host David Aaronovitch of Channel 4's literary-discussion series Booked in the mid-1990s and was co-host, co-host, with David Aaronovitch. She appeared on Channel 4's Real-Food Show in 1998.

Lawson had a strong sense of cooking from her childhood, having had a mother who loved cooking. She conceived the idea of writing a cookbook after observing a dinner party host in tears because of an unset crème caramel. How to Eat (1998), which offers culinary tips on how to prepare and save time, has sold 300,000 copies in the United Kingdom. The Sunday Telegraph dubbed it "the most useful culinary book to be published this decade."

How to be a Domestic Goddess, the site's successor, (2000), focuses mainly on baking. The book, according to the Times, it is "defined by its personal, companionable approach." She isn't issuing matronly orders like Delia; she is merely making "sisterly suggestions." Lawson condemned feminist criticism of her book, adding that "s"ome people did take the domestic goddess title seriously rather than ironically. It was about the pleasures of being a part rather than actually being one." In four months, the book earned Lawson the title of Author of the Year at the British Book Awards in 2001, putting an end to writers like J. K. Rowling. In the United States, How to Eat and Be a Domestic Goddess were two popular topics in 2000 and 2001. The Observer brought her on as a social affairs columnist as a result of the book's popularity.

On Channel 4, Lawson's own cooking show television series, Nigella Bites, ran from 1999 to 2001, followed by a Christmas special in 2001. Victor Lewis-Smith, a critic who is best known for his biting remarks, thanked Lawson for being "formidably charismatic." The first season of Nigella Bites attracted 1.9 million viewers and was named Best Television Broadcast of the Year at the Guild of Food Writers Awards and the Best Television Show at the World Food Media Awards in 2001. The show brought a companion best-selling recipe book, also called Nigella Bites, for which Waterstone's book stores reported UK sales of over 300,000. The book received the WH Smith Lifestyle Book of the Year award.

The Nigella Bites series, which was shot in her west London home, was later shown on American television stations E! The Style Network and the Style Network. "My followers have responded to the fact that I'm attempting to minimize, not add to, their burden in the United Kingdom," Lawson said of the US premiere. Overall, Lawson was well-reced in the United States. Many who did criticize her often suggested she was too flirtatious; a commentator from The New York Times wrote, "Lawson's sexy roundness mixed with her speed-demon technique makes cooking dinner with Nigella look like a harbinger of an orgy." In America, Nigella Bites' book became America's second best-selling cook book of Christmas 2002. On Channel 4, Forever Summer with Nigella began in 2002, the idea being, "that you cook to make you feel as if you're on holiday." Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, a fellow food writer, dismissed the scheme as "cynical and irresponsible," and referred to the book as Fuck Seasonality.

Lawson began to write a fortnightly cookery column for The New York Times in 2002, and introduced the Living Kitchen collection, a bestselling line of kitchenware that is available in a variety of stores. Her range's value has continued to increase, beginning at an estimated $2 million in 2003.

Lawson oversaw the menu and preparations for George W. Bush and his wife's lunch in Downing Street, London, on their state visit to the United Kingdom in November 2003. Laura Bush, the former First Lady of the United States, is said to be a lover of Lawson's recipes, and she once featured one of her soups as the starter for the 2002 presidential Christmas dinner. In 2004, Lawson's fifth book, Feast: Food That Honors Life, made $3 million. The book, according to the Evening Standard in London, "serves both as a practical guide and an engrossing read." ... Nobody else writes so openly about food's emotional value." In 2004, Lawson appeared on American television, hosting cookery slots on talk shows such as The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

Lawson began hosting Nigella, a daytime television chat show in the United Kingdom, on which celebrity guests appeared in a studio kitchen. With a disappointing 800,000 viewers, the first episode debuted. The program was met with largely critical feedback, and after losing 40% of its viewers in the first week, it was eventually cancelled. On her first appearance on Radio Times, she frightened her to come out of her dressing room. She said that having to pretend to be interested in the lives of the celebrities on her show was too much.

Nigella Feasts, her third food-based television series, debuted on the Food Network in the United States in autumn 2006 for a 13-week run. "The true appeal of Feasts is her unfussy, wry, practical approach to entertaining and high-quality comfort food," Time magazine published a favourable preview of the event. You'll be left wanting for a welcome at feasts.

Lawson was next signed to BBC Two to host Nigella's Christmas Kitchen, a three-part cookery show that aired weekly on December 6, 2006. For BBC Two, the first two episodes received the second highest ratings of the week, with the first episode receiving a 3.5 million viewers. On the week it had been broadcasting, the final episode went on to be the top show on BBC Two. In 2007, Nigella's Christmas Kitchen received its second World Food Media Award. In late 2006, when she had lauded goose fat as a key ingredient for Christmas, her presence as a food commentator was also demonstrated. Goose fat sales increased by more than doubled, as well as Asda's up by 65% from the previous week, according to Waitrose and Tesco. Waitrose also increased sales of 30% year on year after she recommended using prunes in a dish on Nigella's Christmas Kitchen.

Nigella Express, Nigella's Christmas Kitchen, resulted in the commissioning of a 13-part cookery series about fast food entitled Nigella Express. "The dishes aren't particularly healthy," she said. I wouldn't describe them as garbage, but they certainly wouldn't describe them as garbage. The show became another ratings hit and one of BBC Two's top-rated shows each week. The first episode attracted 2.85 million viewers, much more than the channel's slot average. The second episode's viewing figures increased to 3.3 million, and the series reached 3.4 million on October 22, 2007.

When Riesling wine sales increased by 30% in the United Kingdom after she had blended it into her Coq au Riesling dish on Nigella Express, she showed her public face once more. In December 2007, she appeared on BBC's The Graham Norton Show and revealed that she had once eaten 30 pickled eggs for a £1,000 bet, saying, "How stupid to mock me." They all had their money on the table in front of me, which was disappointing. "I had scrambled eggs for breakfast the next day."

When viewers complained that she had gained weight since the series's debut episode, Lawson was chastised. "The food matches her appearance," the Guardian wrote, "the styling matches her beauty – polished, polished, and sexy." Discovery Asia acquired the rights to Nigella Express. The series was nominated for Outstanding Lifestyle Program at the 35th Daytime Emmy Awards in the United States, as well as Outstanding Lifestyle Host.

In the United Kingdom in September 2007, and in Australia in 2008. According to Waterstone's, the book, which was branded with the television series, became another best-seller in the United Kingdom and outselling television chef Jamie Oliver by 100,000 copies. In the United Kingdom, over 490,000 copies had been sold by mid-December. In addition, the book was number one for a time on Amazon's best-selling books, and it was ninth in overall list of Christmas best-sellers in any segment. The recipes were "just right," according to Paul Levy of The Guardian. One of Nigella's brief introductions to each of them is that she doesn't only cook, but also as an eater, and she tells you whether they're messy, sticky, or fussy." Lawson was expected to have sold more than 3 million books in January 2008. Her Christmas book was published in October 2008 and a television show in December of the same year. In November 2009, an American edition of "Nigella Christmas" with a different cover photograph was published along with a accompanying book tour of several US towns and a special on the USA's Food Network.

"The Super Chef Battle" pitted White House Executive Chef Cristeta Comerford and Iron Chef Bobby Flay against Chef Emeril Lagasse and Iron Chef Mario Batali, and Lawson was named as one of three judges on a special edition of Iron Chef America named "The Super Chef Battle" in which pitted White House Executive Chef Cristeta Flay against Chef Emeril Lagasse and Iron Chef Mario Batali. This episode was first broadcast on January 3, 2010. A tie-in to the television series "Nigella Kitchen" is Lawson's cookbook Kitchen: Recipes from the Heart of the Home (2010). This was shown in the UK and on the Food Network in the United States.

Instant Italian Inspiration was launched in 2012. The BBC had a programme named Nigellissima, an 8-part TV series. Lawson obtained work experience in Italy during her gap year.

In 2013, she returned to the United States and appeared alongside Anthony Bourdain in The Taste, a reality cooking competition. On Channel 4, the UK version of the show premiered on January 7, 2014, the show's British version debuted on January 7. Lawson was issued a visa to visit the United States and stayed there for a continuation of the story. Lawson was hired by a chocolate company to appear in an advertisement in 2014, and the commercial was shot in New Zealand in May for a local confection manufacturer Whittaker's.

Both the UK and US versions of The Taste were completed, but BBC 2's Simply Nigella was launched in autumn 2015. The focus was on comfort food, which are simple and quick to prepare.

Lawson was spokesperson for the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015, awarding the twelve points to Sweden's Mns Zelmerlöw and his album "Heroes," which went on to win the competition.

Lawson will return to Australian television as a guest judge on the eighth series of MasterChef Australia as a guest judge alongside the returning judges, according to the publication. She returned to the program for the tenth series in 2018 and the eleventh series in 2019.

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Nigella Lawson Awards

Awards

  • 2000 – British Book Award – Author of the Year for How to be a Domestic Goddess
  • 2001 – WH Smith Book Award – How To Be A Domestic Goddess shortlisted for Lifestyle Book of the Year
  • 2001 – Guild of Food Writers – Television Broadcast of the Year for Nigella Bites
  • 2001 – World Food Media Award – Gold Ladle Best Television Food Show for Nigella Bites
  • 2002 – WH Smith Book Awards – Lifestyle Book of the Year for Nigella Bites
  • 2007 – World Food Media Award – Gold Ladle Best Food And/Or Drink Television Show for Nigella's Christmas Kitchen
  • 2016 – Fortnum & Mason TV Personality of the Year

A lunch fit for a king? That's half an avocado for Charles... and he definitely doesn't smash it like a millennial!

www.dailymail.co.uk, October 5, 2024
King Charles (pictured) has spent a lifetime skipping lunch, with a source saying he regarded it as a 'luxury' and that there was not enough time in his busy schedule to allow such an indulgence. Now, on the orders of his wife, aides and doctors, he has grudgingly started eating in the middle of the day to keep his strength up. But the King, who is recovering from cancer , insists on eating only the healthiest - and trendiest - snack there is. A source said: 'With some reluctance, he now has something to eat at lunchtime - a snack, really. He now eats half an avocado to sustain him through the day. It's important, particularly if you have got an illness.' Charles is a healthy eater, insisting on organic produce. Eggs are a particular favourite. He told the BBC three years ago how he abstains from meat and fish on two days of the week, and that he also avoids dairy on one of those days.

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS: What are some of the more unusual feminisations of male names?

www.dailymail.co.uk, October 1, 2024
The name Nigella sounded unusual until it became attached to domestic goddess Nigella Lawson, who injected it with a big dose of glamour. She was named after her father, the former Tory Chancellor Nigel Lawson. Nigel comes from the Celtic name Niall, meaning 'champion' or 'hero'. Speaking of chefs, we also have Benjamina Ebuehi, a cookbook author and former contestant on The Great British Bake Off. Benjamin is a Hebrew name meaning 'son of the right hand'. Charles seems particularly prone to feminisation. There is Charlotte, Charlene, Caroline, Carolina, Carolyn and Carla. An unusual one is Charlize, made famous by South African actress Charlize Theron .

'London's busiest road' gets WORSE: Locals' fury as cycle route is blocked with huge 'parklets' installed

www.dailymail.co.uk, September 30, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: A once-bustling London road decimated by unpopular traffic-calming measures has been dealt another blow - as so-called street furniture has been installed. Wandsworth Bridge Road in Fulham, South-West London, faces death from a thousand cuts after a series of hits from its local council. First Hammersmith and Fulham Council's 'Clean Air Neighbourhood' introduced measures to stop side streets being used by outsiders, which effectively funnelled all the cars onto the main strip.
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