Nigella Lawson Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family
The Honourable Nigella Lucy Lawson (born 6 January 1960) is an English journalist, broadcaster, television personality, gourmet, and food writer. She is the daughter of Nigel Lawson, the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Vanessa (née Salmon) Lawson, whose family owned the J. Lyons and Co. food and catering business. After graduating from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University, Lawson started work as a book reviewer and restaurant critic, later becoming the deputy literary editor of The Sunday Times in 1986. She then embarked upon a career as a freelance journalist, writing for a number of newspapers and magazines. In 1998, she brought out her first cook book, How to Eat, which sold 300,000 copies and became a best-seller. She wrote her second book in 2000, How to be a Domestic Goddess, which won her the British Book Award for Author of the Year.In 1999, she hosted her own cooking show series, Nigella Bites, on Channel 4, accompanied by another best-selling cook book. Nigella Bites won Lawson a Guild of Food Writers Award; her 2005 ITV daytime chat show Nigella was met with a negative critical reaction and was cancelled after attracting low ratings. She hosted the Food Network's Nigella Feasts in the United States in 2006 followed by a three-part BBC Two series, Nigella's Christmas Kitchen, in the UK, which led to the commissioning of Nigella Express on BBC Two in 2007. Her own cookware range, Living Kitchen, has a value of £7 million, and she has sold more than 3 million cook books worldwide to date.
Full Name
Nigella Lawson
Net Worth
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Date Of Birth
January 6, 1960
Place Of Birth
Wandsworth, London, England, UK
Height
1.7 m
Occupation
Food writer, journalist and broadcaster
Profession
Journalist, TV Personality, Presenter, Author, Food critic, Chef, Food writer
Residence
London, England
Education
Westminster School, University of Oxford, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, Godolphin and Latymer School, Ibstock Place School
Religion
Jewish
Nationality
British
Spouse
Charles Saatchi, John Diamond
Children
Cosima Thomasina Diamond, Bruno Paul Diamond
Parents
Nigel Lawson, Vanessa Salmon
Siblings
Dominic Lawson, Thomasina Lawson, Horatia Lawson, Emily Lawson, Tom Lawson
Nicknames
Nigella Lucy Lawson, Lawson, Nigella Lucy
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Nominations
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lifestyle/Culinary Host, James Beard Award for Best National Television Cooking Show, James Beard Award for Entertaining and Special Occasions
I think a lot of professional chefs have a slightly holy view of women who cook. I don't think you can tell the gender of a person through his or her cooking - except at home, because male home cooks tend to be more show-offy.
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People of ten say to me, You don't wear your hair up. You haven't got a net. I cook for my children. I grew up eating my mother's hair, and I don't see why they can't grow up eating mine.
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If you're on TV, you can't be surprised if someone talks about what you look like. I don't want to be the poster girl for anything in particular, but I don't equate thinness with healthiness, so I don't feel I have to defend having flesh on me. It's really, as the French say, everything in moderation - including moderation.
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I eat healthily. It's just that I eat enough for five healthy people.
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A [Christmas] stocking without a pomegranate is not worth talking about.
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Diets are like boyfriends - it never works to go back to them.
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I am not a chef. I am not even a trained or professional cook. My qualification is as an eater.
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Fact
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She is from a Jewish family (from Latvia, Germany, the Netherlands, and Austria). Her family's original surname was "Leibson".
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Presenting her own daytime show, for ITV1, called Nigella (2005). Airs at 1:30pm BST weekdays. [July 2005]
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Her 2nd husband of 9 years Charles Saatchi filed for divorce from her following the scandal over the publication of pictures showing him clutching her by the throat at a London restaurant on June 9. [July 2013]
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(March 2, 2001) Her husband of 9 years & father of her 2 children, 7-year-old daughter Cosima & 4-year-old son Bruno, John Diamond died from throat cancer at the age of 47.
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Gave birth to her 2nd child at age 36, a son Bruno Paul Diamond (aka Bruno Diamond) in June 1996. Child's father is her now late 1st husband, John Diamond.
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Gave birth to her 1st child at age 33, a daughter Cosima Thomasina Diamond (aka Cosima Diamond) in December 1993. Child's father is her now late 1st husband, John Diamond.
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Friend of Art Smith.
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She had her ears pierced when she was 18, but then stopped wearing earrings and let the holes in her ears close up again when she was in her twenties. She finally had them re-pierced in 2007 when her daughter Cosima had hers pierced. In interviews, she's said that her favorite earrings are big hoops, because of the way wearing them makes her feel.
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Her mother's family started the Lyons chain of cafés and manufacturers of tea and coffee.
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Sister-in-law of Lord Saatchi, Josephine Hart, Christopher Monckton and Rosa Monckton.
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Her father is former British Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson and her socialite mother Vanessa Salmon.
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It was revealed in December 2003 that she declined the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) honor for "her services to journalism and to cookery" in 2001.
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Voted the 90th worst Briton in Channel Four's poll of the 100 Worst Britons. [May 2003]
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Her older brother, Dominic Lawson, is married to Rosa Monckton, only daughter of the Viscount and Viscountess Monckton of Brenchley, and a good friend of the late Princess Diana.
