Nigella Lawson

The Honourable Nigella Lucy Lawson (born January 6, 1960) is a British journalist, cookery writer and television presenter. She is the daughter of politician Nigel Lawson and sister of Dominic Lawson, the former editor of the Sunday Telegraph. Her mother was society beauty Vanessa Salmon, heir to the Lyons Corner House empire who died of liver cancer in 1985. Her sister Thomasina died of breast cancer in 1993 whilst in her early thirties.

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The Honourable - January 6 - 1960 - British - Cookery writer - Nigel Lawson - Dominic Lawson - Sunday Telegraph - Liver cancer - 1985 - Breast cancer - 1993

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She attended the Godolphin and Latymer School before graduating from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She then wrote a restaurant column for the Spectator before becoming deputy literary editor of the Sunday Times in 1986. She has had two television cooking series broadcast in the UK on Channel 4: Nigella Bites in 2001 and Forever Summer with Nigella in 2002, both of which have accompanying recipe books.

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Godolphin and Latymer School - Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford - Spectator - Sunday Times - 1986 - Channel 4 - 2001 - 2002

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Her style of presentation is sometimes gently mocked by comedians and commentators (particular a regularly occurring impersonation of her in the BBC television comedy series Dead Ringers) who perceive that she plays overtly upon her undoubted attractiveness and sexuality as a device to engage viewers of her cookery programmes, despite Lawson's repeated denials that she purposely does so.

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BBC - Dead Ringers

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She was married to journalist John Diamond, who died of throat cancer in 2001, with whom she had two children, Cosima and Bruno. They met in 1986 when they were both writing for The Sunday Times. She married Charles Saatchi (17 years her senior) in September of 2003.

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John Diamond - Throat cancer - 2001 - 1986 - The Sunday Times - Charles Saatchi - September

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She currently hosts a daytime TV programme on ITV1 titled "Nigella!" in which celebrity guests join Nigella in the kitchen.

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See also: List of British Jews

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