Nigella Lawson Biography
Nigella Lawson is an eminent English food writer and television cook. After graduating from the University of Oxford, where she was a member of Lady Margaret Hall, Lawson started to work as a book reviewer and restaurant critic.
Later, She became the deputy literary editor of The Sunday Times in 1986. Lawson then embarked upon a career as a freelance journalist, writing for a number of newspapers and magazines.
Nigella 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.
Nigella Lawson Age
Nigella Lawson was born in Wandsworth, London, United Kingdom on January 6, 1960. She is 62 years old.
Nigella Lawson Height
Lawson is a woman of average stature and stands at a moderate height of 5 ft 5 inches (Approx. 1.65 m).
Nigella Lawson Education
She was educated at several independent schools, among them Queen’s Gate School, Ibstock Place School, and Godolphin and Latymer School.
Nigellserved for many 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. She lived in Florence, Italy, for a time.
Nigella Lawson Family
Nigella was born to her parents Nigel Lawson and Vanessa Salmonin Wandsworth, London. Her father was a future Conservative MP and Chancellor of the Exchequer in Margaret Thatcher’s government. Her mother was a socialite and the heiress to the J. Lyons and Co. fortune. Both her parents were from Jewish families and divorced in 1980 when Nigella was 20.
Her full-blood siblings are her brother, Dominic, former editor of The Sunday Telegraph, sister Horatia, and sister Thomasina, who died of breast cancer, in her early thirties, in 1993. Nigella has a half-brother, Tom, who is currently headmaster at Eastbourne College, and a half-sister, Emily. Tom and Emily are her father’s children by his second wife. She is a cousin to both George Monbiot and Fiona Shackleton through the Salmon family.
Nigella Lawson Husband
She was first married to a journalist called John Diamond in Venice in 1992. The couple had a daughter called Cosima, and a handsome son called Bruno. Diamond in 1997 was diagnosed with throat cancer and died in March 2001, aged 47.
Later, Nigella married an art collector called Charles Saatchi in September 2003. On July 31, 2013, the duo were granted a decree nisi, ending their ten-year marriage. They reached a private financial settlement.
Nigella Lawson Net Worth
Lawson has an estimated net worth of $20 million.
Nigella Lawson Career
After graduating from the University of Oxford, where she was a member of Lady Margaret Hall, Lawson started to work as a book reviewer and restaurant critic.
Later, She became the deputy literary editor of The Sunday Times in 1986. Lawson then embarked upon a career as a freelance journalist, writing for a number of newspapers and magazines.
Nigella 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.
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