Nigella Lawson

The Honourable Nigella Lawson
Lawson in 2017
Born	Nigella Lucy Lawson (1960-01-06) 6 January 1960 (age 64) Wandsworth, London, England
Education	Godolphin and Latymer School
Alma mater	Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
Occupations	Food writer television cook restaurant critic journalist author television presenter
Years active	1983–present
Employers	BBC (current) Channel 4, ITV (former) Good Food Channel Food Network (UK version; frequent repeats of Channel 4 and BBC shows)
Known for	TV presenting, cookery, writing
Style	Desserts, pastry, Middle Eastern, English, Mediterranean
Spouses	John Diamond ​ ​ (m. 1992; died 2001)​ Charles Saatchi ​ ​ (m. 2003; div. 2013)​
Children	2
Parents	Nigel Lawson (father) Vanessa Salmon (mother)
Relatives	Dominic Lawson (brother)
Nigella Lawson's voice from the BBC programme Woman's Hour, 12 December 2012.[1]
Website	Official website

Nigella Lucy Lawson (born 6 January 1960)^[2] is an English food writer and television cook.

After graduating from Oxford, Lawson worked as a book reviewer and restaurant critic, later becoming the deputy literary editor of The Sunday Times in 1986. She then wrote for a number of newspapers and magazines as a freelance journalist. In 1998, her first cookery book, How to Eat, was published and sold 300,000 copies, becoming a best-seller. Her second book, How to Be a Domestic Goddess, was published in 2000, winning the British Book Award for Author of the Year.

In 1999, Lawson hosted her own cooking show series, Nigella Bites, on Channel 4, accompanied by another best-selling cookbook. Nigella Bites won Lawson a Guild of Food Writers Award. Her 2005 ITV daytime chat show Nigella 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 8 million cookery books worldwide to date.^[3]