Nigella Lawson

Nigella Lawson: Biography in Details

Who is Nigella Lawson?

Nigella Lawson is an English journalist, broadcaster, food enthusiast, television personality, and food author. She is famous for hosting the cooking shows, Nigella Bites, The Taste, and Nigella Kitchen. 

She has also the best-selling author of her eight food books which have sold over 6 million copies worldwide.

Nigella Lawson: Early Life, Childhood, and Education

Nigella was born on 6 January 1960 in Wandsworth, London, England. Her father Nigel Lawson was a conservative British politician and journalist.

Similarly, her mother Vanessa Salmon was an heiress to the J Lyons & Co catering business. Their ethnicity is Ashkenazi Jewish.

Her parents divorced in 1980. She spent her early life in Kensington, Welsh village, and Chelsea.

Nigella Lawson has a brother named Dominic Lawson who was an editor of The Sunday Telegraph and a sister Horatia Lawson who died of breast cancer in 1993.

Her education and childhood were very difficult phases in her life. From the age of 9-18, she has changed schools nine times.

Nigella Lawson also pursued her education at independent schools like Ibstock Place School, Queen’s Gate School and Godolphin, and Latymer School.

She studied at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University for her graduate degree in medieval and modern languages.

 Nigella Lawson: Career, Salary, and Net Worth

Nigella Lawson started to pursue publishing in the mid-1980s. She started reviewing books and restaurants before landing the role of deputy literary editor of “The Sunday Times”.

In 1985, Nigella Lawson was given the title of The Spectator magazine’s restaurant critic. Then she penned for The New York Times’s food column section and meanwhile she was offered a job in British Vogue as an editor.

She started acting as an independent columnist before discharging her introduction cookbook, “How to Eat”. It rapidly turned into a smash hit with more than 300,000 duplicates sold.

She was an Author of the Year respects at the British Book Awards. A year prior, Lawson handled her cooking appearance, “Nigella Bites” which was a big hit in her career, and distributed an extra cookbook under a similar name.

Her 2005 talk appearance, “Nigella”, was unsuccessful, however, she would be wise to fortunes facilitating “Nigella Feasts” on the Food Network and “Nigella Express” on BBC Two.

Nigella Lawson built up her own particular line of cookware. In 2013, Lawson’s own partners were put on trial for supposedly falsely utilizing her then spouse’s charge cards.

The associates guaranteed they were allowed to utilize the cards the length they stayed close-lipped regarding Lawson’s medication utilization.

Nigella Lawson later copped to utilizing pot and cocaine, and the partners were absolved of the charges. Her net worth is estimated to be around £20 million.

Real Estate

Nigella Lawson presently resides in central London in a £5 million pink-painted mews house. In 2013, she moved to the London house after splitting from her second husband, Charles Saatchi.

Earlier, she lived in a £12 million mansion in Chelsea.

Is Nigella Lawson involved in any rumors and controversies?

Lawson played down rumors as she dropped dress sizes. She came down to size 12 from size 16.

Controversies were that she intakes cocaine, cannabis, and prescription drugs.

This was accused by her ex-husband, he also accused her of poisoning her daughter with drugs. Also, she had this habit for a very long time and was in class B.

 Body Measurements: Height, Weight

Nigella Lawson is a very charming and pretty lady. She has maintained her perfect hourglass body which measures 39-29-38 inches and her bra size is 32G.

She has a perfect height of 5 feet 7 inches and weighs 73 kg. Nigella has Rich chocolate hair color and dark brown eye color. Her dress size is 8(US) and her shoe size is 8(US.)

Is Nigella Lawson active on social media?

Nigella Lawson is active on social media and has Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram accounts.

She has around 2 million followers on her Facebook account, over 2.7 million followers on her Twitter account, and more than 2.5 million followers on her Instagram account.

This host also has a Youtube channel.

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