Who is Nigella Lawson

Nigella was born on 6th January 1960 and is the daughter of Nigel Lawson a prominent politician in Margaret Thatcher's government, and the late Vanessa Salmon a socialite and heiress to the Lyons Corner House empire.

Nigella herself confesses that she was a difficult child. She was moved to different schools 5 times. "I was just difficult, disruptive, good at school work, but rude, I suspect, and too highly-strung," Lawson commented.

But her education didn't seem to suffer as Nigella graduated from Oxford University with a degree in Medieval and Modern Languages.

Nigella's early career started with her writing book reviews. She then went on to write a restaurant column for The Spectator in 1985. She became deputy literary editor of The Sunday Times a year later.

Her TV career began in the 1990s with guest spots on other shows. Nigella Bites was first broadcast in 2000

She met fellow journalist and broadcaster John Diamond in 1986 and they married in 1992. They had 2 children, Cosima and Bruno. John was diagnosed with throat cancer in 1997 and died in 2001.

Nigella married Charles Saatchi in 2003.