Domestic goddess Nigella Lawson draws attention to her derriere on lunch date with husband
By RICHARD KAY
Last updated at 9:19 AM on 20th December 2011
Thanks to her lustrous locks and generous cleavage, another part of the Nigella Lawson anatomy has gone largely unnoticed over the years.
But the 51-year-old Domestic Goddess is now happy to draw attention to her derriere.
On a lunch date with her husband Charles Saatchi, she stepped out in a short jacket and skintight jeans to illustrate the confidence she has gained following recent weight loss.
Super-slim Nigella Lawson looked fabulous in ultra-tight jeans on a lunch date with her husband
Seasoned Nigella-watchers will be aware this is a significant departure from the flowing garments she usually wears.
Miss Lawson is said to have dropped from a size 18 to a 12 amid claims she followed the Clean And Lean plan.
The diet was devised by trainer James Duigan, who has also advises Elle Macpherson and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley.
Devotees eat fish, lean poultry and vegetables, accompanied by supplements and diet shakes.
Earlier this month Nigella denied dieting and said her weight went up and down depending on her work schedule.
She has long been a poster girl for the fuller figure and is often seen in her TV show consuming a smorgasbord of dishes laden with butter and cream.
Tory baron's mistress reveals all
Lord Hanson's squeeze: French actress Francoise Pascal - pictured in 1972 - has admitted to the affair in her memoir
With charm, good looks and a swashbuckling entrepreneurial empire worth £6 billion, Lord Hanson seemed to have it all.
But the late industrialist, one of the largest Tory party donors during the Margaret Thatcher years and whose marriage to American divorcee Geraldine Kaelin lasted 45 years, enjoyed a clandestine affair with Seventies pin-up Francoise Pascal.
Now almost 40 years after their liaison, the Mind Your Language actress, whose other lovers include actors Warren Beatty and Sir Michael Caine, speaks out about their trysts for the first time in her forthcoming memoirs, As I Am.
Lord (James) Hanson, who died in 2004 aged 82, met Mauritius-born Francoise when she was 22 at a dinner party she attended as David Niven Junior’s date.
Hanson, who was once engaged to Audrey Hepburn, slipped her his contact details, but it was not until their second encounter at Francoise’s flat that the pair consummated their bond.
‘I cooked him a warm chicken salad I found in a recipe book. We ate, drank and that afternoon ended up in bed! We lay there, I smoking a cigarette and him just being chatty,’ writes Francoise.
‘James was always very cautious how he ate. I guess he needed to have some room for his dinner with Lady Hanson.’
Speaking from her home in London’s East End, Francoise, 62, who has one son, Nicholas, with actor Richard Johnson tells me: ‘James was so special he meant more to me than any of the others. It took me three years to write this book and I pondered a lot about whether to include him or not.
‘I loved making love to him and why not? He was charismatic, poised and had savoir-faire. He was everything I loved in a man but not someone I could ever be with as he was married. He was the forbidden fruit and you know what happens with forbidden fruit? You want more.
‘I was the little devil in his life but I chose never to make waves because for him the consequences would have been disastrous. I was flattered that such a powerful man wanted to have an affair with me.’
After the affair ended, Francoise adds: ‘We kept in touch for a while but he had to be careful because of his political career, his business and his wife.’
A spokesman for Lord Hanson’s son, Robert, said, ‘Robert doesn’t comment on these sorts of stories.’
Footballer Michael Owen will be rooting for Kauto Star to upset the formbooks and win a record-breaking fifth William Hill-sponsored King George VI Chase at Kempton Park on Boxing Day.
But while his head says Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Long Run will scoop the prize, the Manchester United and former England striker says pointedly: ‘The media write off people and horses too early — I should know.’
Dame Maggie Smith is providing the biggest cliffhanger for Downton Abbey. The Oscar-winning actress, whose withering looks and acid put-downs as Violet, Dowager Countess Of Grantham, are the highlight of the hit ITV costume drama, has yet to sign on the dotted line for the eagerly awaited third series.
The formidable Dame Maggie — 77 next week — is treated differently from the rest of the cast, who are all optioned to continue their roles in 2012.
Keeping us hanging: The formidable Dame Maggie ¿ 77 next week ¿ has not yet signed up to a third series of Downton Abbey
Not only is she the only one to have her own trailer and access to private quarters on location at Highclere Castle near Newbury, but she also has her own wigmaker. ‘As she does not like to be in the make-up chair for long, her wig is prepared beforehand so it can be put on like a hat,’ reveals an insider.
Series producer Liz Trubridge says: ‘Maggie Smith is a big star and treated accordingly. Her character is a vital part of Downton Abbey and we have our fingers and everything else crossed that she will continue in the role.’
A spokesman for Dame Maggie’s agent sniffs: ‘We don’t know anything. It is early days yet.’
Wounded Fox still smarting
Still smarting: Emilia Fox doesn't plan on returning to the theatre any time soon after dreadful reviews following her last performance
Don’t expect Silent Witness star Emilia Fox to walk the boards any time soon, as she admits that she’s still smarting from bad reviews from her last stage appearance eight years ago.
Emilia, 37, who returns as pathologist Nikki Alexander in her eighth series of the BBC drama next month, recalls how the critics’ savaging of the 2003 production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, in which she played Madame de Tourvel, has ‘put me off the theatre’.
She adds: ‘I guess everyone has to have one of those experiences in their careers.’
The mother-of-one, who met her former husband Jared Harris while working on Liaisons, says: Jared and I turned all the reviews into fish-and-chip paper at our wedding and, in retrospect, the sheer ferocity of them was quite funny. But at the time you think: “Oh my God!” That’s why you should never read your reviews.
‘It didn’t put me off acting but it did put me off the theatre, and I haven’t done any since.’
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Passengers on BA’s flight to Barbados yesterday were unexpected guests at a party as showbusiness agent Jonathan Shalit staged a surprise celebration of wife Katrina’s 51st birthday at 35,000ft.
An hour out of Heathrow, the captain tannoyed a birthday greeting to Katrina as stewardesses emerged carrying champagne for all in first class.
As passengers broke into a Happy Birthday chorus, the pilot left his cockpit carrying a candleless cake.
Says Shalit, who represents the X Factor’s Tulisa: ‘It’s the only eight-mile-high club I’ll be joining.’
PS No problem with falling property prices when it comes to the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, the favoured resting-place — one suite costs £25,000 a night — of Saudi princes, Hollywood stars and heads of state.
Barely nine months after Morgan Stanley was forced to sell to Lebanese billionaire Toufic Aboukhater for £400 million, it is changing hands again. This time, Qatari investor Ghanim Bin Saad Al Saad is on the point of paying more than £500 m for the iconic establishment and its famous domes, said to be modelled on the charms of La Belle Otero, a dancer at the Folies Bergere and reputed lover of King Edward VII
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