"Nigella Lawson was so off her head on cocaine that she allowed her assistants to spend £300,000 on crap"

From The Daily Mail:

Charles Saatchi accused his former wife Nigella Lawson of being 'so off your heads on drugs' that she allowed their personal assistants to spend whatever they liked, a court heard.

Italian sisters Francesca and Elisabetta Grillo are accused of using company credit cards to spend £300,000 on over-hyped 'works of art' including an unmade bed and papier-maché sculptures of household objects...

"You couldn't give this crap away," fumed the multi-millionaire former advertising executive. "And they've filled our whole attic with this bullshit."

I'd love to have scripted that episode of her cookery show:

Nigella, huskily to camera: "If you've just come back from holiday in Amsterdam or Morrocco with a 'little something extra' in your luggage and you've invited friends round to celebrate, remember that they'll get peckish very quickly...

[Cutaway shot: Nigella holding a small brown-ish lump stuck on the end of a safety pin, just above a candle flame]

"It can be awkward deciding who pops out to the petrol station for crisps or chocolate cookies just when everybody's getting mellow, so why not rustle up your own beforehand?"

Nigella is the new chocolate is the new drinking ...

From The Evening Standard:

Celebrity chefs including Nigella Lawson and Rick Stein are encouraging unhealthy eating, according to doctors and nutritionists. Their glossy cookbooks contain recipes loaded with "bad" saturated fats linked to heart disease, strokes and obesity.

A report unveiled today by The Fat Panel - an independent group of experts - shows that just one serving of some of their dishes contains more than the recommended daily limit of the fats.

Who's on The Fat Panel anyway? Experts like Chris Moyles, Beth Ditto, Nick Soames and Fern Britton perhaps? Nope. They do a nifty press release though; take a look at this one headed The Fat Panel Expands, which kicks off with "The Fat Panel is gaining even more weight..." (I shit ye not).