Nigella Lawson and Charles Saatchi are set to divorce — just weeks after the multi-millionaire was pictured choking his celebrity chef and TV star wife.
Photographs of an apparently terrified Nigella Lawson being grabbed by the throat by the burly hands of her 70-year-old husband shocked the world when they were published by a London newspaper.
But in the August issue of The Weekly, London writer William Langley tells the real story of their complicated marriage, and reveals over the past year talk that all was not well in the life of Nigella Lawson has hummed over London’s fashionable lunch tables.
The odd couple, whose break-up has played out in the public eye over the weeks since multi-millionaire Saatchi was pictured choking his domestic goddess wife, are expected to appear in court today to finalise their ‘quickie divorce’ after 10 years of marriage.
The celebrity chef and TV star has been at the centre of a very public saga which saw her flee her marital home and was left reeling after Saatchi announced in a Sunday newspaper he would be seeking divorce following the photographed attack which he described as a “playful tiff”.
The couple are reported to have signed a pre-nup before they wed in 2003, and witnesses have come forward saying the violent incident that once publicised, led to the end of their marriage.
But as Langley writes in The Weekly, behind the abusive public “tiff” and the divorce that has played out in front of the public, is a passionate, complicated relationship between two people who crave love.
He describes each of the pair as “lost souls” with “almost nothing in common”, and reveals the complex relationship that has crumbled before the public eye.
Read more of this story in the August issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly.
