Nigella Lawson Biography: Age, Height, Parents, Siblings, Career, Wife, Children, Net Worth

British cook and food writer, Nigella Lucy Lawson was born on January 6, 1960, in Wandsworth, London, England.

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Name:	Nigella Lucy Lawson
Age:	63 years
Wife:	John Diamond (div.2001) Charles Saatchi (div.2013)
Date of Birth:	January 3, 1985
Nationality:	British
Net Worth:	$20 million

Nigella Lawson Nationality

Lawson was born in Wandsworth, London, England. She is British.

Nigella Lawson Age

Lawson was born on January 6, 1960, hence she is currently 63 years of age.

Nigella Lawson’s Height and Weight

Lawson stands at a height of 5ft 7 inches and weighs 69kg.

Nigella Lawson’s Family and Siblings

Lawson was born to Vanessa Salmon and Nigel Lawson. She has four siblings; Thomasina, Dominic, Horatia, Tom, and Emily Lawson.

Nigella Lawson’s Educational Background

Lawson studied at Ibstock Place School, Queen’s Gate School, and Godolphin and Latymer School. She furthered at the University of Oxford.

Nigella Lawson Career

Lawson began her career as a book reviewer and restaurant critic after graduating from Oxford, and in 1986 he was appointed deputy literary editor of The Sunday Times.

Then, as a freelance journalist, she wrote for several newspapers and journals. When her debut cookbook, How to Eat, was released in 1998, it went on to sell 300,000 copies and became a best-seller.

In 2000, she won the British Book Award for Author of the Year for her second book, How to Be a Domestic Goddess. Lawson began hosting her own food television series, Nigella Bites, on Channel 4 in 1999. She also released a second cookbook that quickly became popular.

Lawson was awarded a Guild of Food Writers Award for Nigella Bites. Her midday chat program Nigella on ITV in 2005 was canceled due to low viewership and unfavorable feedback.

In 2006, she hosted Nigella Feasts on the Food Network in the United States. She then hosted a three-part series on BBC Two in the United Kingdom called Nigella’s Christmas Kitchen, which resulted in the BBC Two commissioning of Nigella Express in 2007.

She has sold over 8 million recipe books globally to date, and her own cookware line, Living Kitchen, is valued at £7 million.

In a special Iron Chef America competition called “The Super Chef Battle,” which matched Iron Chef Bobby Flay and White House Executive Chef Cristeta Comerford against Iron Chef Mario Batali and chef Emeril Lagasse, Lawson was one of the three judges.

The first airing of this episode took place on January 3, 2010. The TV show “Nigella Kitchen” has a tie-in with Lawson’s booklet Kitchen: Recipes from the Heart of the Home (2010). Both the US Food Network and the UK’s Food Network aired this.

In 2013, she went to America to participate in the reality cookery series The Taste, costarring with Anthony Bourdain. The show’s UK premiere date was January 7, 2014, on Channel 4.

After finishing both the US and UK runs of The Taste, Lawson started hosting Simply Nigella on BBC 2 in the fall of 2015. Comfort food, or familiar recipes that are easy to prepare and serve quickly, was the main focus.

As the UK representative in the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest, Lawson awarded Sweden’s Måns Zelmerlöw and his song “Heroes” twelve points, and Sweden went on to win the competition.

On January 18, 2016, it was announced that Lawson would return to Australian television, serving as a guest judge on the eighth season of MasterChef Australia in addition to the returning judges. In 2018, she made a comeback to the show for its tenth season, and in 2019, for its eleventh.

Lawson’s comeback to Australian television as a judge for the twelfth season of 7 Network’s My Kitchen Rules was announced in 2022.

Before departing the show during the first round of fast food, Lawson co-hosted and judged the first six episodes of the season with veteran judge Manu Feildel.

Lawson, along with other returning judges Manu Feildel and Colin Fassnidge, was set to return to the show for its thirteenth season as a judge in Kitchen HQ in 2023.

Nigella Lawson Husband

Lawson has been married twice. She was married to John Diamond from 1992 to 2001. She then married Charles Saatchi from 2003 to 2013.

Nigella Lawson Children

Lawson has two children; Bruno Paul Diamond and Cosima Thomasina Diamond.

Nigella Lawson Religion

Lawson was raised a Jewish. However, her current religious affiliation is not known to us at the moment.

Nigella Lawson’s Net Worth

Lawson has a net worth estimated to be about $20 million as of 2023. She is believed to have amassed her impressive net worth from her profession as a food writer and television cook, and perhaps other ventures.

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