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Nigella Lucy Lawson (born 6 January , 1960 ) is a British journalist, Cookery Writer and television presenter. Lawson grew up in a Jewish family; she is the daughter of politician Nigel Lawson and sister of Dominic Lawson , the former editor of the '' Sunday Telegraph ''. Her mother was socialite Vanessa Salmon, heir to the Lyons Corner House empire, she died of Liver Cancer in 1985. Her sister, Thomasina, died of Breast Cancer in 1993 while in her early thirties. Lawson attended Godolphin And Latymer School and Westminster School before graduating from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford with a degree in Modern and Medieval Languages. She then wrote a restaurant column for the '' Spectator '' before becoming deputy literary editor of the '' Sunday Times '' in 1986. She has had two television cooking series broadcast in the UK on titled ''Nigella!'' in which celebrity guests joined her in the kitchen. The show was not well received by critics and ended after a short run. Besides her own cookbooks, Nigella is featured in ''Off Duty, The World's Greatest Chefs Cook at Home'' (2005). Her style of presentation is sometimes gently mocked by comedians and commentators (particular a regularly occurring impersonation of her in the BBC television comedy series '' Dead Ringers '') who perceive that she plays overtly upon her attractiveness and sexuality as a device to engage viewers of her cookery programmes, despite Lawson's repeated denials that she does so. She was married to journalist John Diamond , with whom she had two children, Cosima and Bruno. Diamond died of Throat Cancer in 2001. They had met in 1986 when they were both writing for '' The Sunday Times ''. She married Charles Saatchi (17 years her senior) in September 2003 . Her favourite musical group is Sheffield ensemble '' Hotsnack ''. According to UKTV Food Lawson is worth in excess of £1.7 million. Her first biography, ''Nigella Lawson'', by Gilly Smith, was published by Andre Deutsch in September 2005. The paperback, subtitled, "A Very British Dish" will be published in the summer of 2006. BIBLIOGRAPHY
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