TV chef's wedding band gone
Conversation ... bullied celeb TV chef Nigella Lawson at café yesterday
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TROUBLED Nigella Lawson sits alone at a café table — ten days after another diner visit sparked a fateful row with her tycoon hubby.
The Domestic Goddess, 53, looked pale and drawn as she spoke on her mobile yesterday — notably minus her wedding ring — close to the Mayfair bolthole where she has been living apart from Charles Saatchi.
It was the first time the sexy chef had been seen in public since fleeing the couple’s home last Sunday.
Banned ... no sign of ring as TV chef Nigella Lawson takes call yesterday
Andrew Styczynski
And it came 48 hours after her millionaire art collector husband accepted a caution for grabbing her throat outside a posh seafood restaurant.
Nigella left her £10,000-a-week rented apartment in central London shortly after 10am yesterday — WITHOUT her gold wedding band.
Unaccompanied and wearing little make-up, she appeared to have lost weight since she was last pictured leaving the family home, where Saatchi, 70, continues to live.
She paced just 20 yards to a restaurant for a late breakfast. But within seconds she walked out again to take a call on her phone, then trawled distractedly up and down the street, deep in conversation.
At one point Nigella, in knee-length boots, trousers and a blouse, grew so engrossed that she sat at the café table.
All alone ... TV chef Nigella Lawson in street yesterday
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An onlooker said: “She clearly has a lot of things on her mind. You could tell she had had a few stressful days.
“She looked light years away from the gorgeous, voluptuous woman you see on the TV. Things have clearly taken their toll.”
It is understood Nigella, wed ten years, has been at the flat since Monday. Saatchi has not been seen there.
In a 2002 interview the chef said she only removed her wedding ring from previous husband John Diamond four months after his death.
Her decision to ditch Saatchi’s band may surprise the tycoon, who has insisted she only quit their £14million Chelsea home “till the dust had settled” after what he called their “playful tiff”.
Saatchi, called “an exploder” by his wife in 2007, said they were having a “debate” about their children when he repeatedly held her throat. He insisted there was no grip.
But Nigella got into a taxi in tears after the episode. And her husband, co-founder of the Saatchi and Saatchi ad agency, was given a formal caution on Monday.
Band ... wedding ring visible on TV chef Nigella Lawson's finger during row with Saatchi
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He was questioned under caution by officers from Westminster’s Community Safety Unit over photos that emerged from the incident.
By accepting the caution for assault, he acknowledged the offence took place.
Nigella, whose father is ex-Tory Chancellor Lord Lawson, has not commented.
A domestic violence survivor has described how seeing the photos of Saatchi grasping Nigella’s neck made her blood “run cold”.
Loretta Butterworth, 22, was left unrecognisable after ex Toby Hayden, 27, punched and stamped on her, having previously grabbed her throat.
The ex-road worker admitted assault and was given an 18-month community order.
Loretta, of Chippenham, Wilts, said: “I saw his violent side, but stuck with him.
“I know now that the first time he raised his hand to me I should have got out.
“I just hope Nigella reads this and knows to walk away.”
His jokes on abuse & wonder
Biography ... art tycoon Charles Saatchi yesterday
Dan Charity / The Sun
By GRANT ROLLINGS
CHARLES Saatchi makes light of wife-beating in his book Be The Worst You Can Be.
The art collector also revels in being hateful in the book, below left, which has a subtitle of Life’s Too Long For Patience & Virtue.
It was published last year and is a series of tongue-in-cheek answers to “questions from journalists and readers” — though it seems most of the questions were made up.
In one, he is asked: “Did you know that the phrase ‘rule of thumb’ came from a law once used in England which forbade you from beating your wife with anything wider than your thumb?”
Saatchi answers: “No I didn’t. Why are you telling me this? Is it simply because I live in England, or have you heard that I am a ferocious wife-beater?”
Poster ... promoting Charles Saatchi's book
Saatchi’s main philosophy in the book is it’s a “mistake” to be nice or caring. He writes: “Unlock yourself from the neurotic need to please. It erodes the soul.”
Saatchi also takes swipes at females. He says: “It’s ok for little girls to whine. They are practising to be women.”
And talking about his two divorces, he writes: “Wives make excellent housekeepers.
“They always manage to keep the house. Boom boom!”
Saatchi — who has wed three times — is not kind about marriage. He says: “It’s a flawed ideology, with a miserable track record, and only gives comfort to the insecure and needy, like me.”
So far Saatchi has refused to say sorry publicly for assaulting telly cook Nigella.
He writes in the book: “There is absolutely no shame in an apology made with your fingers crossed behind your back. It’s actually quite elevating.”
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