Even though I don’t have the slightest interest in cookery shows, Nigella Lawson has always seemed like quite a deadly bird. With her unapologetic love of rich, salty and sweet food and her flirty winks to camera, she came off as fun and cheeky and someone who didn’t take herself too seriously.
Plus, back in January, she banned ABC from airbrushing out her belly in the publicity shots for The Taste, an American food show where she’s one of the judges. Considering the lengths that over-eager Photoshoppers can go to, it’s refreshing to say the least. As she put it on her blog:
That tum is the truth and is come by honestly, as my granny would have said.
Look at her there, with a STOMACH, like she's some kind of human woman.However, between those shocking photographs of Charles Saatchi holding her by the throat that surfaced during the Summer, their subsequent divorce and the ongoing Grillo sisters trial, overall 2013 has a been a tough year for Nigella.
But it seems that if anyone can take on such an ordeal with grace, dignity and a ferociously defiant courtface (as it was quickly dubbed on Twitter), it’s her.
After the tabloids rampaged all over Charles Saatchi’s claims that she had a drug problem and made it sound as though she’d been high as a kite for the last ten years, she majestically swept into the courtroom to give evidence in the fraud trial of her former assistants and completely restored her reputation with a seven hour testimony that showed her to be composed, honest and bitingly funny.
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The entire world was Team Nigella, despite her ex-husband’s skeezy attempts to ruin and shame her. She admitted to taking drugs a handful of times as a way of coping with her abusive husband’s behaviour and really, it was a bit rich for a big shot ad man to throw around accusations of drug use in the first place.
Her testimony also provided us with a heap of wonderful quotes, not to mention the court artist’s depiction of her looking like a doubly fierce Sophia Loren.
While being cross-examined, a questioner began with “When you unfortunately separated from Mr Saatchi..” only for Nigella to immediately bat back with “I wouldn’t say unfortunately.”
And when the defence barrister referred to her supporters as “Team Nigella”, she quickly corrected him, pointing out that they actually call themselves “Team Cupcake”.
Not only does she have buckets of sass, she’s flipping adorable too. Further proof can be found on her website, where the cookie warning notification is accompanied by AN ACTUAL COOKIE. I love it.
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If anything, the last few weeks have made people love Nigella all the more. And the sooner she can put her horrible ex-husband and the court case behind her and get on with happily living her life, the better.
TEAM CUPCAKE!
