{"id":42928,"date":"2013-06-18T08:27:23","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T07:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/nigella-lawson-apparently-choked-by-her-husband-in-the-middle-of-a-restaurant-and-nobody-stepped-in-to-stop-it\/42928\/"},"modified":"2013-06-18T08:27:23","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T07:27:23","slug":"nigella-lawson-apparently-choked-by-her-husband-in-the-middle-of-a-restaurant-and-nobody-stepped-in-to-stop-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/nigella-lawson-apparently-choked-by-her-husband-in-the-middle-of-a-restaurant-and-nobody-stepped-in-to-stop-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigella Lawson Apparently Choked by Her Husband in the Middle of a Restaurant — and Nobody Stepped in to Stop It"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If ever there were a woman who represented the ideal of homey perfection, it\u2019d be Nigella Lawson. This, after all, is the woman who jokingly titled one of her cookbooks \u201cHow to Be a Domestic Goddess,\u201d a woman whose television show \u201cNigella Bites\u201d frequently ended with her triumphantly feeding an eager crowd<\/a>\u00a0(or just her two children<\/a>).<\/p>\n

So it came as stunning news Sunday when the Mirror\u2019s People page published a series of photographs showing the British food writer and television personality apparently being choked by her husband<\/a>\u00a0Charles Saatchi during a recent lunch at Scott\u2019s restaurant in London. In the series of photographs, the man\u2019s hand is seen extended across a table and around Lawson\u2019s throat. As the Mirror sensationally describes it, \u201cAt first he used only his left hand, then both. At one stage he tweaked her nose then pushed both hands in her face. Twice Nigella jerked her head backwards as if in fear.\u201d Strangely, soon after, she reportedly kissed him on the cheek.\u00a0Another photo shows her apparently crying and visibly upset, leaving the restaurant. Police are now investigating the incident but have not launched a formal investigation. <\/p>\n

Saatchi, a renowned advertising executive and art dealer, has insisted the photographs don\u2019t tell the true story. In a conversation with the Evening Standard, he says, \u201cAbout a week ago, we were sitting outside a restaurant having an intense debate about the children, and I held Nigella\u2019s neck repeatedly while attempting to emphasize my point<\/a>. There was no grip, it was a playful tiff. The pictures are horrific but give a far more drastic and violent impression of what took place. Nigella\u2019s tears were because we both hate arguing, not because she had been hurt. We had made up by the time we were home. The paparazzi were congregated outside our house after the story broke yesterday morning, so I told Nigella to take the kids off till the dust settled.\u201d Hint: If you can acknowledge that you were having an \u201cintense\u201d argument and that during it you put your hands around a woman\u2019s throat \u201cto make a point,\u201d there\u2019s going to be a whole lot of serious question as to how \u201cplayful\u201d your actions were, sir. Next time you\u2019re looking for \u201cemphasis,\u201d try it a little further away from an artery.\u00a0The 53 year-old Lawson, meanwhile, has only confirmed via a spokesman that she and two her children by her late first husband John Diamond have moved out of their London home, with no further comment. Her rep told Us this week, \u201cWe will not be commenting on the images.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Lawson has said in the past of her marriage that \u201cI\u2019ll go quiet when he explodes<\/a>, and then I am a nest of horrible festeringness.\u201d And last year, Saatchi was photographed at a restaurant conspicuously clamping his hand over his wife\u2019s mouth.\u00a0Lawson, who has lavishly recalled her late mother in her books and television shows, has admitted that she would threaten, \u201cI\u2019m going to hit you till you cry,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and once hit her brother so hard she hurt her hand. <\/p>\n

What exactly led to that hand around Lawson\u2019s throat \u2014 a moment captured by a photographer skulking outside \u2014 is unknown. What is known is the conservative MP and all around dirtbag Nick Griffin quickly took the opportunity to tweet that \u201cIf I had the opportunity to squeeze Nigella Lawson, her throat wouldn\u2019t be my first choice.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0What is known is that a member of the paparazzi made money selling the images. What is known is the unbylined Mirror staff were able to find onlookers who said the incident was \u201cutterly shocking to watch,\u201d that Lawson \u201chad a real look of fear on her face,\u201d and that \u201cHe was being intimidating, threatening\u201d and \u201cabusive, frightening and disrespectful\u201d \u2014 and yet they couldn\u2019t find a single person who\u2019d intervened in the slightest while a woman was being \u201cattacked\u201d in broad daylight. <\/p>\n

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