NIGELLA Lawson looks demure as a Newsnight reporter in a resurfaced clip from 1997. The sensuous chef, 60, is now loved and best known for her naughty innuendos in the kitchen and suggestive mannerisms.
But before she whipped viewers into a frenzy in the kitchen, Nigella was a journalist and food critic. A year before the release of her debut cook book How To Eat, Nigella appeared on the BBC's Newsnight for a report on how Princess Diana changed attitudes towards working women.
In the clip, Nigella, then aged 37, wore minimal makeup and dressed smartly in a black suit and red shirt. She said: "Diana initially came by her status and her fame by the traditional route for women, through marriage. "She later epitomised the modern self-invented.
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