Off the menu NIGELLA’S WASTING AWAY

Once the thinking man’s bombshell, all dangerous curves and joyous wiggle, Nigella Lawson is a slender shadow of her former self. Not that the new slimline Nigella is in the public eye that much. Having just celebrated her landmark 60th birthday, she has all but dropped from view.

During the initial freedom years after her distressing split from second husband Charles Saatchi in 2013, you would see her at parties in London, hopping in and out of taxis and dining with literary friends such as Salman Rushdie. But, sadly, no more.

Christmas this year was spent in Cornwall with old