Nigella's cooking is 'wasted' on husband Saatchi
With the Domestic Goddess as his wife, Charles Saatchi has an array of culinary delights to choose from when it comes to meal times.
But it seems Nigella Lawson's talents are wasted on her millionaire art collector husband.
For he has admitted that he doesn't eat any of her creations - which include gammon cooked in cola and champagne risotto.
Instead he prefers to dine on cheap processed cheese on toast and breakfast cereal.
Asked what he thought of his 46-year-old wife's cooking, Saatchi, who has recently been seen sporting an expanding waistline, said: "I'm sure it's fantastic, but a bit wasted on me.
"I like toast with Dairylea on, followed by Weetabix for supper."
"It drives her to distraction particularly as she gets the blame for my new fat look".
In an interview for The Independent, Saatchi, 63, said he was the only one in the family who did not enjoy Miss Lawson's recipes.
"The children love her cooking, and our friends seem to look forward to it", he added.
He also defended his wife's disastrous ITV1 chatshow, which was slated by the critics and ended after just one series.
Saatchi said she had only done the programme because she "owed somebody a favour and repaid it in full with that show".
"But what's not to like?", he added.
"I and a few million other Nigella fans enjoyed it anyway because we could happily stare at her all day".
The celebrity chef's lunchtime show lost almost 400,000 viewers in its first week last July, dropping from one million to around 600,000.
Critics were not impressed, describing it as "among the worst programmes I've ever seen".
Miss Lawson and Saatchi married three years ago following the death of her first husband John Diamond, from throat cancer at the age of 47.
Mr Diamond, the father of her two children Cosima, 13, and Bruno, ten, had been the driving force behind her career, advising her to make her hugely successful TV cookery shows.
She would shoot Nigella Bites by day and visit Mr Diamond in hospital by night.
Since marrying Saatchi, who is notoriously private, in 2003 she has kept a lower profile.
Her last cookery book, Feast: Food That Celebrates Life, came out in time for Christmas last year.
However she recently finished filming a 13-part series for an American cable channel devoted to food and has also made an episode of the BBC show Who Do You Think You Are?, tracing her family roots.
Earlier this year Miss Lawson told how she has sworn off diets and how Saatchi, who has a £70 million fortune, loves her voluptuous figure.
"I've never been with a man who thinks skinniness is desirable, which helps. It's very important to be with someone who makes you feel madly desirable."
