Who’d have thought it? Charles Saatchi and Nigella Lawson
both have “friends” – yes, the
important kind that exist only within quotation marks, and who by some
miraculous process unknown to mere mortals manage to brief the cheaper end of
the Fourth Estate as to the exact thoughts of those in the news, who aren’t
actually commenting. Allegedly.
Later Nigella, I need to leave some room for lunch
As the Charles and Nigella marriage lurches sadly but surely
towards the rocks, it has become clear that those “friends” have taken to delivering the views of the protagonists to
rival papers, who are only too pleased to splash the news and possibly garner a
few more sales. The inconvenient thought – that this is a personal affair into
which it might be best not to intrude – is not allowed to enter.
Saatchi got his “friends”
to deliver a claimed “exclusive”
first, with “I'm
divorcing you, Nigella: Saatchi breaks news to wife in exclusive statement to
the Mail on Sunday and says he's 'sorry it's over'... but insists she put her
hand on his throat too” being filled out with claims from poor
Saatchi, who by sheer coincidence leaked the news, claiming that he is the
wronged party.
Moreover, Nigella and her PR are The Ones Wot Done It. Saatchi
“made the ‘heartbreaking’ decision to
formally separate from the television chef because she refused to defend
his reputation after he was pictured with his hand around her neck at
their table”. And the marriage, it is conceded as an afterthought, had been
falling apart for the past year (minor point, eh?).
Sadly for Charlie, he manages to change his story when
asserting that he told Nigella to “pack
your bags and go”. In
the earlier version, he had told her to take the children and go off for a
while until the press interest died down. And he also sounds less than
convincing when explaining away his reasons for attending Charing Cross Police
station and accepting a caution for assault.
Nigella, meanwhile, has managed, via her own “friends”, to
get her version into the Sun. She
was “devastated” and “blindsided” by Saatchi’s “brutal” decision to file for divorce. “The curvy TV chef spent yesterday holed up
at her luxurious Mayfair apartment, crying and trying to figure out what to do
next” readers are told, as well as the reminder that we’re talking about a “domestic goddess” here.
And she had clearly set her heart on reconciliation: “Pals claim she was hoping to reconcile with
Saatchi once she had returned from an upcoming working trip to America”.
Yes, going off to make a shed load of dosh comes before saving marriages. We
can expect more from the magical “friends”
in the future, as this high profile proxy divorce war is played out in public.
As for the children and other relatives – what the hell, there’s papers to sell.
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