Fucking hell, Nigella picture, WTF? [includes links to upsetting images]

Snazzy that blog piece was just awful. He seems to blame Nigella for what happened and I agree, very sneery about red tops and how they have interpreted it.

I also hope she is quietly working her way out of this situation. Pulling someone's nose, placing your hands around someone's throat while shouting at them is not a 'playful tiff', it's abuse, and no amount of CS or his cronies minimising it will make it anything else.

Oh that's priceless - grabbing someone by the throat is 'playful.'

Might have known CS would be an utter twat about it though.

Playful? The man looks like a giant toddler trying to wind up his 'mummy' and expecting not to be told off for it.

Spoilt, ugly wanker.

CS is an arse

Yup. And many people will go along with it. Including Nigella, probably (for now, at least)

I hope she is quietly, carefully and secretly seeking appropriate help and support.

Crossed post missstrawberry

And now apparently CS has released a statement describing it as a "playful tiff"!!!!

CS has said it "was a playful tiff."

Holy crap!

am watching LW right now

I should really just turn over shouldn't I?

I feel that the Loose Women are about to really piss me off on this subject as they are about to discuss the incident under the heading "do we know how to stop an argument going too far?" - is it just me or does that imply nigella is about to get some of the blame here?

I am a Guardian reader but I am quite hacked off with this Roy Greenslade column about the People story. He basically suggests it was all fine because Nigella didn't immediately leave and gets a bit sneery about the tabloid approach to the story. I also really dislike the 'no one knows what happened but them' line.

or what anyfucker said.

OctopusPete8
Every man and his dog has a camera phone. If a famous couple regularly dine outside a top West End restaurant, why would they NOT expect to be photographed?

That question doesn't compute, Pete

They eat there all the time and always sit in that spot. Pictures of them doing so are regularly published.

apparently NL & CS are regular patrons at Scotts.
And CS smokes so they sit outside

or everyone in London media knows that he's an abusive shit and they had someone on him, or someone in her family tipped them off that he's an abusive shit, or she told someone to be there because she wants to leave him because he's an abusive shit.

seems to me that the reason why the photographer was able to sell the photos is because he's an abusive shit, the whys and wherefores of how the photographer came to be there (and anyway we don't know if it was a member of the public) are the least relevant elements of the story.

Seems to me it's a restaurant that celebrities go to. People are prob paid to lurk qnd wait for stories of affairs, eating disorders or in this case, dv, to drop in their lap

How was there a camera man there at that exact minute?

Yep, the Telegraph have it spot on

I was just listening to the news in the car, and it said "the police are looking at picture evidence of a violent altercation between CS and ND"

wtf ???

it wasn't a "violent altercation"

he attacked her and she tried to appease him

for fucks sake

this this is what Nigella and other abused women are up against ! I despair...

I've just read that piece and was going to link it here but glad to see it's already made it. It's very useful.

That piece is great; thanks for posting the link MadBusLady. It's by Anna Maxted who I've always liked.

Hopefully it will do some good for others to see that DV isn't their fault because they're not pretty/organised/sexy/superwife, because if it happens to Nigella it can happen to anyone.

Well done for getting out Calfecito

Lots of people have mentioned why people do not intervene.

Here is a story about intervention into public domestic violence -

1. My sister was at university and got engaged to her boyfriend who she loved without a doubt.

This guy - drove her to my sisters and told her on the way about how his mum and him were a victim of domestic violence and she had to get out of this relationship - even if it was the first time her boyfriend had been nasty. She was dropped off at my sisters, my brother who then lived 3 hours away drove up and collected all her belongings and moved her stuff out of the flat she shared with her boyfriend.
Then the flowers and gifts would be sent by her ex to my sisters house - and my sister was on to this and just collected them without my sister knowing.

I often wonder if people had not sprung to action to make it clear that his behaviour was completely wrong whether she would still be with him.

This is a very good piece in the Telegraph.