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nigella lawson

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sharbie · 19/04/2011 00:48

how strange

www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1378326/Nigella-Lawson-hits-beach-burkini-style-outfit.html

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mandoo · 20/04/2011 08:05

Sorry ladies but she does look at bit mad and if you were on the beach and saw any other woman wearing this you would make some sort of comment good or bad.

Clearly she has pale skin and doesn't want skin cancer so is being extra sensible. What ever Nigella were to wear on that beach she would have been papped and comments would have been made, as we are all doing on this thread. It comes with the territory of being famous. She must have know her 'outfit' would cause a stir.

Good luck to her may I suggest a dolphin outfit for next time to really get everyone going! Grin

Bumperlicioso · 20/04/2011 08:07

'Very.
I think a bikini would have been more flattering.'

Maybe she didn't care about being flattering to other people's eyes. Maybe she didn't want to show a few million newspaper readers her semi naked body.

I ask you, if you were told that a picture of you was going to be on the front page of several newspapers and websites would you don your bikini or cover up?

Twatty misogynistic reporting! Woman can't do right for doing fucking wrong. You don't get splashes showing what Jamie/Hugh/Ainsley fecking Harriot are wearing on the beach do you?

gorionine · 20/04/2011 08:08

"I think a bikini would have been more flattering."

Maybe she her priorities right and "flattering" is not what she was after.

I just love that woman!

ConstanceFelicity · 20/04/2011 08:18

Nigella Lawson is a goddess.

I love her even more for wearing that on the beach. Why the hell shouldn't she?

IngridBergman · 20/04/2011 08:28

Ooh Mandoo how funny Hmm

noddyholder · 20/04/2011 15:22

She is probably being smart! She has lost her mum sister and husband to cancer

Strumpypumpy · 20/04/2011 19:41

I have just moved back to the UK from a hot country. Lots of people choose to wear UV suit things for swimming/beach activities. But admittedly they are normally tighter fitting than this. However, I have seen two Muslim women at a waterpark in Burkinis. Why not? It's safe, and means woman who would not otherwise take part in these sports or swimming can join their children and feel comfortable. Good for her.

Himalaya · 24/04/2011 10:25

And in the Guardian yesterday too. Madeline Bunting does talk twaddle.

I guess it is sun protection,

Anyone inspired to wear on of these then?

littleducks · 24/04/2011 10:33

I saw this in the bank, to 'entertain' the long queue they had pages of the daily mail up in display cases to read....I was not very impressed

Apparently she is out there filming so she probably wanted to go to the beach but needs to remain untanned so as not to ruin the continuity of the programme

But really whatever she wears who cares? It really wound me up the picture of her top riding up focusing in on her bottom.....who wants/needs to see that?

GitAwfMayLend · 24/04/2011 10:40

WHY does Amanda Platell's face look like a reflection in a dessert spoon? She looks like a Tweenie, gawd bless her (and I don't really go in for gratuitous slagging off of women's facial features Kelly Osbourne excepted but AP has committed so many crimes against women I don't feel at all guilty.

Nige is very pale, may well be worried about cancer inducing rays. Or probably didn't want a picture of her tummy splashed all over the Mail.

I think her wearing that is a two fingered salute to the misogyny of the british press (hope so anyway)

GitAwfMayLend · 24/04/2011 10:43

FWIW I have had skin cancer and get around it by never ever ever sitting in the sun - always in the shade, plus factor 50.

God knows what I would do if I went to Australia, probablu stay indoors. The sun is very fierce there isn't it? Perhaps Nige, after losing her husband, mother and sister at young ages due to various cancers, is just a bit more conscious of the risks that most.

Plus, if you had skin that smooth and beautiful, you wouldn't want to turn yourself into a leather handbag would you?

Himalaya · 24/04/2011 12:18

All over black has got to be fairly uncomfortable to wear on the beach, though, white, grey or silver has got to be cooler...

pawsnclaws · 24/04/2011 16:08

Not just her husband, I believe her sister died young of cancer (I should probably hve checked that first). Her business what she wears anyway.

DontdoitKatie · 24/04/2011 16:13

Good for her. The Daily Mail shouldn't be taking pictures of her on the beach anyway. If they hadn't the only people who would have seen and probably forgotten about her, would have been the other beachgoers. What about privacy.

slug · 24/04/2011 16:36

Australia is under the hole in the ozone layer. The sun there burns you quicker than it does here in Europe. When I swim in the sea in Oz or NZ I always wear a thin long sleevedvshirt over my swimsuit and often an old pair of shorts too to keep the tops of my legs from burning. Even with factor 50 my face starts burning after 15 minutes. Nigella's outfit is simply sensible.

BunnySpiroSpero · 24/04/2011 16:47

Wandering slightly from the topic - did anyone see the photo of her daughter in the paper the follwing day wearing a bikini - she's stunning - was extremely Envy but then she is half my age....Sad

pawsnclaws · 24/04/2011 18:02

Sorry typing in a hurry ... GitAwf already made the point about family cancer better than I did.

kyacat · 24/04/2011 21:59

Urgh. Bloody DM. They have dragged this photo out at EVERY opportunity this week. I agree she can't win, if she had a bikini on she'd be photographed and judged for that too.

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