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

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Tomorrow's Sunday People cover. Where do we even start with this?

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.

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...

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

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

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.

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

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

That question doesn't compute, Pete

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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?

or what anyfucker said.

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.

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 should really just turn over shouldn't I?

am watching LW right now

CS has said it "was a playful tiff."

Holy crap!

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

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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.

CS is an arse

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.

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

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

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.

From the Telegraph today:

'However, breaking his silence about the incident, Mr Saatchi today issued a statement in which he sought to play down the significance of the row.

?About a week ago, we were sitting outside a restaurant having an intense debate about the children, and I held Nigella?s neck repeatedly while attempting to emphasise my point,? he told the Evening Standard.

?There was no grip, it was a playful tiff. The pictures are horrific but give a far more drastic and violent impression of what took place. Nigella?s tears were because we both hate arguing, not because she had been hurt.

?We had made up by the time we were home. The paparazzi were congregated outside our house after the story broke yesterday morning, so I told Nigella to take the kids off till the dust settled.?

'Yeah right' just about sums that up then

However,

'Asked to comment on reports that she had moved out, her spokesman said: ?I can clarify that she has left the family home with her children.?'

is better. I hope she doesn't go back.

And what point might that have been?