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

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twitter.com/suttonnick/status/346017840106704898/photo/1

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

Learn to keep your hands to yourself Charles Saatchi while "emphasising your point." You fucking bully.

My children were taught that as TODDLERS.

Hmm, unless their argument was about the exact location of the jugular vein, I have no idea what point is better emphasised by a hand round the neck.

As it's caught on camera and he can't deny it happened, his only PR option is to do what he has done and try to make out it's a misinterpretation. I notice he doesn't say what point he was making that can be helpfully emphasised by 'pretending' to throttle someone

I imagine he is now putting pressure on her to appear in public with him looking happy and/or to say it's all fine. I hope she gets good advice and doesn't feel she has to just go along with anything.

CaptChaos I have complained to the readers' editor at the Guardian about it as it is so distasteful. Will be interested to see what response I get.

It's a bit of a PR fail really isn't it.

' I held Nigella?s neck repeatedly while attempting to emphasise my point,'

doesn't quite work does it in terms of trying to minimise it.

I mean people aren't going to read that and go 'Oh, well that's Ok then' are they. What a thick twat.

I hope that people will see through the ludicrous explanation. I think his statement has just made him look more guilty - she was crying because she was upset not because she was hurt. Oh that's ok then. EA bastard at the very least then.

can't we comment on the greenslade blog?

I held Nigella?s neck repeatedly while attempting to emphasise my point

Yeah, right. As you do.

FFS

jeremy vine has just said">>>>even in a restuarant? You couldn't do any real harm in a restuarant?" THERE IS HARM BEING DONE she is being assaulted ffs

Aitch I looked for comments and couldn't see any on there

He really does appear to be losing his grasp on reality. Is that the best he could come up with? That's just one up from "a big boy did it and ran away"

What a vile bully he is. I really hope this is a catalyst for Nigella. I find it so, so sad that a woman who is pretty much idolised all over the world thinks so little of herself that she accepts such appalling treatment.

On another thread I am on about this, apparently MrSaatchi has said it was "a playful tiff".

Oh, the old emphatic neck hold! Obviously! Now we all feel silly for thinking it was abuse don't we?

What an absolute cunt.

That 'explanation' has made me sick.

I too looked for a place to comment on the greenslade blog. I wanted to correct his statement re it being "crystal clear" that there had been no complaint to the police. I complained and was told by the 101 operator that they had received many other complaints, as a result of which the incident was being "investigated" (her word).

Greenslade would appear to be a sneering ill-informed arsewipe.

Well, regardless of how this story was spun and it being placed in the less than savoury People, the photos seem to suggest abuse. Roy Greenslade's angle appalls me. Fair enough of him to question the media/twitter feeding frenzy and effect on their "brand" etc. But to doubt the legitimacy of the abuse accusations levelled at CS? At Grauniad doing this and big thumbs up to Telegraph for their sensitive, non-sensationalist article.

Wow, he is off the map, isn't he. Totally lost his grip on reality. "Yes, I am an abusive twunt who uses physical force in arguments" would have been quicker and more to the point.

Amazingly, he can't have just come up with this himself, other people must have worked on it with him. So either they're all totally out of their tiny minds or he's a bully in his work life as well.

Roy Greenslade never misses an opportunity to be a slightly reactionary old twat, particularly when it involves a chance to have a go at Twitter. A feature of several of the older male Guardian writers, actually.

I also particularly disliked Greenslade's 'Before anyone else points it out, I'm aware that Nigella knows all about other kinds of feeding frenzies', which comes across as having a misogynistic pop at a woman who has just had a very painful and humiliating public experience.

Aitch No, no comment facility on the article. I have seen a few other negative comments so I hope something is done about it. Frankly it's embarrassing for the Guardian that they published it as it reads. I have to wonder whether Greenslade is a mate of Saatchi's, and because he is a journalism prof no editor wanted to say, 'erm, this is not really on'.

As far as I can tell, the best place to complain about that piece is via [email protected] . I know it's secondary to the main events being discussed here but I think crappy media commentary on it should be called out as it is unhelpful to the whole perception of DV.

This explanation attempt makes it sound worse.

Jeremy Vine I hate you.

Is this a CS statement or issued as a joint statement?

Yes, I often find when I'm having a particularly heated discussion with work colleagues that I grab them around the throat to emphasise my point. Oh wait, I don't do that because (among other reasons) I would get the sack if I did so.

As to "do we know how to stop an argument going too far?" - Christ! What else can we be responsible for?

Is it normally possible to comment on RG's column, anyone know? Wonder if they expected/sought (?) controversy and therefore deleted the comment option this one time.

thanks, snazzy, have emailed.

A nice touch for him to mention they were arguing over the children - it was probably all their fault