So, early to bed, Nigella... quick to forget your old life

NIGELLA Lawson, aka the Domestic Goddess, says that middle age has turned her into a grumpy old woman whose idea of heaven is an early night.

‘I would very happily go to bed at 7.30pm,’ she says. ‘I don’t do much sleeping but I need to be lying down… when you’re younger, people think you shouldn’t be that person, but now I really don’t mind about that.’

Far be it from me to dispute Nigella but my abiding memory from the torrid court case involving her ex Charles Saatchi was the amount of time the couple spent eating, drinking and watching television in bed. Perhaps like many of us, Nigella can add memory loss to the ravages of age.