With her luxurious bakes and pin-up appears, she is the consummate home goddess.
Or so we thought. For Nigella Lawson has admitted there may be one family chore she’s going to by no means do – the ironing.
In truth, such is the TV cook dinner’s hatred for the duty, she would not even personal an ironing board, choosing a steamer as a substitute.
Speaking to Zoe Ball on BBC Radio 2 yesterday, Ms Lawson, 63, revealed: ‘I steam, I do not iron. And as you’ll be able to see, I’m not a very uncrumpled individual in my pure state.’ She added: ‘Also, I appear to have bits of cake batter on my sleeve.’
Ms Ball was so shocked that she requested her visitor thrice whether or not the admission was true.
But whereas ditching an iron is anathema to some, it seems to be selecting up steam with millennials. Lakeland’s 2023 Trends Report revealed that 30 per cent of 18 to 34-year-olds do not personal an iron.
When requested why, a fifth stated their garments do not want ironing whereas one other fifth stated the chore was merely ‘not vital’.
Nigella Lawson (pictured) has admitted there may be one family chore she’s going to by no means do – the ironing
One in three millennials don’t personal an iron whereas one other fifth say the chore is solely ‘not vital’ (File picture)
Ms Lawson additionally revealed that, aside from ironing, wrapping Christmas presents is ‘the job I hate essentially the most’, regardless of as soon as promoting wrapping paper that includes the art work from her cookery e-book How To Be A Domestic Goddess.
She stated: ‘It’s simply that I’m so incompetent that every thing goes mistaken. I at all times have bits of hair caught beneath the Sellotape, it is a nightmare.
‘My late husband John at all times used to say I used to be the one one who might wrap up a e-book and make it seem like it was a bottle of wine.’
While this would possibly come as a shock, it’s not the primary time the TV chef has admitted to skipping extra laborious family duties.
Earlier this 12 months, Ms Lawson revealed she has ‘fallen out of the behavior’ of massive dinner events.
She instructed the Times: ‘I’ll have an individual or a few folks over very often and I preserve planning to have folks spherical in a correct grown-up approach however I have not but. I have to!
‘I really feel a bit responsible as a result of folks have had me for dinner and I have not had them again.’
Ms Lawson just isn’t essentially one for sticking to Christmas custom, both.
She instructed The Sunday Times: ‘Much as I like a slice of dense, damp Christmas cake, particularly when eaten with a slice of robust, sharp cheese, I’m surrounded by those that abominate dried fruit in all its seasonal manifestations.
‘If nobody in your loved ones likes dried fruit, there is not any level having a Christmas cake gathering mud or simply being eaten on sufferance. If chocolate cake appeals extra, go for it.’