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I am always surprised when people read double entendres into my innocuous babble.

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Nigella Lawson
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: January 6
Journalist
Reality Television
Television Presenter
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London
England
Nigella Lucy Lawson
Hon. Nigella Lucy Lawson
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I wasn't good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn't like the fact that there was no autonomy.
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