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Nigella’s Twitter feud with ex’s new girlfriend

Nigella Lawson and Trinny Woodall.

Nigella Lawson and Trinny Woodall.

The domestic goddess tweeted the pasta alla puttanesca – Italian for “spaghetti a la whore” – link as her recipe of the day alongside the words “need I say more?”.

Slut’s Spaghetti – aka pasta alla puttanesca – is #recipeoftheday . Do I need to say anything more? http://t.co/maRdgWuXS2

The post was an apparent reference to her former husband Charles Saatchi’s new girlfriend Trinny Woodall, who hours earlier tweeted a tasteless joke seemingly about Saatchi’s abuse of Lawson.

Writing about turning 50, Woodall wrote: “It’s great that, at 50, life can still grab you by the throat and shake you up.”

Saatchi was last year photographed apparently choking Lawson in a Mayfair restaurant – the same establishment now frequented by Saatchi and Woodall.

Lawson’s retaliatory tweet was a huge hit with her followers and was retweeted and favourited hundreds of times, leading her to post a denial that the message had any “agenda” other than promoting a delicious recipe.

Folks: no agenda behind #recipeoftheday! Slut’s Spaghetti an old fave of mine. http://t.co/maRdgWuXS2

But Lawson fans wouldn’t accept this answer, further speculating the tweet could be a reference to Lawson’s former aide Francesca Grillo, who was yesterday revealed to be having an affair with a married former police officer.

Grillo was last year cleared of fraud in a sensational court case that saw Lawson admit to occasional drug use.

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