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She then segued into the food business, running cookbook stores in London and Edinburgh and operating her own catering business, among other jobs. ( Two Fat Ladies episodes sometimes alluded to Dickson Wright's status as an alcoholic.) She started out as a lawyer but wrote in her 2007 autobiography, Spilling the Beans, that her battle with alcohol put an end to her legal career. together in a motorcycle and sidecar to various locations where they prepared large, high-calorie meals, often with unusual or exotic ingredients.ĭickson Wright was born Clarissa Theresa Philomena Aileen Mary Josephine Agnes Elsie Trilby Louise Esmerelda Dickson Wright on June 24, 1947. The show featured the duo traveling around the U.K. "Loved dearly by her friends and many fans all over the world, Clarissa was utterly non-PC and fought for what she believed in, always, with no thought to her own personal cost."ĭickson Wright filmed four seasons of Two Fat Ladies along with Jennifer Paterson, who died in 1999 of cancer. "Her fun and laughter, extraordinary learning and intelligence, will be missed always by so many of us," Holden-Brown said. PHOTOS: Hollywood's Notable Deaths of 2014 She was 66.ĭickson Wright died Saturday at Edinburgh's Royal Infirmary following a long illness, her agent Heather Holden-Brown told BBC News. Farewell, Clarissa Dickson Wright.Clarissa Dickson Wright, one of the stars of the British cooking show Two Fat Ladies, has died. That’s definitely worth a large, celebratory G&T. Her popularity was testament to the irritation of the public with moralising health freaks, and her philosophy was that life was for living, not for the mere avoidance of death. While she could be a bit of a snob when it came to cheap food, she was still a breath of fresh air at a time when the whole discussion of food comes with a large side order of fear. She certainly liked the high life, making herself bankrupt three times, despite inheriting millions.
It was the litres of tonic (or rather, the quinine they contained) that she consumed with her gin that she claimed screwed up her adrenal glands and made her fat. She grew up in posh St John’s Wood in north London, the daughter of a surgeon (who was also an alcoholic), and even claimed to have had sex behind the speaker’s chair in the House of Commons with an unnamed MP. Dickson Wright was a smart woman with distinctly hedonistic tendencies, as her love of booze revealed – she was a former alcoholic by the time she became a star.
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