GREED BECOMES HER: Lawson says it is partly greed that drives her to come up with recipes. Well, that's just good news for her fans.

AFTER Nigella Express was screened in Britain, there were rumblings that the kitchen featured in the show is actually a set housed in an industrial building and not her home.

What she says: 'Where I cook in Nigella Express, contrary to what you may have read, is not an industrial building. It's like a little house and the children love doing sleepovers there.

'But it's not my home. It is partly an insurance against lack of earning when I get older. And I also needed a bigger workspace than I can get at home.

'I live in Chelsea and it's in Battersea. So I have a nice walk across the bridge over the river and it's quite useful because it's near my son's school and he can come over straight from school.'

LAWSON, who has a 13-year-old daughter and an 11-year-old son from her first marriage to the late journalist John Diamond, made waves when the media reported that she would leave nothing to her children in her will. Her second husband is multi-millionaire and art patron Charles Saatchi.

The controversy arose from a story in My Weekly magazine, in which she was quoted as saying: 'I am determined that my children should have no financial security. It ruins people not having to earn money.'

What she says: 'What I said was taken out of context. By the way, I didn't even give an interview to that magazine, so I don't know how that happened.

'But what I've always said generally is, 'They have to work, they have to work for a living.' It's the most important thing in the world. You don't do your children any favours by letting them have money without having to work for it.

'So that's what I've said, but I've never discussed my will with anyone, not even them.'