Nigella Lawson pictures: ‘Playful’ behaviour or just unacceptable abuse?

The photos of celebrity chef Nigella Lawson being grabbed around the throat by her husband are disturbing. He said he was just being ‘playful’. It’s not acceptable behaviour, says Barbara Scully

"The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still faithful interpreter - in the eye." So wrote Charlotte Bronte in the novel Jane Eyre.

Nigella Lawson has beautiful eyes, dark, almond-shaped pools complemented by her full, ruby-red lips, which are famed for licking spoons with a decadence and abandon that speak of a woman comfortable in her skin, happy with her voluptuous curves, and successful in life.