Nigella Lawson due for Oprah interview

Nigella Lawson is to be interviewed by Oprah Winfrey.

The 53-year-old chef - who recently confessed to taking cocaine and saw her marriage to Charles Saatchi end following the publication of photographs of him with his hands round her throat - has agreed a deal for a sit-down discussion on camera with the US broadcaster, Isleworth Crown Court heard today during the ongoing fraud case against her former assistants, Elisabetta and Francesca Grillo.