Charles Saatchi Chokes Nigella Lawson Over Lunch

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Not cool, Charles Saatchi. You can’t go grabbing your celebrity chef wife around her neck right there at lunch. Spousal abuse is about secret shame and in-home terror. Even a child molester knows to carry on their craft in church basements and the backs of cable TV repair vans. Yes, clever move by the veteran ad executive to call the choke-hold a ‘playful tiff‘, but he never should have put himself in the position to begin with. Save it for the punishment room at home when your wife forgets that you like two, not three, cubes of ice in your first scotch of the evening.

Watch the ABC video below if you want to see a woman named Lama talk to an expert who gives trite comments about spousal abuse.

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