Two Fat Ladies Star Clarissa Dickson Wright dies of a mysterious illness at the age of 66. The Two Fat Ladies TV chef died on Saturday in Edinburgh. According to her literary agents in London, Heather Holden-Brown and Elly James, Wright had already been unwell for several months prior to her death. Brown and James announced the Two Fat Ladies star's death.
Clarissa Dickson Wright was a co-star and co-chef of the popular British TV show in the 1990s named Two Fat Ladies. Because of her and her co-star Jennifer Paterson, the show became much-loved by their cheeky attitude odd antics. Of course, they also became known because of the puzzling recipes they concur on TV.
The Two Fat Ladies star Wright grew up in a prosperous environment, being from a well-to-do family. She was a lawyer at 21, but quickly became an alcoholic as well. Her father Dr. Arthur Dickson Wright, was a prominent surgeon of the royal family. Clarissa Dickinson called her father abusive and an alcoholic. Her mother, Molly Bath, came from a wealthy Australian family.
When both her parents died, Wright received an inheritance which she admitted to spend on alcohol. It wasn't until her 40th birthday that the budding chef got sober and took her cooking seriously.
She was discovered and recruited by a TV producer for Two Fat Ladies at a time when she was still a writer for a cooking column and running her store Books for Cooks in London. The TV producer asked her to join the show together with Jennifer Paterson. Two Fat Ladies was born when Wright accepted the producer's offer. It debuted in 1996 on the BBC and quickly picked up in the US the following year on the Food Network.
The show veered from the norms as it featured not-so-healthy cooking habits. Two Fat Ladies eventually became a book in 1998. It was called "Cooking With the Two Fat Ladies." Two Fat Ladies continued until 1999, when Paterson died of lung cancer.
Two Fat Ladies former star Clarissa Dickson Wright lived in Edinburgh and was survived by two sisters, Heather and June.
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