Celebrity chefs tend to come out of the restaurant trade
which is notorious for it's rotten working hours and conditions - most women have family commitments.

People like Nigella came from a journalism background.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Thu 3 Sep 2009, 9:50, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

That seems a fair answer.

( Cawl, Thu 3 Sep 2009, 9:51, Reply)

Deliah was a teacher or something.

(PsychoChomp, Thu 3 Sep 2009, 9:53, Reply)

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"Her first job was as a hairdresser, and she also worked as a shop assistant and in a travel agency before starting her career in cookery."
( Cawl, Thu 3 Sep 2009, 9:55, Reply)

And don't forget
she's also a drunken football hooligan.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Thu 3 Sep 2009, 10:03, Reply)