The cooking legend is letting someone else take control of the stressful task of making Christmas Dinner. She is visiting her nephew and his wife in Norfolk and said she is 'really happy'.

So synonymous is she with cooking that her first name ... and broadcasts that Queen Elizabeth II made Delia Smith a Companion of Honour. At Christmas, Sheila Dillon invites Delia, now 81, into ...

Not least when the queen of the kitchen, Delia Smith, is involved ... she attacks chefs who taste their cooking on screen, a well-known vice of Nigella, also known as the Domestic Goddess.