He was always for being public. I was married to someone who liked all that. I never did. It wouldn't be my way of doing it. But doing it in your life is another matter.
Real life does have a way of asserting itself.
Of course.'' John Diamond was beginning to establish himself as a broadcaster when he was diagnosed with oral cancer in 1995. But obviously the situation was complicated. Diamond communicated by writing on notepads. Often two people who are quite different get married,'' Nigella says, ''and you think you like someone because there is that difference. So for me that meant John's showy-offy character.