Charles Saatchi & Trinny Woodall fought at the restaurant where he choked Nigella

It’s been almost a year since the world saw the shocking photos of Charles Saatchi choking his then-wife, Nigella Lawson, in public. They were lunching at Saatchi’s favorite restaurant, Scotts in Mayfair, when the deed happened. I went back and looked at those photos again, and Nigella looks so scared. She’s doing well for herself these days. I wish her nothing but healing and happiness.

After the throttling incident, Nigella almost immediately moved out of the marital home. Saatchi received a mere police caution and explained the fight as “a playful tiff.” Then he tried to say he was only picking her nose. After Nigella refused to defend him, Saatchi filed for divorce and threatened suicide. He also said he was divorcing her because she was a raging cokehead (she wasn’t). Nigella admitted to occasional coke use in her past, and she described her marriage as “intimate terrorism.”

Saatchi unofficially “won” Scott’s restaurant in the divorce. He quickly started dating UK tellie presenter Trinny Woodall. She began to regularly dine with him at Scotts, and there are tons of paparazzi photos of them enjoying meals at the infamous “throttling” table. Trinny raved about Saatchi to the media and made an inappropriate joke: “It’s great that, at 50, life can still grab you by the throat and shake you up.”

After nine months of dating, Saatchi is showing his true colors again — in public. The Mail has photos of Trinny and Saatchi arguing as they dine at Scotts. You have to scroll down to the bottom of this article to see pictures of Trinny crying. That’s disturbing enough already, but wait until you read Saatchi’s email in response to the Mail’s inquiry:

It seems Charles Saatchi’s favourite table at Scott’s restaurant holds no bad memories for Trinny Woodall despite being reduced to tears at it last week. The TV presenter was spotted crying her eyes out last Saturday in the company of the advertising mogul, but hours later they were seen arriving at his house with her suitcases in tow.

Saatchi and Woodall returned to the scene of the teary crime on Sunday, as though to prove the point that they are happier than ever. It seems Trinny manged to put any issues from earlier in the day behind her to stay with the millionaire art collector last Saturday evening. Earlier in the day she had been seen apparently wiping back tears from her face outside the couple’s favourite restaurant in Mayfair.

The exchange comes almost a year after Saatchi was seen rowing with his now ex wife Nigella Lawson in exactly the same spot. His now girlfriend appeared to become overcome with emotion during their three hour lunch, however lawyers for both parties have denied there was an argument.

However the images are still likely to raise questions about whether the couple’s nine-month romance is on the rocks. Onlookers claim the pair were indeed arguing and Trinny, who barely touched her food, burst into tears as the argument escalated, hiding behind huge dark glasses and smoking anxiously.

“She was a bag of nerves,” said one onlooker. “Her hair looked all ruffled and her make up was smudged. At one stage she removed her sunglasses to wipe away tears.” The art mogul drank almost a full bottle of red wine and smoked copiously during the lunch at what has become their restaurant of choice.

Trinny was also smoking but does not drink. As the meal ended, Saatchi stalked off towards the taxi rank while Trinny sat alone at the table for a moment as if trying to compose herself. She then followed him to the waiting cab.

When contacted by The Mail on Sunday, Saatchi denied there had been an argument. He emailed: “Why not send a photographer to Scott’s tomorrow lunchtime, and I will give Trinny a good throttling in time for your deadline?”

[From Daily Mail]

Not only did Saatchi throw attitude when contacted by the Mail, but both his lawyers and Trinny’s lawyers denied that any argument took place. If you look at the pictures, they are clearly arguing about something. This whole situation is extremely scary, and I hope Trinny soon realizes that Saatchi is a violent creature who will never change.

Run, Trinny. Run.

Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News & WENN

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