Nigella Lawson has recalled the shocking moment MI5 stormed her kitchen after mistakenly fearing there had been an 'assassination attempt' on Salman Rushdie's life.
In an interview with The Sun, the TV cook, 61, recounted the bizarre tale which saw her invite her long-time pal Salman, 74, to dinner only for intelligence officers to assume the worse when her oven exploded.
Salman Spent more than a decade in hiding after his 'blasphemous' 1988 novel The Satanic Verses led a Muslim leader to put a price on his head.
Oh dear! Nigella Lawson has recalled the shocking moment MI5 stormed her kitchen after mistakenly fearing there had been an 'assassination attempt' on Salman Rushdie's life (pictured together in 2005)
But an evening at the food writer's home almost ended in disaster when a her exploding oven caused Salman's protection officers to take action.
She said: 'I’ve known Salman Rushdie since I was 23, and when he had to go into hiding because he had the Fatwa, he came to have dinner with me when I lived in a very little flat.
'Special Branch, who were protecting him, had to go and sit in my bedroom and wait there. When I was cooking, something went wrong with my oven and it kind of blew up, and I ended up looking like Lucille Ball.
Blunder: In an interview with The Sun , the TV cook, 61, recounted the bizarre tale which saw her invite her long-time pal Salman, 74, to dinner only for intelligence officers to assume the worse when her oven exploded.
'I had black-brown cheeks and of course Special Branch obviously thought there had been some sort of assassination attempt on him in my house. They all then stormed into the kitchen in an instant, so that probably is one of the worst blunders.'
Adding a touch of humour to the tale, Nigella then quipped: 'The lamb was ruined'.
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