“About a week ago, we were sitting outside a restaurant having an intense debate about the children, and I held Nigella’s neck repeatedly while attempting to emphasise my point…..There was no grip, it was a playful tiff. The pictures are horrific but give a far more drastic and violent impression of what took place. Nigella’s tears were because we both hate arguing, not because she had been hurt.”

EXCLUSIVE: ‘It was just a playful tiff’: how Charles Saatchi describes pictures of him holding wife Nigella by the throat (Evening Standard)

If I had the opportunity to squeeze Nigella Lawson, her throat wouldn’t be my first choice.

— Nick Griffin MEP (@nickgriffinmep) June 17, 2013

Everyone stay classy.