Newly single Trinny Woodall steps out looking glum after ex-partner Charles Saatchi enjoyed a cosy lunch date with model Martha Sitwell at Scott’s
Trinny Woodall stepped out looking glum on Monday, days after her ex-partner Charles Saatchi enjoyed a cosy lunch date with model Martha Sitwell.
The entrepreneur and fashion and makeover expert, 59, donned a blue blazer and matching trousers as she strolled in West London.
Underneath, she sported a white T-Shirt and complemented her ensemble with a pair of trainers, toting an orange bag and her phone.
Her outing comes after she returned from a trip to New York last week and her ex-partner of 10 years was spotted having lunch with Martha.
Charles, 79, went to Scott’s with Martha, 43, a haunt where he has previously taken Trinny and his ex-wife Nigella Lawson, 63.
Pensive: Newly single Trinny Woodall stepped out looking glum on Monday after ex-partner Charles Saatchi enjoyed a cosy lunch date with model Martha Sitwell last week
Stroll: The entrepreneur and fashion and makeover expert donned a blue blazer and matching trousers as she strolled in West London
Out and about: Charles was pictured dining a deux with vivacious model Martha, who, at 43, is almost half his age
‘He was canoodling with Martha in his usual corner table. He’s still got it at 80,’ an impressed fellow diner told the Daily Mail’s Richard Eden.
Lady Sitwell confirmed: ‘Yes, we met for lunch’, telling Richard: ‘Charles is a very clever, very funny man.’
The former ‘face’ of Royal Ascot, she takes issue with her fellow diner’s use of the word ‘canoodling’, insisting: ‘We were not “canoodling”; we were making each other laugh.’
Charles is understood to have split earlier this year from Trinny, who made her name giving style tips on the hit BBC show What Not To Wear before becoming a successful beauty entrepreneur.
The couple had been together for a decade.
Last month, Trinny fuelled speculation that the relationship was over by revealing, in an emotional post online, that she had ‘moved house’.
The couple had lived together in London. Sources close to the pair claimed that the 20-year age gap was problematic, with Charles favouring quiet evenings while Trinny preferred to be more sociable.
Nigella divorced him 10 years ago on the grounds of ‘unreasonable behaviour’ following an argument at Scott’s, where he was seen ‘tweaking’ her nose and holding his hands around her throat.
Age difference: Charles is understood to have split earlier this year from Trinny after a 10-year relationship
The Domestic Goddess, who was his third wife, reportedly did not seek any financial settlement, merely requesting to take her cooking appliances.
Martha, the daughter of late gastronome Justin de Blank, married film-producing baronet Sir George Sitwell in 2007 and they lived at his family’s £3.25 million Grade II-listed home, Weston Hall in Northamptonshire.
She held a ‘divorce party’ in 2017 to mark the end of their marriage.
She once described matrimony in general as ‘pure misery’, explaining: ‘It sucks all the energy from you, sucks your youth and all the fun from your life.’
Elsewhere, make-up and beauty mogul Trinny said on Instagram last month that she was moving forward after her split from Charles.
She posted: ‘It’s a new day, it’s a new dawn, it’s a new life.’ She added: ‘I have been moving but now I have moved.’
An emotional sounding Trinny said: ‘I have looked out at this view for the last 30 years of my life. It’s the one consistent view I have ever had.’
‘Recently with the big life change and moving house it was important for me to come back here with (daughter) Lyla and family just to have that moment, listen to the birds, be at one with nature. Very healing.’
Ex: Nigella divorced Charles (pictured together) 10 years ago on the grounds of ‘unreasonable behaviour’ following an argument at Scott’s, where he was seen ‘tweaking’ her nose and holding his hands around her throat
Charles, an ad-man turned art collector, is said to be worth around £100 million. Trinny’s net worth isn’t known but her beauty and skincare brand is said to be worth £180million and rising. He declined to comment yesterday.
In an interview in 2021, Trinny said that she had ‘grown up a lot’ in the relationship saying: ‘I don’t let myself get away with stuff, so if I have a kind of outrage he’ll go: ‘Really, are you kidding?’ And then I’ll go upstairs and think: ‘OK, let me grow up now.’
‘I think that’s what happens when you are with somebody who has been through a lot in their life, and there is nobody who is more supportive of my business and jobs in terms of being my champion.’
The couple started dating in 2013 after Saatchi’s first wife, Kay Hartenstein, reportedly drew up a short list of women who he might like to date.
He had been single since splitting from food writer Nigella Lawson, soon after photographs were published which showed Saatchi holding her by the throat during a lunch at Scott’s in Mayfair.
He explained at the time that it was a ‘playful tiff’ and accepted a police caution.
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