Nigella Lawson is back filming… but isn’t her face mask the kind of muslin she uses to strain jam?

Even Nigella Lawson would probably admit that it isn’t the most flattering of accessories.

In fact, it looked as if the usually impeccably glamorous chef had realised she needed a face covering to leave the house and grabbed the first thing to hand – not realising it was a piece of muslin she might normally use to strain jam.

The masked goddess: Nigella was pictured wearing an off-white bandana as a face covering as she arrived at a London TV studio where she has been filming

The Domestic Goddess, 60, was spotted in the off-white bandana – as well as a simple long black dress and white trainers – as she arrived at a London TV studio where she has been filming her screen comeback.

Her new show is expected to be broadcast later this year to coincide with her latest book, Cook, Eat, Repeat, due out in October.

The programme will mark her return to the limelight for the first time since 2017 when she released her 11th book, At My Table.

 Making a point: The star’s covering goes down to her neck and looks like a piece of muslin she might normally use to strain jam

The glamorous chef, 60, has been filming her new show which is expected to be broadcast later this year

The cookery star, who is worth around £15 million, has spent lockdown in her £5 million Central London home with her children Cosima, 26, and Bruno, 24, from her from first marriage to author and journalist John Diamond, who died of cancer in 2001. 

Before that, she was seen celebrating her 60th birthday in January when she said of the milestone: ‘I wanted to be open about my age to stop myself ever being able to lie about it.

‘I had been brought up, as many women are, to feel getting old was something to be ashamed of.’

Ms Lawson was also married to art collector and former advertising guru Charles Saatchi from 2003 to 2013.