![]() ![]() The program became a big international hit for the BBC and ran until Paterson died of cancer in 1999, aged 71. In Two Fat Ladies, Dickson Wright and Jennifer Paterson travelled Britain in an old Triumph motorcycle and sidecar, cooking lavish meals inspired by local tradition and trading quips about life, love and food. After giving up alcohol she worked as caterer and ran a cookbook store before being talent-spotted by the BBC for a new series. ![]() She worked as a lawyer until her own alcoholism put an early end to a high-flying career. Her agents, Heather Holden-Brown and Elly James, said Dickson Wright died Saturday at Edinburgh’s Royal Infirmary of an unspecified illness.Ĭlarissa Theresa Philomena Aileen Mary Josephine Agnes Elsie Trilby Louise Esmerelda Dickson Wright grew up in an affluent London family, the daughter of a brilliant surgeon who was also a violent alcoholic. LONDON-Clarissa Dickson Wright, a vivid and outspoken British television personality who found fame as half of the food-loving duo Two Fat Ladies, has died at the age of 66. ![]()
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