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'Two Fat Ladies' TV chef Clarissa Dickson Wright dies at age 66

British celebrity chef Clarissa Dickson Wright, best known as one half of the eccentric television culinary duo "Two Fat Ladies," has died at the age of 66, her agents said on Monday.The former British lawyer, who had fought a well-documented battle with alcoholism, shot to fame in the 1990s with Jennifer Paterson in a BBC TV show in which the two women sped around Britain on a motorcycle and side
Clarissa Dickson Wright
Clarissa Dickson WrightDan Kitwood / Getty Images
Clarissa Dickson Wright
TV chef Clarissa Dickson Wright, half of the duo \"Two Fat Ladies,\" attended the Galaxy British Book Awards in April 2008 in London. She has died at age 66.Dan Kitwood / Today

British celebrity chef Clarissa Dickson Wright, best known as one half of the eccentric television culinary duo "Two Fat Ladies," has died at the age of 66, her agents said on Monday.

The former British lawyer, who had fought a well-documented battle with alcoholism, shot to fame in the 1990s with Jennifer Paterson in a BBC TV show in which the two women sped around Britain on a motorcycle and sidecar searching for good food.

The show featured the two unashamedly large women with a raucous sense of humor enjoying butter-laden dishes and plates of red meat, with Dickson Wright once crediting the global success of the program as a backlash to "the health police".

She died in a hospital in Edinburgh in Scotland on Saturday.

"Loved dearly by her friends and many fans all over the world, Clarissa was utterly non-PC and fought for what she believed in, always, with no thought to her own personal cost,"said a statement from her agents, Elly James and Heather Holden-Brown.

Paterson died of lung cancer in 1999 at the age of 71.

London-born Dickson Wright started out as a barrister in London, but her career in law was brought to "an abrupt end" by her battle with alcohol. Her agency said her birthday this June would have marked her 27th year of no drinking.

After leaving law, she worked as a cook in a London club and private houses, running a catering business and a cookery bookshop in Edinburgh.