Delia Smith Biography
Delia Smith is an English cook and television presenter best known for teaching basic cooking skills in a straightforward manner. She is also well-known for her role as a joint majority shareholder in Norwich City Football Club.
How old is Delia Smith’s?- Age
Smith is 81 years old as of June 2022. She was born Delia Ann Smith on 18 June 1941 in Woking, United Kingdom.
Delia Smith Education
Smith attended Bexleyheath School and graduated at the age of 16 with no O-levels. Smith was a member of a Congregationalist Brownie troop, a Methodist Sunday school, and, later, a Church of England youth organization.
Delia Smith Height
Delia stands at a height of 5 feet 7 inches(1.71 m) tall.
Delia Smith Parents- Family
She was born Delia Ann Smith on 18 June 1941 in Woking, United Kingdom. Smith was born to a Welsh mother Etty Jones Lewis and an English radio operator Harold Bartlett Smith.
Delia Smith Husband – Children
Delia Smith Net Worth
Delia has an estimated net worth of $36 Million.
Delia Smith Religion
Smith was baptized in the Church of England. When she was twenty-two, she converted to Catholicism. Smith criticized atheism in 2012, claiming that “militant neo-atheists and devoted secularists are busting a gut to drive us [religious people] off the map and try to convince us that we hardly exist.”
Delia Smith Restaurant – Career
When she was 21, she started working at a small Paddington restaurant, first cleaning dishes before moving on to waitressing and then assisting with cooking. She started reading English food books in the British Museum Reading Room and tried out the recipes on a Harley Street family she was living with. Her next job was as a food prep assistant at London’s Carlton Studios. Smith was hired in 1969 to write about cooking for the newly launched Daily Mirror magazine. She later married Michael Wynn-Jones, their deputy editor. Her first course included cheesecake, beer-braised meat, and kipper pâté. Smith first appeared on television in the 1970s on BBC East’s regional magazine show Look East. She made the cake that appeared on the album cover of Let It Bleed by The Rolling Stones. The Winter Collection by Smith, published in 1995, became the fifth-best-selling book of the 1990s after selling 2 million hardcover copies. Smith announced her retirement from television in 2003, but she came back in 2008 for a six-part series.