I’d be interested to be pointed out some actual journalism from her. She’s deluded if she thinks those columns are journalism FFS. the Lady I used to work for back in the day from 2011 onwards always saved the weekend magazines from the papers for me to read. The Saturday Guardian was one of them and, being interested in makeup, I used to read her columns. I remember being distinctly underwhelmed of a few paragraphs that actually said very little, if anything, of substance.
As for one of the original influencers with actual substance, I worked in Space NK back in 2000 (the good old days of the company, when it was still fresh and the products were still exclusive to Space NK) Apart from the visits from the witch area managers from hell, we had a great time and it was so much fun. Every Saturday morning we would have plenty of women coming in with a copy of the Times Saturday magazine asking for a product Nigella had recommended. Nigella knows how to write beautifully and she was hugely influential at the time.