Nigella Lawson getting fat; TV chiefs try and hide it

American TV chiefs are worried about sexy TV cook Nigella Lawson's famous curves expanding, it has been claimed.

Directors at The Food Network have even been trying not to show Lawson's voluptuous rear end, the New York Post claims.

"Our spies at the Food Network say Nigella Lawson - the sexy British chef famous for batting her eyelashes, jiggling seductively while grating parmesan and licking a spoon the way Tina Turner handled a microphone - has waaaay overeaten," the paper writes.

And now camera handlers are now reportedly trying to keep the star looking slim on screen.

"The result is a butt like a Budweiser horse," one 'detractor' told the Post. "Her director is now doing back flips to not show her below the waist, and deflects viewer vision by focusing on her cleavage/tongue/eyes more than ever."

A spokesman for The Food Network denies that any changes have been made to the taping of the Nigella Feasts show.

And the flack tells the Post that no new episodes of the show have been taped since October.

Lawson's 'Nigella Feasts' show began airing on the US network in Autumn 2006.