‘Although Jennifer was incredibly intelligent in her own right, she didn’t have the formal education. I think it was clear that Clarissa was intellectually Jennifer’s superior. ‘They were both such strong characters: loud, clever. ‘They clashed, simple as that,’ says Mr Scott. To watch the duo on TV was enchanting witnessing them in the same room in real life was more nerve-jangling, it seems. She could be very forthright - her nickname wasn’t Krakatoa for nothing - but there was not that edge to her.’ ‘Clarissa got some of that - not to her face, as far as I can remember, but behind her back.’ Was this nastiness returned? ‘On the way home, I said: “You will have to go to confession over that” (Jennifer was a devout Roman Catholic). She ended by saying “And you have the mark of Cain on your face”. ‘I remember her having an argument with a man who had a birthmark on his face. ‘There was a nasty side to her, a deliberate, cruel side, all her friends knew it. ‘I think the problems came more from Jennifer,’ says Mr Scott. She always spoke warmly of the older woman in interviews, once describing her as “protective” of her. Instead she ate the caviar, in surely the most fitting of tributes, after the funeral. Clarissa claimed she spoke to Jennifer on the telephone most days in the weeks before her death, and took her a jar of caviar on the day she died - but was too late. ‘I never minded sitting in the sidecar when she drove, even if I knew she was on her second bottle of vodka,’ she said in an interview, pointing out that since she herself had driven while drunk, it was no big deal.Īnd they certainly stayed in touch once the cameras stopped rolling. Hilariously, Clarissa once admitted how she placed her entire life in Jennifer’s hands. And there was certainly a level of trust there. While it was never claimed that the women were the best of friends (they did not even know each other before being paired up by TV guru Pat Llewellyn), it was thought they were rather fond of each other. In the event she was seated in the third row. Clarissa Dickson Wright who died on Saturday

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