 Image caption Clarissa Dickson Wright went on to front several TV shows solo, including Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner in 2012 
 
 Clarissa Dickson Wright, one half of TV cookery duo Two Fat Ladies with the late Jennifer Paterson, has died in Edinburgh aged 66. Following her screen partner's death in 1999 aged 71, Dickson Wright appeared in other television programmes including Clarissa and the Countryman with presenter, naturalist and baronet Sir John (Johnny) Scott.  Clarissa Dickson Wright, who rose to middle-aged fame as the co-star and co-chef of “Two Fat Ladies,” a popular British television show known as much for the hosts’ irreverence and eccentricity as for their indulgent and sometimes confounding recipes, died on Saturday in Edinburgh. Dickson Wright's agents, Heather Holden-Brown and Elly James, said her fun, laughter and intelligence would be missed: "Clarissa was utterly non-PC and fought for what she believed in, always, with no thought to her own personal cost." Producer Patricia Llewellyn, who teamed her up with Jennifer Paterson for the Fat Ladies show – in which they toured the UK in a motorcycle-sidecar – first met Dickson Wright when the cook decided to launch a one-woman campaign to get the cardoon back on to British dining tables. Her forthcoming birthday on 24 June would have marked her 27th anniversary of abstinence, a birthday her agent said "meant much more to her than another year on the clock". She would joke that she had put on her weight without the help of junk food. "She knew what good service was all about… she did her own thing." She also became one of only two women in England to become a guild butcher. She recently said: "I've had a fantastic life and I've done everything I could have wanted to do and more". Worked with her many times and it was always fun, at least for me. Clarissa Dickson Wright was born Clarissa Theresa Philomena Aileen Mary Josephine Agnes Elsie Trilby Louise Esmerelda Dickson Wright on June 24, 1947, in the St. John’s Wood section of London. The only time we felt safe was when my father was abroad or, in my case, when I was at boarding school," she wrote. But he was also a violent alcoholic who beat Dickson Wright and her mother. In 2011 she told the Guardian she did not worry about ageing.
– Both of TV's "Fat Ladies" have sung. Clarissa Dickson Wright, one half of the BBC's "Two Fat Ladies" cooking duo, died in Edinburgh Saturday at age 66, the BBC reports. Wright was a former lawyer who filmed four of the "Fat Ladies" series, going on food-related road trips across the UK in a motorbike and sidecar with Jennifer Paterson, before Paterson died in 1999 from cancer. The New York Times describes Wright as a "rebel," both hosts as "irreverent and eccentric," and the recipes as "sometimes confounding." Wright's eclectic working life also included stints as a cook, an author, and a cookbook shop manager; she also ran a catering business, was a guild butcher, and once worked on a yacht in the Caribbean. In fact, she recently said, "I've had a fantastic life and I've done everything I could have wanted to do and more." It wasn't until her 40s, after she'd recovered from alcoholism, that she got into cooking seriously. As for the perhaps-controversial title of the show that brought her fame? "If you're fat you're fat," she once said. "I hate this modern-day political correctness, that you don't call things by their proper name." Her agent remembers Wright similarly in a statement: "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." There's no word on Wright's cause of death, but the Guardian reports that she had been undergoing treatment at a hospital since the beginning of the year.