The photographer who took pictures of Nigella Lawson being attacked by husband Charles Saatchi has said he has been inundated with requests from media organisations.

The photographer, who does not wish to be named, also told Press Gazette that the set of snaps sold to the Sunday People for last weekend’s splash were not offered to other papers, though he said he would have taken them to The Mail On Sunday had the People turned them down.

Since the story broke on Sunday, he has sold copies of the pictures, which show Saatchi grabbing Lawson's neck, to news outlets as far afield as Poland, China and Malaysia, as well as to several in the US.