Delia Smith In 2008, it was reported that Smith had rejected an offer from Norfolk-born billionaire Peter Cullum, who wished to invest £20 million in the club, but wanted Smith and the other shareholders to relinquish their holdings. Both Smith and Cullin denied this offer had been made, with Smith telling the football club's AGM that she and her husband would be "very happy to stand aside" as majority shareholders if someone came along with an offer to buy them out. In August 2011, Smith announced that, anticipating her 70th birthday, she was stepping down from her catering role at Norwich City's
Delia Smith in the 1970s and early 1980s when she was an occasional guest on the BBC's Saturday morning children's programme "Multicoloured Swap Shop", giving basic cooking demonstrations. Her 1995 book "Delia Smith's The Winter Collection" sold 2 million copies in hardback, becoming the fifth biggest-selling book of the 1990s. In 2003 Smith announced her retirement from television. However, she returned for an eponymous six-part series airing on the BBC in Spring 2008. The accompanying book, an update of her 1971 best-seller "How to Cheat at Cooking", was published in February 2008, again becoming a best-seller. In 2005, Smith announced that she