Beloved BBC chef Clarissa Dickson Wright tragically passed away with hardly any money to her name with her remaining possessions being sold at auction to settle debts.

The iconic food expert, who lived in East Lothian at the time of her death, had only £9000 in her bank account when she died in March 2014 at the age of 66, according to reports.

After squandering a £2.8million inheritance during a period of heavy drinking, the Two Fat Ladies star still owed £17,000 to HM Revenue and Customs .

However, her cherished belongings thankfully garnered around £40,000 in auctions with her goddaughter Sara Wain-Heapy inherited £33,000, reports the Daily Record .

Some of the items included a sketch by the chef's artist friend Joseph Oppenheimer, which fetched £300, a gun-cleaning kit, bou

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