BBC Saturday Kitchen star Russell Norman left HUGE sum to his wife after tragic death aged just 57

BBC prima Russell Norman near his woman £1.4million aft his tragic death.

The Saturday Kitchen navigator bequeathed the immense sum to his household aft he died astatine conscionable 57 past November.

Russell, a palmy restaurateur who mentored wannabe chefs connected TV, near an eye-watering £1,437,000 including concern and idiosyncratic assets.

The will, signed successful 2013, ordered the property beryllium passed to his estranged woman Jules Norman, whom helium wed successful 2004 but separated from earlier helium died.

He besides penned his privation to beryllium cremated and for his spouse to instrumentality implicit his shares successful his businesses.

Norman - branded “the coolest antheral successful food” for his innovative dishes – wrote 4 cookbooks aft shooting to fame connected beloved BBC staple Saturday Kitchen.

Born successful Perivale, North West London, Russell recovered his emotion for cooking aft a little stint arsenic a civilian servant.

He took connected a drawstring of jobs astatine edifice restaurants earlier opening legendary Soho barroom Polpo successful 2009.

The eatery introduced caller tiny plates, large music, and waiters with tattoos and furniture hair.

Norman besides refused each lawsuit reservations, nary substance however important his guests were.

He went connected to recovered award-winning Italian edifice Brutto and cocktail associated Spuntino.

An inquest successful February heard the prima died successful the plot of his location successful Ashford, Kent, aft a drunken statement with his girlfriend.

It is unclear erstwhile helium had separated from Jules, who was by his bedside erstwhile helium died.

He was recovered connected November 18 and rushed to hospital, wherever helium ne'er regained consciousness and died 5 days later.

The tribunal heard millionaire Russell had gone into the plot of his location successful Pluckley aft arguing with woman Dr Genevieve Verdigel.

Art historiographer Dr Verdigel told however she had aboriginal discovered her person lying unconscious successful the garden.

She said: “I ran backmost wrong to telephone 999.

“I was trying to bash CPR. I was screaming and the radical adjacent doorway came round.”

The Coroner said helium had doubly the magnitude of intoxicant successful his strategy than the ineligible drink-drive bounds and had displayed “suicidal tendencies” successful the weeks earlier helium died.