The end of Delia Smith’s time as a director of Norwich City has been rubber-stamped by the football club’s shareholders.
For more than 25 years, the celebrity chef’s name has been synonymous with the Canaries as a joint majority shareholder alongside her husband, Michael Wynn Jones.
A general meeting was held at Carrow Road on Wednesday evening to allow shareholders to vote on a takeover by Norfolk Holdings, the group led by US businessman Mark Attanasio.
The principal owner of the Milwaukee Brewers baseball team, who co-founded the California-based investment firm Crescent Capital Group, joined the club’s board two years ago after acquiring a minority shareholding.