Star of The Great British Bake Off, Nadiya Hussain said she still expects to be shoved and insulted, because racist abuse “has become part of my life”. Speaking on Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs the 31 year old, mother of three said she suffered anti-muslim bigotry over many years, revelling she received abuse after “massive things” which happened, from September 11, 2001 onwards.
She said “I’ve had things thrown at me and have been pushed and shoved. It sounds really silly…it feels like that’s become a part of my life now, I expect it. I expect to be shoved or pushed or verbally abused because it happens.- its happened for years’s.” She says the abuse has made her more determined to be a role model to her children.
Some 15 million people watched her win the baking show on BBC last year.