Nadiya Hussain responds to critics

It's absolutely fine to be rude to white people @Piggypigalle. We don't count.

So it looks as if we're not going to get any examples of shows being cancelled "all the time" because of racism and misogyny

Shame, because that sounded like something to be very concerned about and I'd have liked more details

I'd also add that in terms of baking, I'd agree with a PP who mentioned Instagram. I've become a huge fan of Jane's Pattisserie - never made a bad cake/cheesecake following her recipes, she goes through it all in simple stages and her website/books are brilliant. In fact, she's got 2 of my daughters into baking. No BBC show needed. Same with Becky Excell - her gluten free cup of tea website is brilliant and I've got 2 of her books for the two coeliac's in the family. People just look for cooking advice in other places to the TV these days.

If you think being on television elevates someone to importance, you are easily impressed.
Celebrity has never impressed me, not one jot.

"Or are you just some unknown, random, white person"
Read that back and consider how rude it is.

Little bigots? Everyone has just pointed out that shows get cancelled, it's nothing personal and yes be grateful for 10yrs on tv.

Oh, I see. There have been extensive pps talking about shiwing gratitude in many different circumstances as proof that racism exists.
But to prove it doesn't, I have to be able to replicate the exact circumstances under discussion? Got it 👍

Why am i bigoted because i don't buy into the rhetoric that everything bad that happens must be due to racism?

Yes imagine if every celeb who had a show axed posted such self indulgent twaddle. It's the nature of telly you're in then you're out. Enjoy it while it lasts.

Exactly 😂 as I said upthread I don’t know why people are bringing up random people as examples. At least use an example of a white celebrity chef if you have one to back your argument or you simply don’t have one.

Or alternatively, it does be cause you say so (with nothing tangible to prove it). Got it 👌

I'm not sure what comment she was responding to, I suppose it is perfect natural to feel upset at losing a high profile bbc show. I liked Rachel Khoo and she had I think one show on the BBC with little Paris kitchen but once they had exhausted that gimmick they dropped her. She still writes and does shows for other channels but in the UK but BBC or C4 are the pinnacle of tv cooking shows I think and everything else is a bit of a come down.

I think Nadiya is fine, I'm not a huge fan of her recipes, I'm a keen cook and a book by her and found many of the recipes had to be adapted so as not to be sickening and I gave the book away. I prefer Anna Jones, Meera Sodha and Rukmini Iyer and would love to see one of these women get a cookery show.

Grateful I guess for being given the opportunity
and it was a good call by the BBC for years. Until it wasn’t so they axed it

Cool…and what tv shows have you headlined? Please let us know the titles of your publications? Or are you just some unknown, random, white person? In which case… What’s your point?

Okay, so in this instance, racism doesn’t exist because you say it doesn’t. Got it👍🏾

God, the little bigots on here. The racism just seeps through your veins doesn't it.

I think, generally, we expect all celebrities and rich people to be grateful.

It’s sort of a basic expectation.

No. No one has said that. But pps are assuming a meaning that was never there so they can get all worked up about perceived racism.

Have people actually said “you’re a brown person so you should be grateful for the opportunity”?

or just that she should be grateful for the opportunity to make a shit ton of money doing something she enjoys?

I saw her post in Instagram and really felt for her. I didn't think she was responding to the bbc, but to poster's who were telling her she should be grateful for the bbc taking her own and giving her work when her contract with them hadn't been renewed.

It was also the second time in a matter of weeks I'd heard that someone should be grateful for something like this. The first was Scandinavia with Simon Reeve, the final episode, and there was a young woman who was born in Denmark I think it was, who's mother, an immigrant from Somalia told her she should be grateful to the country for her opportunity. The daughter was telling her mum, no she was born in Denmark, she is Danish, and she is made to feel like a second class person in her own country. She has never been to Somalia, wasn't born there.
I guess it would be the same as my mum telling me that I should be grateful for the opportunities I have had during my life, even though I was born here. But my mum was born in Germany to Polish parents and she came over as, well, an immigrant as a young teen. I have never been to Poland either, though have been to Germany a couple of times in my life.

I am white and j have also been told to be grateful. Hope that clears up any assumption that only brown skinned people have ever been told to be grateful.
Hth

it is frustrating

What about if a British-born white male Bake Off winner had a 10 year career at the BBC, moaned about it ending and didn't like comments that he should be grateful for a decade of work opportunities? How could he blame it on race? Because “be grateful” comments would be equally valid directed at both.

This! I remember her Jubilee cake on Good Food . Strawberies mixed with cream,etc - super basic recipe, I wouldn't expect this to be on cover.
She definitely had very good management team .

I've never watched her programmes, surprised it's been 10 years. That's good innings for who is basically a home cook.
Would never entertain me, I want to watch the best in their field.

She is a great example of female power and has more to give than the failing BBC. Do your best and go for your future and put the naysayers down to the pits.