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Nadiya Hussain responds to critics

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PruthePrune · 29/06/2025 09:24

Nadiya Hussain responds to critics

I can understand her being upset that her shows have been axed, apparently ratings were falling, However, I find it hugely disappointing that she has brought race/religion into it. No one is entitled to a BBC show and I think she has had a bloody good run. AIBU?

Nadiya Hussain says she ‘won’t be grateful’ following BBC cooking show axe

Nadiya Hussain has spoken out following the cancellation of her BBC cooking show, delivering a powerful response to critics who told her to be “grateful”. The Great British Bake Off winner has enjoyed a 10-year relationship with the broadcaster followi...

https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/lifestyle/bake-off-nadiya-hussain-cooking-show-axe-b2778744.html

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Thedevilhasfinallycaughtupwithhim · 29/06/2025 10:55

BIWI · 29/06/2025 10:50

… especially the racist ones

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“You should be grateful as a brown, Muslim woman that you got the opportunity” -racist

“You should be grateful to have an opportunity to make a lot of money doing something you love” not racist.

Jellycatspyjamas · 29/06/2025 10:54

On SM she said she was finding it hard and insensitive to make shows about food when millions are starving.

There are millions of people starving at any point in time, she wasn’t so bothered about it during her 10 year tv career. I think sometimes people get a bit of fame and then use that fame as a political platform, and then realise they didn’t have the security or stature they thought they had when they subsequently lose their job.

I imagine race plays its part - how dare an uppity brown woman speak about geopolitical issues and especially when their views don’t match the “establishment”. There’s no need for her to show gratitude beyond the appreciation we all have when skill and luck combine in our favour.

2dogsandabudgie · 29/06/2025 10:53

DaringlyDizzy · 29/06/2025 10:51

She is a sell out!! She didnt speak on Palestine so her ratings crashed as people boycotted. She spoke up too late to try and get the views back but it was too late and her shows were axed. Nothing to do with race, she brang it on herself!

Sorry but it's "brought", past tense of bring.

ExercicenformedeZ · 29/06/2025 10:53

DaringlyDizzy · 29/06/2025 10:51

She is a sell out!! She didnt speak on Palestine so her ratings crashed as people boycotted. She spoke up too late to try and get the views back but it was too late and her shows were axed. Nothing to do with race, she brang it on herself!

Jesus don't be ridiculous. And 'brang' is not a word!!

EleanorReally · 29/06/2025 10:52

Thedevilhasfinallycaughtupwithhim · 29/06/2025 10:42

You mean his death?

He stopped being on TV about 20 years before that.

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he did stop being on tv
his face according to wiki was the face of tate and lyle as well as Flora
he moved to dubai and opened a restaurent.
i guess nadiya could endorse a restaurent.

Figcherry · 29/06/2025 10:51

Imo Nadiya won a baking competition but was only ever an amateur.
When she made that cake for the Queen it was embarrassing how bad it was.
I never watched any of her cookery programmes after seeing that.
I’m pleased she has had some success and no she doesn’t have to be grateful but I don’t think she would have been given her own programmes without her Bake Off fame.

Madhur Jaffrey on the other hand, was a trail blazer.

DaringlyDizzy · 29/06/2025 10:51

She is a sell out!! She didnt speak on Palestine so her ratings crashed as people boycotted. She spoke up too late to try and get the views back but it was too late and her shows were axed. Nothing to do with race, she brang it on herself!

BIWI · 29/06/2025 10:50

Dweetfidilove · 29/06/2025 10:50

Welcome to this side of MN.

Some posters make a sport of intentionally 'missing the point'.

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… especially the racist ones

Dozer · 29/06/2025 10:50

I’d love to see her do more travel shows, with a food element.

Understand wanting to respond to press/people’s criticisms with likely biased underpinnings. And to address perceived unfair treatment from the BBC. But v risky PR and career wise.

Dweetfidilove · 29/06/2025 10:50

ItsUpToYou · 29/06/2025 10:06

I don’t know if some of you are intentionally missing the point or genuinely don’t see it. It’s not about her show being axed - she’s allowed to be upset about it (as anyone would if they had been sacked from work), but that’s not where the race conversation came from. That was clear in Nadiya’s response, in the OP and in several replies that followed. Why are so many of you talking about the “good run” she had? That’s not the topic of discussion. At all.

Welcome to this side of MN.

Some posters make a sport of intentionally 'missing the point'.

Waterweight · 29/06/2025 10:49

I suppose race works both ways. I only "know" of her due to her background & I've only read interviews about her marriage/culture (which is turn has made me like her more on a personal level) - it's a huge appeal of her in a way & would say on a whole has been a benefit for her

But having read some others interpretations of "be grateful" I think I can see it as a patronising thing aswell & yes it's often foisted onto lower classes/poor people so has double negative connotions as well.

Allthegoodnamesarechosen · 29/06/2025 10:47

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Nadiya Hussain responds to critics
ExercicenformedeZ · 29/06/2025 10:45

HappyNewTaxYear · 29/06/2025 10:39

Go and look on any thread on here about social housing!

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That isn't because they are white, though. Do you think that white people should be more entitled to social housing than anyone else?

Coffeeishot · 29/06/2025 10:44

FreezeDriedStrawberries · 29/06/2025 10:42

Yes, I think that's kind of the point that poster was making.....

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Oh i don't understand the "joke" .

Thedevilhasfinallycaughtupwithhim · 29/06/2025 10:44

FreezeDriedStrawberries · 29/06/2025 10:42

Yes, I think that's kind of the point that poster was making.....

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He died in 2019, he was all over our TV in the 90s and then disappeared for 20 years.

There are dozens more examples.

Leo800 · 29/06/2025 10:43

Her ratings were falling. I don’t know anyone who watched her programmes any more. That’s TV for you. Nothing personal. She’s coming across as entitled & unpleasant.

FreezeDriedStrawberries · 29/06/2025 10:42

Coffeeishot · 29/06/2025 10:41

Gary Rhodes is dead what are you on about.

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Yes, I think that's kind of the point that poster was making.....

Thedevilhasfinallycaughtupwithhim · 29/06/2025 10:42

NeverDropYourMooncup · 29/06/2025 10:39

Apart from him being a professional chef with lots of other business interests, have a google and see why Gary Rhodes isn't on TV anymore.

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You mean his death?

He stopped being on TV about 20 years before that.

Coffeeishot · 29/06/2025 10:41

NeverDropYourMooncup · 29/06/2025 10:39

Apart from him being a professional chef with lots of other business interests, have a google and see why Gary Rhodes isn't on TV anymore.

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Gary Rhodes is dead what are you on about.

Fairyliz · 29/06/2025 10:41

I’ve watched that video and she states that she has been treated unfairly but doesn’t say how, I’m assuming she means because her show has been axed?
The problem is tv is very competitive, it’s not like me working in my admin job. So there are probably loads of people who work harder than her and are more talented but will never get a break.
She doesn’t come across very well to me. I can understand her disappointment but I think it’s best aired privately rather than a public winge.

2dogsandabudgie · 29/06/2025 10:40

HappydaysArehere · 29/06/2025 10:36

She went over the top with her anger. She had done well and was fortunate to have the opportunities she has had. Nothing to do with colour. Better to have shown a more balanced and more pleasant presentation of herself. She could have thanked the BBCfor the series she has had and then looked around for other opportunities.

This.

EveryKneeShallBow · 29/06/2025 10:40

ItsUpToYou · 29/06/2025 09:30

She’s bringing race into it because it’s relevant. You won’t understand if you’re white, especially if you’re white and British-born, but others are forever being told to be “grateful” to Britain in a way that you will never be. It’s exhausting and I’m glad she’s telling everyone to fuck off in the politest way possible.

(ETA I also wouldn’t care if she said it in the most impolite way, but I imagine that would have created even more of an outrage…)

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That’s an interesting perspective. Thank you for explaining it to me.

crumpet · 29/06/2025 10:40

LadyKenya · 29/06/2025 09:30

I hear her, and understand what she is saying. Why should she be grateful?

I’d be pretty grateful if I was a housewife, won a competition and got a 10 year tv career out of it. I would also appreciate that I’d worked hard and had a talent, and also that tv schedules change - look at Lorraine for example, who’s been a fixture in tv schedules for donkeys years and has had her show cut to 30 minutes

Ddakji · 29/06/2025 10:39

She right about being expected to feel grateful all the time, but wrong about being treated unfairly. TV and books are businesses. If your sales drop, you go. Nothing unfair about that.

NeverDropYourMooncup · 29/06/2025 10:39

Thedevilhasfinallycaughtupwithhim · 29/06/2025 10:08

This is just the way with TV chefs. They’re huge and then they’re not.
When I was a kid, Gary Rhodes was on EVERYTHING.
There are very, very few who manage to stay at the forefront and that’s usually because they do other things to bring them to the national conscious away from cooking. Food is a fashion and it moves on like fashion icons do.
If it was a race/ religion thing, she wouldn’t have been given the tv shows and book deals in the first place.

Apart from him being a professional chef with lots of other business interests, have a google and see why Gary Rhodes isn't on TV anymore.