Nadia - stop moaning and get a job.....

[mids2019]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15628823/Nadiya-Hussain-attack-BBC-cancelled-difficult-conversations.html

I think this woman needs her to realise her star has fallen like a lot of minor celebs. She has had a good run and everything has did was tired. New cookery blood should be allowed a chance.

I thinks it's undignified to start accusing her erstwhile employers of racism.

There are too many cookery programmes across all channels, cheap to produce and fills the schedules but does anyone (like millions ) actually make any of the recipes at home? Not all of us have the 25 ingrediants in the cupborad to put in any of the receipes?

You’re welcome. 😊

What I wasn't aware of until today was that she was made an MBE in the 2020 New Year Honours for "services to broadcasting and the culinary arts". That means she was nominated and approved in 2019. Her first series after GBBO was in 2016. So she got her MBE for just 3.5 years of broadcasting and cookbooks.

Jamie Oliver got his the same time after his first series although his honour was for charity work in training young disadvantaged people to be chefs.

Frankly BOTH were given those far too soon when you see some people who've done far more (whether charitable or in their profession) over the years.

Prue Leith got her OBE 20 years after opening her first restaurant and 14 years after opening her culinary school and her list of achievements in those 14 years is astonishing.

Torn between thinking she’s entitled deluded and likely mental health issues are part of this and victim complex

and she’s perhaps right

I don’t Think she need to get a job though, surely she’s got enough of a following to build some sort of business under her own steam like, with out depending on bbc etc

Though to be fair, Chalky was a lovely dog…..

I think you are right about the marketing mistake element. I love spicy food, so have some Indian books. I don’t think of them as ‘Hindu’, ‘Sikh’ cookbooks. Also, my Italian cookbooks aren’t ‘Christian’ cookbooks.

I have bought Nadiya’s ‘Rooza’ book. I bought it because it contains recipes from right across the world. And I expect it to be of use because although she mentions Ramadan and Eid, there appears to be no similarity with deprivation like with lent, or low calorie diets.

She did wear hijab when she was on GBBO and was often all in black. It was only later that she moved on to colourful turbans and headscarves that were not full hijab, and showing her neck. I guess the black hijab was considered not relatable enough. I suspect now her TV career has stalled and she's blaming it on racism or Islamophobia the more conservative style of dress will resurface.

In fact I've just had a scroll through her insta and she does seem to have gone back to the hijab and covering her neck again in all the photos of the last 18 months or so.

I really like some of her recipes and I think she was a great presenter - always seemed calm, warm and friendly.

It's a shame her show was cut and that she hasn't had the opportunity to pivot to something else in the media.

I think the Ramadan cookbook was pitched badly. I follow a few influencers from the ME who are posting loads of Ramadan recipes at the moment, so there is clearly a market for this. But the BBC doesn't capture that audience (although Nadiya could!) and the viewers they have wouldn't be interested in the recipes from Nadiya's book - which was a few classic recipes from a variety of countries.

i get the impression Nadiya is struggling - moving to become a TA seemed a strange move tbh. I think she needs some support really and I guess she is lashing out at the BBC because she is unsure in her future.

Yes, financially. I think she’s spent those millions.

Nothing to do with colour. Plenty of posters on here can’t even spell Keir Starmer’s name properly, and I’d better not start on about ‘Judy’ Dench…

Nadia said in an interview recently that she’d always wanted to work with children but Bake Off meant she took a different road for a while but now her tv career had finished she’d gone back to what she’d wanted to do previously.

This. Why would you give any thought to the daily mail stirring hate. 🤷

And I think he was quite candid that all everyone was ever interested in was Chalky and the director (wasnt he always arguing with the director?) was always indicating that people wanted Chalky more than him

He was fairly honest about it

But again, he had a very very very long track record of cheffing, restaurant owning and training.

The spelling of Naydia was in the article that the op posted, they were just too enraged to see it and spell her name correctly.

I had to stop watching when she put a bag of Wotsits in a macaroni cheese.

Modesty too, which applies only to women.

Have you seen traditional male clothing in Muslim countries? The men are covered from neck to foot, often with a head covering or hat.

So much ignorance on this thread.

Modesty is for both men and women.

The chefs you mention are award winning professional chefs. I like Nadya but she is a home cook who basically won a reality show. There's only so much mileage in that.

Totally agree. I got into cooking through Claudia Roden's book of Jewish food - never occurred to me I should only use Kosher ingredients to make the recipes.

I did learn a lot about Jewish culture, how to keep kosher should I want to (I didn't) and made some great recipes. Big bonus was that due to the demands of the Sabbath they have lots of prepare ahead recipes which were ideal for someone working long shifts.

On my bookshelf I now have books of Moroccan, Turkish, Palestinian, Afghan, Pakistani recipes. At no point did I think I needed to buy halal to make any of them, they are just great recipes.

Somewhere along the line Nadiya hasn't managed to diversify into social media, different TV channels, a restaurant/cafe, a recipe column, other reality TV... Whether this is because she is badly advised, because she just hasn't wanted to, she misunderstood her relationship with the BBC or she experienced racism we don't know.

Thats fair enough Im not sure why so many posters think its odd.

People lose their jobs in the entertainment business all the time - look at the three that have not had their contract renewed on Strictly. We all know what this is about and it is getting very obvious and very boring.

Yes, I would. But I think these are very country specific rather than religion specific. I can't imagine people in Italy, Botswana or the West Indies buying shed loads of Mary Berry's Christmas book.

I think keen cooks would be more likely to buy a book on a specific country's cooking with the odd 'and at Ramadan we cook this' recipe than a whole book about Ramadan recipes.

But I'm not a keen cook, so I could be wrong.

Yes but I believe it will yield less demand than Christmas based entertainment, I’m not saying it’s not worthwhile but which would you invest your money into hoping for a good return?

Regarding the hijab, I heard her say in an interview that she wasn't brought up to cover her head and shoulders. She grew up in a liberal family (although I'm not sure how that squares with her arranged marriage) and is the only one that wears a headscarf. Apparently she started wearing it in her teens as a kind of reverse rebellion.