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

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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.

Do I want an intense debate about patriarchal, sexist and misogynistic understandings/interpretations? No.

I wasn’t aware of that but I still wonder why she didn’t try and merge her interests I suppose

she could be a good children’s cooking teacher - or even kids presenter

I guess her kids must be older teens by now so maybe that’s also influencing her current malaise. I hope she finds a way forward that works for her

Sure we all have ‘ethnic’ names. Try having a lesser used Irish name (complete with síneadh fada) and see how you fare across the world. A cousin of mine simplified her name when living in Italy.

That is just word salad that is fine you don't want to answer me for your own reasons.

Have you ever watched an episode of Traitors? Lots of people have diabolical spelling. Plus Naydia sounds very similar to Nadia which is the spelling most people will be familiar with. I have a reasonably common name that's Scottish is origin and it has many different spellings. Most people spell it wrong, sometimes directly after I have corresponded with them using the correct spelling. I don't assume that people are enraged with me or prejudiced against me when they do this. It's weird to read into this such odd motives.

To be honest I think this is true with a lot of discussion regarding Naydia in general. Realistically she has had a much better innings than most Bake Off winners and probably profited somewhat from being different. Now things aren't going so well, she is blaming her hard times on being different. I'm sure she isn't completely wrong but I do wonder what kind of career she would have had if she has been an older, white woman who had won the show? Instinctively I feel like she would be pretty anonymous by now.

Surely the problem with this question though op is that it's used all the time to gaslight black and brown people into doubting whether something was racist or not.

At the end of the day, I haven't been dealing with the BBC nor have I any idea of what's gone on in the background as I wasn't there. But naydia was. So I think it's quite telling when someone says "what I experienced was racist" and there's a knee jerk reaction to undermine that, especially when you weren't there through the process. That's a subconscious decision that you'd rather trust the BBC over a Muslim woman of colour.

I think naydia is great and really personable on TV and I'd rather watch her than a lot of the other TV chefs. I've made quite a few of her recipes from her cook books and they were really delicious and a bit different to what I'd normally cook or bake with. The idea that you'd tell a woman to be quiet, know her place and move along to make space for others is utterly ridiculous. That would never be said to a man.

I think there's a massive push at the moment against immigration in all forms. People are under significant pressure across the board and previous governments have dealt with that pressure by pointing fingers at minority groups to take the heat off themselves. This translates into media and public viewing. I think it's quite naieve to think it doesn't. And I think it's very telling to call someone entitled and rude for questioning that link when it's affecting their career.

Oh please
I have a dd in london with an irish name. Shes yet to come across someone who can say it correctly and the amount of times shes askes 'whats that in english'. Give me a break.
Youre just looking for shite now.
She had a good run. Its over. Thats all there is too it. End of

FWIW, my phone auto-corrects Nadiya's name to Nadia every time, so it might not be ignorance or laziness. It might just be autocarrot.

I like Nadiya. I think she's fun, engaging and her recipes are tasty. I had noticed the change in style of headwear over the years, I'd assumed it was her choice rather than being production-led. I'm not surprised, she wouldn't be the first woman to have to change herself to fit the public ideal (whatever her ethnic or religious background).

Agree OP.. always thought she got too much airtime anyway

I have a Scandinavian name. It's not difficult to pronounce in English and OK the spelling is odd but it's not difficult either.

Every week I see a different spelling on my work rota. And very few pronounce it right either.

@Bargepole45 .whoops you spelt it wrongly. It's Nadiya.

She got a leg up into the spotlight off the back of bake off
but she run her course not enough interest or following to support a bbc show

being honest she didn’t come across well to me
there’s a list as long as your arm about chefs who pop up then disappear she now one of them

God, I wish I had the confidence to come on the internet and belittle other people for spelling a name wrong, while inferring those other people might be racist for not bothering to spell a name right, all while managing to spell the name wrong myself.

It’s Nadiya, not Naydia.

Also, autocorrect changes Nadiya to Nadia on my phone, so many PP’s might have typed it right and just missed the autocorrect change. It’s very easily done.

I simply used the spelling that the poster who was reprimanding everyone used. Assumed they would know as they were so keen to chastise everyone else. Shows how we can all get it wrong.

Don’t most graduates who want to teach do training to be a teacher, rather than getting experience first as a TA? I think the money has largely gone and she wanted a steady income.

Also it's hilarious to me that so many people on here are saying "go out and get a job" and touting laziness when she's just spoken on her social media about doing training to do work in classrooms and working with children but then having to leave because of challenges with her health.

You are absolutely right. She was treated much better than most-if not all-other winners of a cookery competition.

The spectacle of her trying to say that her 10 year run has come to an end because of racism is laughable. I would say she benefitted from positive discrimination.

If she is able to give examples of previous winners of Bake Off that have done better than her, had a better run, then let her come forward and point to them.

What's that, Nadyia, you can't find any.......shut up then.

Jamie Oliver trained as a chef. He’s not a home cook!

Well, as I know myself as I would like to do this, there are no childrens cooking teachers in schools, you'd have to train as a general teacher and hope to get a school where they still do HE

Childrens TV presenters tend to be very young, wacky types. I cant think of anything worse.

I can imagine her being great with kids.

I wonder if it was over exposure and she peaked too soon? For a while she seemed to be on tv a lot, was featuring in newspapers and magazines and had a new cookbook. I would look at her recipes and a lot of them weren’t particularly original or were just putting some random ingredients together. She went from being good at making and decorating cakes to being a food expert. I think it’s a case of having had her day.

One thing i noticed was that when she was on bake-off she wore her hijab in a dark colour and round her face and neck. When she went to the bbc she had a brighter headscarf, very bright lipstick and it was a bit like a turban so her neck exposed and her hairline. I wondered at the time whether that was done to make her appeal to more people and more importantly how comfortable she was with that. Now her headscarf is more like a headscarf and covers her more.

in the end though surely it comes down to viewing figures. They won’t commission or recommission what’s not popular no matter your sex or colour of your lipstick.

I must admit when I watched her programme I didn’t feel very enthused by what she was making. She doesn’t have a big personality, so the food has to be really something that makes people want to cook. It just wasn’t very exciting.

Many of us struggle to eat reasonably healthily these days, can't afford to waste money on expensive ingredients to make untried recipes or buy expensive cookbooks - quite a lot of us get by with jacket potatoes, omelettes, easy cheap food that always delivers, no waste, no difficult shopping and good comfort food in difficult times.Fanciful cookery books and celebs swanning around the world just don't cut it for most of us anymore.

I was thinking that the only other Bake Off winners that I could remember getting any kind of wider fake was John Whaite. I've just looked him up and apparently he's doing Only Fans now to pay the bills. He's not had a cookery show or book out in years. I think this is more evidence that she actually outperformed every other winner by miles and actually might have benefited from being different.

I really like her and her food but yeah I agree that it seems odd that she strikes out claiming misogyny and racism when she has had such a great career and a MBE. She will always have a place for me due to her superb beetroot pasta recipe
Nadiya's beetroot and feta pasta recipe - BBC Food