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.

Interesting take. Why is it you think that Islamic food doesn't appeal to a wider audience, when French, Italian, Spanish, North American foods do very well here? Any ideas?
Nadia is ace.

That. She has been constantly moaning throughout her career. She had the opportunity of a lifetime, has made a small fortune, but has been constantly negative throughout (and I'm not talking about the racist complaints, she's just been constantly on a downer).

Ten years of her TV series and many books, is pretty good going. Very few TV cooks have had a longer run, so whinging almost daily in multiple interviews, and blaming a natural end to her run, on racism, really isn't a good look.

@Coffeeishot. Jamie Oliver has managed to keep his shows fresh by offering different approaches and also he has his own production company and films on his own property. He even filmed without crew during Covid, they were good uplifting episodes. I find most other chefs too fussy and not keen on Nadia’s recipes, just me maybe but i didn’t like the ones I made

As a woman of colour in a predominantly white industry, with an ethnic name also, it absolutely fucks me off how the majority of you can’t even be arsed to spell her name right even when it’s plain as day in the links your posting.

This site is really just gutter level now.

That's because she isn't in the same league as them but your post did make me smile 😂

Why is a Muslim cookbook only for Muslims? Did you think Jamie's Italian was only for Italians?

Harry Styles? And he didn’t even win, came second!

This is what Nadia does, she’s made it a personality trait.

I read two years ago about her complaining about her mother, that she wasn’t allowed to finish her education. I thought, even if that’s true, why embarrass your mother like that? When clearly there would have been a cultural element to it and not out of spite from the mother- whom she still has a relationship with. That’s the point I checked out from her drivel.

Nadia, the millionaire, has a problem with the world and the people in it and will always seek to blame others for her perceived misfortunes.

She doesn’t strike me as someone who has any friends….for good reason.

I watched her shows and wouldn’t say they were focused on anything except the recipes, suggesting they were about her clothes or lipstick is odd.

The whole concept of TV shows being ‘cancelled’ is incorrect, shows get commissioned for that series, that series is made then a decision is made on whether to make another one, not making another one doesn’t mean it’s been cancelled because very few programmes are ongoing.

The Daily Mail hate the BBC so I’d take everything written with a pinch of salt anyway, I’m sure she’s upset she hasn’t got another series commissioned but lots of presenters move around channels.

She’d be better putting her energy into pitching ideas to other channels, doing this won’t do her any favours with other commissioners if she did decide to go down that route.

Most TV chefs don’t rely solely on the programmes, they have restaurants, other projects like she’s done her cook books, nobody is guaranteed a show without a good concept to make it work.

@KimHwn i imagine since it’s halal and based on the religion and religious practices. Just as a Christian cook book would be tailored. As opposed to referring to a regional cuisine

Jamie Oliver owns his own production company and can quite literally produce his own cooking / travel / campaign shows for which there is clearly an appetite for given the viewing numbers. He also still owns about 30 odd restaurants internationally. He trained under top chefs in top restaurant kitchens. He is a businessman as much as a celebrity chef these days.

Nadiya won a baking show and had a very good run with subsequent cooking shows, book deals and newspaper columns. Previous winners (male or female) have not done nearly as well as her and usually disappear from the limelight six months after their initial success. Financially she has made a few million, she is not 'owed' a living on TV and given how fickle and transient the industry is she (or her agent) should have known this and maybe put some contingency planning in place.

Nadiya has had a fabulous career, more than any other GBBO star and an absolutely great run for someone not trained as a chef too.
She will have dealt with racism and sexism in her career, but I do not think that was the cause of stopping commissioning her shows.
she seems lovely on her shows, but they’ve always lacked a little bit of oomph for me.

I love her too.

I think, right or wrong, the multiple articles and interviews complaining about this won't do her any favours. I can't see the BBC wanting her back now and alternative platforms will be put off too. By burning these bridges she's less likely to be invited on to guest slots, people will see her even less and recovering her TV career will be less likely.

Whose knows if the rejection is racially motivated. it's a factor quite possibly but surely it was mostly a business decision? She was very popular and well liked, and now less so. She must be the most famous/successful bake off winner in terms of post-show TV appearances if not book and monitory success?

The BBC definitely keep on some talent beyond what is deserved, so I can see that would be very frustrating when you actually contribute real skill/charm in comparison but you are the one who was dropped.

Jamie oliver just makes programmes about whatever is on "trend" i mean it works he gets work makes money says "gnarly" like he is some surfer dude not a middle aged man from the SE of England his brand sells because it is what TV companies want to show, which is fine but lets not pretend JO food and recipes are groundbreaking. Nadyia Hussain spoke out about her programme makers worrying about her clothes and lipstick,.women on Tv are held up to a different standard, i am guessing the bbc wanted her to be "more european" to be pleasing to the audiences.

I agree. And why the comparisons with middle age white men?
I like Nadiya, I found her a breath of fresh air.

I think some of you don't distinguish between reality 'stars' and fully trained, established professionals. You can't compare the two. Reality 'stars' are usually promoted very fast before they're replaced by another 'wonder' coming from the same show 6-12 months later. It's a different life cycle. They are promoted intensely to milk their profits in a short space of time. People get sick of them and they get replaced. Professionals tend to have longer careers because, hold that thought, they appear on TV less or in a different capacity. They actually have their own businesses to run which is what got them in TV in the first place. That was extremely competitive to begin with and they don't exactly have guarantees for life either. Many jumped ship between TV channels, evolved into travel shows, wine tasting, judging shows (Bake Off included...). They're not necessarily having their own cooking shows, they've diversified a lot.

Nadiya had offers from other channels, didn't she? She chose not to accept them. I think that's a bad business move. Her brand needed a refresher which she never got and that's the bottom line, I think. To repeat what I said earlier, this does not diminish the fact what she's saying may well be correct - alongside the above.

Agree . This is the problem not her religion or colour

I agree, just let it go is what I think. Your moment in the sun has gone.

How many TV cooks have long careers in that industry? Hardly any. Just the way the cookie crumbles.

Bitterness just isn’t a good look and I’m not surprised she has no agent and manager now, because no decent rep would have advised her to do this interview.

I’m very confused by this post @canisquaeso. Nadiya used the terms Islamic cuisine and Muslims cuisine in her book title and description, so why are you acting as though posters are being racist by saying her book is about Islamic cuisines. THAT IS WHAT NADIYA CALLED IT.

I think it's important for everyone posting here to remember that Nadiya has had serious mental health issues in the past. Please be kind.

Take a quick look at Amazon. Loads of cookery books about Ramadan and Eid. She's hardly radical.

Agreed, Jamie Oliver has also run campaigns like the school dinners one, and one where he trained young chefs, he doesn’t just do TV work but those projects then lend themselves to an interesting topic for a show.

Marcus Wareing is a Michelin star chef, he’s got that angle, Tom Kerridge owns a number of restaurants - most TV chefs don’t just appear on programmes cooking, that’s part of their careers not the only thing.

She did have success though, she made programmes with the BBC.

I imagine anyone who does Islamic cooking is already pretty expert.

What the heck does that mean?

I was just going to say the same thing. I don't think that it's about the Ramadan cookbook, there are loads.
I think she's had problems, had very rapid fame and popularity, and has perhaps struggled to deal with much of it.
She was incredibly popular and successful, but it's a bit of a fickle career. I do feel sorry for her.