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.

She's had to leave the school job, and has obviously struggled as there are no tv shows in the pipeline. It's tricky as she came to fame winning Bake Off rather than having a restaurant. However, I do wonder if she'd gone more down the travelogue route, although that's a bit saturated.

It's true she wrote a book about Islamic cuisine and she was disappointed the BBC didn't seem to take an interest in it. I think the publisher didn't want her promoting it much either.

And she felt in doing so it might have led to her no longer being used by the BBC. I think that's partly where her implications of racism are coming from.

Try buying her cook book? It was published last year and is called:

'Rooza: a journey through Islamic cuisine inspired by Ramadhan and Eid'

What a ridiculous thread title. Last I read she had a new job.

She did a great job on TV while it lasted - I suspect she's right about the racist misogyny though.

She is indeed. Perhaps she saw the writing on the wall, hence the move to America.

She's very pretty actually.

Right. It seems a bit odd if the publisher wouldn't promote it? Sounds a bit counter productive. There are loads of Ramadan cookbooks, you'd think she'd have an edge, though, being well known.

I never watched bake off and she’s the only person I know from it. I thought she was quite refreshing tbh but I don’t think she’s had good career advice and was overly reliant on the BBC which explains why she’s struggling as she clearly felt she was part of it when they just saw her as outsourced talent

if I think of other competition winners - I think she could take advice from Thomasina Myers - she definitely tried to broaden the career and has become a campaigner

She's absolutely stunning. A beautiful woman, and very engaging.

Oh give over, you would have zero clue how many friends she has. Or how much money for that matter.

If you are going to make a post about someone you should, at least, have the decency to spell her name correctly!!

I was coming on to say this too, Nigella’s last full series on the BBC was in 2020 and a Christmas special a couple of years ago. I think YouTube and TikTok have killed off the traditional tv cooking program.

I like Nadiya, I have one of her books but don’t make much from it but I did enjoy her on tv, aside from throwing weird things like spaghetti hoops and wotsits into places they shouldn’t have been.

Indeed. I remember the joke a black male comedian made about 20 years ago about having to wait for Lenny Henry to die. As apparently Britain could only cope with one at a time.

Never seems to apply to white men does it?

When was the last time Nigel Slater had a prime time cooking show? Same with Tom Kerridge although he is on that British cook off show (which I hate)

I cannot abide Marcus Waring either but he is all over the place

I suppose the difference in trained chefs (not sure that includes Nige) is that this is their career. She was a reality TV show contestant who got lucky and good for her, but tons of the bake off contestents didnt have a TV show, they're doing cooky stuff in the background, Nancy Birtwhistle springs to mind for example and who is that one who fronts the junior bake off? Cant remember his name, young man.

But largely, TV and radio and film and music are fickle and often people just have their time and arent seen much any more. Doesnt mean she cant do her job, just not on the telly.

Yes, I wonder if a better agent would have helped?

Tom Kerridge also has a star (two actually), for The Hand and Flowers.

Her actual comments were that she’d had a difficult conversation with producers where she asked that they focus on her recipes not her clothing and appearance, shortly after that she was dropped.

It’s fair enough for her to share that information, that’s her experience.

The daily mail has then gone off on a tangent to slur her and OP and others are buying into it wholeheartedly, which is just sad.

I liked her on Bake Off but I have to admit I haven’t seen any of her TV programmes. I think she’d be good on Loose Women or something. Maybe I’m a Celeb? Don’t suppose any of the Beeb reality shows will be calling her now though.

Gordon Ramsey, Jamie Oliver…

I believe it is very relevant. She came to people's attention at a time when race tensions were very high in the aftermath of the BLM protests, and she was a breath of fresh air in the world of TV cookery.

Her very visible difference, both skin colour and dress, was a big incentive for the BBC to promote her career to improve its own performance in offering opportunities to people of colour. And she could bake too, big bonus.

Muslim cooking. 😂😂

Yes, she could have.

Agree - the last series of hers I watched she just seemed to be putting weird stuff in recipes, to a ‘WTF?!’ level. Another that springs to mind is Wotsits in macaroni cheese, but every recipe just had something ridiculous , unnecessary and unhealthy in.

I gave up on it, and I guess I wasn’t alone.

I'm a white woman with trad English name that is spelt incorrectly 70% of the time. Its not necessarily racist....its just careless. I don't throw my toys out of the pram and have been guilty of a mispelling myself

Charity shops are full of cookery books. Perhaps people just can't afford them any more.
And ingredients.