Bangladeshi origin Nadiya crowned Great British Bake Off victor

The star baker, who was voted Digital Spy readers’ choice to win before the final, was speaking on The Chris Evans Breakfast Show this morning on BBC Radio 2.

Hussain, who watched the final with her family and “lots of children” told Evans that she’d trained them all to be compulsive liars in order to keep her victory – which was filmed back in June – under wraps.

Viewers last night saw Nadiya explain that she made a wedding cake for her showstopper as she never had one when she married her husband Abdal in Bangladesh. Its stand was decorated in red, white and blue sari material. Bookies’ favourite Nadiya Jamal Hussain carried off the Great British Bake Off prize in a finale watched by an estimated 14 million, producing flawless iced buns, towering mille feuilles and a showstopper lemon wedding cake with marshmallow icing and jewels and flower for decoration.

Mrs Whitehead said: “I am delighted to see Nadiya win she was so lacking in confidence but was flawless in her execution of each challenge tonight – the tears flowed everywhere even Mary Berry was emotional which just shows how much it matters”.

“I had no idea that this would become a talking point on social media”.

Nadiya, 30, from Leeds, said tearfully after winning: “I’m never ever going to put boundaries on myself again”.

And no, it’s not just female solidarity and all that, Nadiya has grown on me over the weeks and shown herself to be a real trooper.

PM David Cameron, passionate about the Bake Off show, had betted on Nadiya, saying she was “very calm under pressure”. She undoubtedly beat the two boys into the ground in this final episode, with her three bakes being pretty much flawless.

She revealed the series six contestants had started their own Bake Off group on the WhatsApp messaging network. “Mary and Paul are the lions and they’re hungry for bakers”.

“What’s really interesting is that we’re actually having a debate about it”, she said.

“I’m never going to say I can not do it”.

“I’ve wanted this for so long and to do it and to have come this far is such a massive achievement”.

“Nadiya is the first British woman who wears a hijab to have occupied such a positive, joyous role in British mass culture”, Charlotte Higgins, chief culture writer for The Guardian daily, wrote ahead of the final.

“But it is still great and I am really looking forward to the final”.

“I am carrying on with my nursing, but would also like to take a patisserie course and get a few kind of qualification working with chocolate”.