The Great British Bake Off’s Nadiya ‘trained’ children to lie
The Great British Bake Off says it is looking for people with “a real passion for baking” and asks applicants to “tell us about yourself”.
The music is getting faster and faster, icing is being frantically piped, someone is fretting next to an oven: the Great British Bake Off is undeniably dramatic.
After 10 weeks and 30 challenges, including Black Forest Gateaux, Spanische Windtorte, Flaounas and a wobbly Charlotte Russe, the 30-year-old stay-at-home mother from Leeds beat fellow finalists Tamal Ray and Ian Cumming to take the crown.
For her final challenge she created the wedding cake she missed out on at her own wedding in Bangladesh, which she decorated in a red, white and blue sari, the colours of the Union Jack. Nadiya came out of the first challenge unscathed after both of her batches impressed the judges.
“I had no idea that this would become a talking point on social media”.
“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. UKTV Ratings tweeted that the figures make the programme the most watched of 2015 so far.
“I was absolutely exhausted before the last two days of filming because I had done so much practice at home”.
“Being a mum to three small children under 10 is pretty time consuming, but I wanted to have my own adventure”.
Now it’s just time for them to walk out of the tent into the arms of their loved ones and the other wonderful bakers that have made this series a massive success.
“Cake making offers an appealing business model especially to mums like me as it allows you to work from home in a very creative industry and, most importantly, to control the hours you work”.
“My husband Abdal’s favourite cake is lemon drizzle, so I decided to make that”. In April this year she announced she was gay on Twitter and also hit back at the trolls who suggested there was chemistry between her and judge Paul Hollywood. “They are very forgiving, lovely and honest with their comments, so when you get a positive comment you know that they mean it”. And she went to great lengths herself too, keeping the trophy hidden until the episode aired.
As well as Mary Berry being one of the nicest people on telly that we just want to have as our grandma, we’re also a bit scared about how they’d react to being called such things. I’ve put a lot into this.
At 17, Yousafzai became the youngest victor of the prize and used her speech to attack governments and say she was proud to represent her country of Pakistan.
She stole the nation’s hearts and reduced Marry Berry to tears so it is any wonder Bake Off’s new champion, Nadiya Hussain, feels utterly exhausted?