Nadiya Hussain, winner of The Great British Bake Off in 2015, has it seems reached the end of the road with the BBC. Ten years in prime time is an incredible run; most TV careers are far shorter, and reality show breakouts usually flash by. The Alison Hammonds of the TV world are rare. It’s hard to believe, but even Gemma Collins has lost some of her sparkle.

But Nadiya isn’t happy. In a video on Instagram last June, she spoke about ‘gaslighting’ in the TV industry, and said she felt that ‘as a Muslim woman’, she had not always been supported or allowed to fulfil her potential. Considering how fervently the BBC plugged her, this takes quite some chutzpah. Now she has spoken to the Guardian about how her career dropped off when she released a recipe book aimed at Muslims.

‘It was really interesting, because I felt like people had just twigged, “Oh, she’s a Muslim”, and suddenly I wasn’t palatable any more.’

‘It was really interesting, because I felt like people had just twigged, “Oh, she’s a Muslim”, and suddenly I wasn’t palatable any more.’

She goes on, talking of the TV biz:

‘People always ask me: “Are we doing better? Has it changed?” It’s broken. This last year has been really important for me to realise – to........

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