Nadiya, who won the competition last year, Wednesday husband Abdal in an arranged marriage when she was just 19 years old. Regardless of all the other things that define me, this is my home.
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Speaking previously, she said: “I’ve had my Islamic wedding that was the most important thing. You are literally on show and it’s something I was always really uncomfortable with”, she continued.
When asked how she reacts, Hussain said: “I feel like there’s a dignity in silence and I think if I retaliate to negativity with negativity, then we’ve evened out”.
Great British Bake Off champion Nadiya Hussain claims her wedding day was “one of the worst days” of her life.
“I was an emotional wreck and I cried through the whole thing”.
Candice, 31, from Bedfordshire, was taught to bake by her beloved Nan, and strives to emulate her bakes aiming to be “even half the lady she was”.
The bakers have a lot to compete with this year after the success of last years victor Nadiya Hussain. She has since been named by Debrett’s as one of the 500 most influential people in the UK.
She said: “I couldn’t get on a bus with them (her two eldest children) because I was so afraid of people looking at me, or people thinking I looked awful, or people judging me and how could she possibly have two children in that space of time?” I never really understood it.
The competition looks set to be more intense than ever this year, with Berry revealing that the new bakers did not bond as quickly as they have done in past series. “I can and I will”.
Berry, 81, said this year’s contestants had not immediately become friends.
“I remember watching that final back and looking around and everyone around me was blubbering – my family, everyone that was watching it with me, they were all crying”.
“Marriage isn’t easy, especially when you don’t know each other very well”.
Among the songs Nadiya chose to take to a desert island were Pachelbel’s Canon, Bob Marley’s No Woman, No Cry and Counting Crows’ Accidentally in Love, songs that remind her of her children, father and husband, respectively.
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The star baker explained that she often finds herself the victim of racism when “massive things” happen in the news. Her chosen luxury item was Marmite.
