Nadiya: Did BBC pick me as the ‘token Muslim’?

SHE wowed the judges and viewers of The Great British Bake Off with her beautiful cakes.

But Nadiya Hussain, pictured, who won the TV competition in 2015, wonders whether she was only picked for the show by the BBC to be the ‘token Muslim’. Mrs Hussain said she struggled with being referred to as the ‘30-year-old’ Muslim during the programme as her religion has always been ‘incidental’.

But, despite being subjected to racial abuse, the mother of three said she learned how ‘lovely’ the general British public is with its support of her.

She told Radio Times: ‘I struggled at the beginning, because I thought, “Am I the token Muslim?” I’d never, in all my years, been labelled like that.’

Now 32, she is to present a new BBC show, Nadiya’s British Food Adventure, in the coming weeks.