Nadiya Hussain has said she initially “struggled” with her identity being so tied to her being a Muslim when she first took part in The Great British Bake Off.
Hussain, 32, told Radio Times magazine: “I certainly didn’t enter a baking show in the hope of representing anyone.
She said: “And I was so shocked by the amount of negative comments I got.”
Hussain, a second-generation British Bangladeshi, she was “really apprehensive at the beginning because of all the aggressive comments” before realising “what a lovely country I live in”.