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Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain says she was racially abused by fellow train passenger

TV star says man told her he would not sit beside her because she is a Muslim

Sam Blewett
Thursday 15 December 2016 10:04 EST
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Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain has said she was racially abused by a fellow passenger while travelling on a train.

The baker, raised by Bangladeshi parents in Luton, said a man told her he would not sit beside her because she is a Muslim.

Hussain, 31, has previously said she has to live with racist abuse as "part of my life".

Nadiya Hussein speaks exclusively to The Independent

On Thursday, the mother-of-three tweeted: "A man refused to sit next to me on the train today 'I ain't sitting near a Muslim' he said. His ignorance is his own ruin."

Hussain, who won the 2015 series, said in August that she was "astounded" to be credited with having a positive impact on race relations in the UK because she still suffers anti-Islamic abuse.

On Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, she said: "It sounds really silly (but) it feels like that's become a part of my life now, I expect it.

"I expect to be shoved or pushed or verbally abused, because it happens, it's happened for years."

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