Nadiya Hussain was born in Luton in 1984. Best known as the 2015 winner of The Great British Bake Off, she is now a BBC television presenter and the author of bestselling cookbooks. She was awarded an MBE in 2020.
Crying hysterically to go home from nursery school. I was manhandled by a teacher and watched my mum cry as she was escorted out.
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