{"id":445053,"date":"2026-02-25T16:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T16:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/445053\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T16:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T16:02:11","slug":"bake-offs-nadiya-hussain-admits-its-broken-after-making-difficult-career-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/445053\/","title":{"rendered":"Bake Off’s Nadiya Hussain admits ‘it’s broken’ after making difficult career choice"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain, who rose to fame on the 2015 series, has spoken out about her change of career and experiences of working as a teaching assistant\"Nadiya<\/p>\n

Nadiya Hussain has spoken about her difficult career choice(Image: Getty)<\/p>\n

Winner of the Great British Bake Off Nadiya Hussain<\/a> has spoken out about the television industry and the difficult choice she made to leave her agent and her manager.<\/p>\n

Nadiya, 41, who won the Bake Off in 2015, spoke about the industry just days after it was announced that she was leaving her teaching assistant job, as she continues this next phase of her career.<\/p>\n

Speaking about the matter, she discussed the “overwhelming whiteness of TV and publishing” and admitted she was tired of working in what she described as a broken industry.<\/p>\n

She told the Guardian<\/a>: \u201cIt\u2019s broken. This last year has been really important for me to realise that, really accept that, actually, I can\u2019t fix a broken industry.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nadiya <\/a>also talked about what 2025 was like for her, and how it gave the renowned baker an opportunity to think about the next decade of her life after admitting that she felt like she had \u201cstarted to feel like a caricature of myself\u201d.<\/p>\n

She added: \u201cIt has been really enlightening at the same time. I\u2019ve had the opportunity to sit back and look at how I see the next 10 years\u2026It\u2019s been scary, but I\u2019ve also really enjoyed figuring out what that looks like for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Nadiya Hussain(Image: Getty)<\/p>\n

Last year Nadiya released a cookbook titled \u2018Rooza\u2019, one containing dishes inspired by important elements of the Islamic world<\/a> and culture, including Eid and Ramadan. She also created another volume titled \u2018Nadiya\u2019s Quick Comforts\u2019.<\/p>\n

With her decision to take back control of her career has come new freedoms and new locations, with Nadiya announcing earlier this month that she was leaving her teaching <\/a>assistant job.<\/p>\n

However, in a post on Instagram<\/a>, Nadiya said she was leaving the role because of the negative impact it was having on her health. Nadiya <\/a>has a weakened immune system and lives with fibromyalgia, a chronic condition that causes musculoskeletal pain and fatigue, among other symptoms.<\/p>\n

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Nadiya Hussain(Image: Getty)<\/p>\n

In the social media post, Nadiya explained why she had to leave a job she had been in for only three months: “I’ve always wanted to work with children in younger years as a teaching assistant and I applied for a few jobs, which in itself was difficult for lots or reasons.<\/p>\n

\u201cI applied and got a job as a TA (teaching assistant) at a primary school and I’ve got to say, apart from raising my own children, it was one of the best jobs I’ve ever done.<\/p>\n

\u201cI loved every second of waking up in the morning with a spring in my step for these beautiful children. I just loved every second of doing that job.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut unfortunately doing a job like that as somebody with a weakened immune system it just played havoc with my health\u2026. I was sick all the time and it got to the point where it was affecting my mental health and I just wasn’t performing, giving my best because I was always sick.\u201d<\/p>\n

She added: \u201cBut unfortunately with a weakened immune system working as a TA in a primary school was just proving impossible and it was one of the hardest decisions I had to make to step away for it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain, who rose to fame on the 2015 series, has spoken…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,1398,96,1430,52218,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-445053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-education","tag-entertainment","tag-nadiya-hussain","tag-the-great-british-bake-off","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}