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| Bake Off's Nadiya Hussain tells of racist abuse on train | Bake Off's Nadiya Hussain tells of racist abuse on train |
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| Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain has spoken of the racial abuse she received after a passenger on a train refused to sit next to her. | Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain has spoken of the racial abuse she received after a passenger on a train refused to sit next to her. |
| The 31-year-old, who grew up in Luton, said the man had remarked: "I ain't sitting near a Muslim" on a train service on Wednesday. | The 31-year-old, who grew up in Luton, said the man had remarked: "I ain't sitting near a Muslim" on a train service on Wednesday. |
| "His ignorance is his own ruin," she added in her tweet about what happened. | "His ignorance is his own ruin," she added in her tweet about what happened. |
| Hussain has previously spoken about racist abuse and how "it feels like that's become a part of my life now". | |
| "I expect to be shoved or pushed or verbally abused, because it happens, it's happened for years," the mother-of-three told BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs. | "I expect to be shoved or pushed or verbally abused, because it happens, it's happened for years," the mother-of-three told BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs. |
| She won the 2015 series of the hit baking show and has gone on to become a columnist, author and television presenter. | She won the 2015 series of the hit baking show and has gone on to become a columnist, author and television presenter. |
| A contestant from this year's Bake Off, Rav Bansal, replied to Hussain's tweet saying he had recently had a similar experience. | A contestant from this year's Bake Off, Rav Bansal, replied to Hussain's tweet saying he had recently had a similar experience. |
| "You are a much better person then he will ever be," Bansal said. | "You are a much better person then he will ever be," Bansal said. |
| A spokeswoman for Hussain was unable to confirm any further details about the incident. | A spokeswoman for Hussain was unable to confirm any further details about the incident. |