Hawzah News Agency (UK) - Nadiya Hussain, a well-known Hijabi baker, who grew up in Britain and has Bangladeshi parents, said that she had suffered Islamophobia as well. The incident took place when she was on a train and a fellow passenger refused to sit next to her because she is Muslim.

She said on Twitter: "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."

Nadiya Hussain is a previous winner of Great British Bake Off

While her appearance on the television competition has been credited with doing "more for race relations than any government initiative", Hussain has previously disclosed that she expects to be on the receiving end of racism in her daily life.

Hussain, who won Bake Off in 2015, admitted in an interview that she has been "shoved, pushed and verbally abused" in Britain.

She said: "It sounds really silly because I feel like that's just become part of my life now. I expect it. Absolutely I expect it.

"I expect to be shoved or pushed or verbally abused because it happens and it's been happening for years."

But she said she chose not to retaliate because "there's a dignity in silence".

"I don't want my children to have a negative attitude to living in the UK. Yes there are those negative people but they're the minority.

"I love being British, I love being here and this is my home. I don't want my kids to grow up with a chip on their shoulder.

"All those things that have happened to me? Hey it happens and it happens to other people too, and we deal with it."

One of the contestants in this year's series of the programme, Rav Bansal, has also spoken out on social media about the racist language that had been directed at him.

He said on Twitter that he had been asked by a stranger whether he was the "P---" on the "not so British bake off".