Had Nadiya Hussain down as a quiet, reserved sort? Think again. A few days before her woman&home shoot, the Great British Bake Off star was in a fortified room, smashing things to smithereens. ‘I broke up TVs, a toilet, computers, glass bottles. It was a real release!’ smiles Nadiya, 38, describing her 30 minutes in a ‘rage room’, an experience where people let off steam with a baseball bat.
For the celebrity cook and her husband, Abdal, 41, the evening was their first proper date since Nadiya won GBBO in 2015, when life became a time-starved juggle of book-writing (18 so far, FYI), cooking shows, brand deals, media interviews and parenting their three kids, Musa, 17, Dawud, 16, and Maryam, 13.
‘We used to do date nights regularly a decade ago, but it was always dinners and that got boring,’ she says, revealing the motive for their off-the-wall date.
