As the long summer holidays finally draw to a close and children head back to school, parents across the country are breathing a collective sigh of relief this week. And 2015 Bake Off champion Nadiya Hussain is no different.
Sitting down with us for a chat about her latest cookery series, she laughs as she admits her brood are “a little bit wild” and reveals that she wasn’t prepared for adolescence.
“Teenagers, nobody can quite prepare you for dealing with teenagers,” laughs the mum of sons Musa, 16 this week, and Dawud, 14, as well as daughter Maryam, 11, who she shares with husband Abdal.