UK show’s Sikh contestant racially abused
ki on the not-so-British bake off?’ Really, in 2016?” he questioned on Twitter yesterday alongside an angry-face emoticon.
Fellow contestant Benjamina Ebuehi replied to the tweet, saying “so horrible”. Another baker on this year’s show, Selasi Gbormittah, wrote, “What is happening?”
He is not the first Bake Off contestant to suffer racist abuse. Last year’s winner, 31-year-old Nadiya Hussain, has previously spoken of insults and violence she suffered as a British-Muslim at the hands of strangers. Bansal lives in Kent, south-east England. He is one of the 10 remaining contestants on GBBO this year, and has won fans for his good-natured humour.—PTI
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