The Big Family Cooking Showdown; Don’t call me Bake Off

Nadiya Hussain introduces the BBC’s big new cooking show tonight. Not surprisingly, all concerned are a bit sensitive about comparisons to previous series, writes Susan Griffin.

THE Big Family Cooking Showdown is being hailed as the new Great British Bake Off but Nadiya Hussain, who co-presents the series with Zoe Ball, is adamant it’s nothing of the sort.

“People think it’s a replacement, they’re saying it’s the new Bake Off but it’s not,” says Hussain, who won The Great British Bake Off in 2015.