TV cook Nadiya Hussein, who was ditched by the BBC, is whinging that it was racism because she’s Muslim – which is beyond pathetic. She was sacked because her show’s ratings were in the toilet. “I think people just recently twigged I’m Muslim,” says the woman who’s been wearing a head-covering since the day we all first clapped eyes on her on Bake Off so NO we didn’t “just twig”. Doesn’t she understand the diversity-obsessed BBC made her a star after her Bake-Off win precisely because it thought she was a shining example of the success of multiculturalism.

She’s also moaning she got paid less than “the white version of me”. Nadiya needs to accept she’s not a professional chef and doesn’t get paid what they do because she’s nowhere near as good. She was a housewife, albeit a charming one, who got lucky for a while. Now her moment in the spotlight is over and she should be grateful for the many opportunities she was given – which she exploited to the max.

Naga Munchetty’s eaten up with jealousy

The lovely Sally Nugent turned up on BBC Breakfast the other day with a gorgeous new hairstyle. But apparently, the show’s troublesome Naga Munchetty was heard moaning: “We’re meant to be serious journalists not trying to look like we’re presenting This Morning.”

Poor Naga – she thinks that just because she sports an unflattering Cell Block H crewcut it’ll make us take her seriously. It won’t, because it’s hard to take seriously a woman who’s been accused of bullying young interns and making sexually inappropriate remarks to colleagues. Naga’s clearly eaten up with jealousy because, let’s face it, both in the looks and the personality department, she’s not a patch on Sally.

Best we can hope for?

One of the good things about this week is that the weather’s been a bit better. The rain is definitely warmer.

I love Lily Collins – but she’s hardly a once-in-a-lifetime icon

I love Emily in Paris’s Lily Collins, but I can’t believe she’s been chosen to play Audrey Hepburn in a film about the making of Breakfast at Tiffany’s. The only thing she and La Hepburn have in common is their dress size. Yes, Lily’s pretty but there’s pretty, there’s beautiful, and then there are iconic legends who come along once in a lifetime. What made Hepburn beautiful went way beyond her gorgeous face.

When asked once about her beauty secrets, she said: “For lovely lips, speak words of kindness. For beautiful eyes, see the good in others. To stay slim, share your food with the hungry. For gorgeous hair, let a child run their fingers through it daily. Poor Lily – she can’t compete!

I reckon I know the REAL reason behind new Prince Edward book

West End actress Ruthie Henshall is writing a memoir about her “bittersweet” relationship with Prince Edward which went on for years. She says she wanted to write the book because she’d stumbled across a bundle of old diaries and love letters which reminded her of what a precious time in her life it was. I reckon it’s because she’s skint!

Meghan’s not one for advice…

On her unofficial tour of Jordan, Meghan’s considered advice to recovering addicts was: “It’s OK not to be OK.” Is that little nugget really the best she could do? Sounds like it came out of a Christmas cracker.

People offended by Tourette’s outburst are missing the point

Why are all the luvvies and the Lefties getting their knickers in a twist about the fact Tourette’s Sufferer John Davidson shouted the N-Word at the Baftas while Sinners stars Michael B Jordan and Delroy Lindo presented a gong. And what’s with all these people queuing up to say how terribly offended they are?

Yes, it’s a dreadful word. But didn’t all those numpties reaching for the smelling salts after Davidson’s outburst realise they were at the Baftas to celebrate the brilliant film, I Swear, which takes a compassionate look at Tourette’s – a neurological condition over which sufferers have zero control. The whole essence of the disability is that they shout stuff they don’t mean, so for people to be offended by what John said while supposedly celebrating a film based on his life (it won three Baftas) shows they’ve rather missed the point! And are more than a bit thick.

This barbaric practice must end now – help us, Ricky Gervais!

Why are we still allowing barbaric Halal slaughter in this country? I just read some gut-wrenching stuff this week that made me weep – terrified animals being kicked around and abused before having their throats cut without having first been stunned. Some even had their legs chopped off while still alive.

In one area residents complained because of the blood curdling screams of the animals coming from the slaughterhouse. Yet still this government permits this savagery order to pander to Muslims claiming it “respects their right to eat meat in accordance with their religion”.

Well, it damn well shouldn’t. This is a Christian country, animals here have rights too, and no man, no religion should be allowed to impose this kind of barbarity. More than 200 million animals are slaughtered every year without being stunned first and that kind of cruelty can’t ever be justified. What we need is a devoted animal lover like Ricky Gervais to take this on. Come on Ricky HELP STOP THIS!

Retailers are now putting £1.75 bars of chocolate in locked plastic boxes to deter shoplifters. Last year, thieves cost £4.2million in lost goods and extra security measures. Gullible Lefties would have you believe it’s all about food poverty, the cost-of-living crisis and people in desperate need.

Tosh. I grew up in a mining village where people literally didn’t have money to put food on the table, but they’d have chopped their own hands off rather than steal. And bearing in mind it’s alcohol and chocolate that top of the list of stolen goods – people aren’t stealing those because they’re starving.

The 55,000 thefts we see every day are by low life, lazy chancers who’d rather steal than work. And the reason shoplifting is out of control is because cops refuse to take it seriously as a crime. If toerags know there are zero consequences for stealing, then they’ll steal.

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson says five-year-old boys can wear dresses to school. Oh no they can’t – not unless their parents say so.

Phillipson, who is clearly dangerously in thrall to the trans lobby, is labouring under the delusion five-years-olds have the mental capacity to think about changing sex or understand the consequences. They don’t. And even if they think they do its sod all to do with teachers or the Education Secretary. Their job is to put our children on the path to academic excellence, not to brainwash them with nonsense about how there more than 100 genders and they can identify as a snowdrop if they want to.