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The final episode of Great British Bake Off, the nation's favourite show, is almost here and for a past winner, Nadiya Hussain, this is a time for sombre reflection.

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Hussain -- who unfortunately had to witness Mashable UK's decorating skills last year -- tweeted a message which is both sad and defiant about the abuse she had to face after winning the show in 2015.

"I get abuse for merely existing," she wrote with the hashtag #peace. "Too brown to be English. Too Muslim to be British. Too Bengali to eat fish fingers! There is no end!"

"There is no end! I exist, we all do! Sometimes I hate myself for simply breathing the same air, that I am so often told, I am not entitled to.

"Tear away your flesh, you are skeleton underneath like me, like everybody!

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"So let's just breathe our air, let's exist, because what else are we supposed to do?"

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Hussain tweeted after receiving a torrent of abuse on the comment section of the Mail Onlinefor an an article in which she shared some Christmas tips:

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The Bake Off champion is currently co-presenting The Big Family Cooking Showdownwith Zoe Ball, after travelling the country with the BBC's Nadiya British Food Adventure.

Nadiya, who is 32 and grew up in Luton, outside London, has also baked a cake for the Queen's 90th birthday.

Sadly, she received more abuse after her empowering message, including one telling her to "move if you do not like it".

Her reply was, as always, to the point:

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Keep being you, Nadiya.

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