Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain set to move house and follow her dream of baking stardom

GREAT British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain is moving house this week to make her baking dream come true.

Nadiya and her husband have sold up to be closer to London as she’s been swamped with offers.

Experts have suggested the mum-of-three could make £1 million after taking the GBBO title.

But distance and family commitments have meant she’s had to put things on hold.

Now, though, Nadiya has told The Sunday Post all that’s set to change.

“When I entered the show I hoped I might be able to carve out a career from baking,” admitted Nadiya, 30.

“My husband Abdal said that if I won we’d put the house up for sale and we did it that same day.

“I’m a bit of a risk-taker and decided we should just do it. Now we’re leaving Leeds and moving to Milton Keynes in a couple of days.

“It’ll mean I’m closer to my family but also just a short commute to London so that if there are any opportunities I don’t miss out.”Nadiya: I was inspired by my husband – click here to read moreThe family she has three youngsters aged nine, eight and four have initially taken a six-month rental on a house just 20 minutes from Nadiya’s mum with a view to buying once the Bake Off bonanza has kicked in.

But Nadiya revealed that such lucrative deals have been put on the back burner until now.

“I’ve had some amazing offers and it’s been really tough because I’ve not been able to say ‘yes, that’s what I’m doing’.

“I have to work around my family and my children. I’m mum during the day, doing the housework and then at 7pm it’s work mode and I do everything else after that.

“Some days I’ve only had three hours’ sleep a night.

“When my mum is close and can do the school runs for me it will be a lot easier for me to make the decisions I’ve been putting off. At the moment I’m sacrificing things because I can’t do them in the middle of the week as I’ve got no one to look after the children.”

Nadiya is on her first-ever visit to Scotland this weekend as the star attraction today at the Cake and Bake Show in Edinburgh.

Flora Shedden on stage at the Cake & Bake Show (Andrew Cawley / DC Thomson)

Fellow Bake Off favourite Flora Shedden, 19, who told us exclusively last week how she was quitting university to write a book, delighted show fans yesterday.

Nadiya brought tears to the eyes of many of the 13 million who tuned into the final with her emotional speech at the end. And she even had Mary Berry crying.

“I was so shocked,” she admits. “People who have worked with Mary for years said they’d never seen her cry.

“But it was such an emotional series for everyone. We really were a blubbering bunch.

“I cried all the time. How they managed to edit me not in tears was amazing. If I did well, I was crying. If I didn’t do well, I was crying.

“One day I didn’t like the dinner at the hotel and I was crying then.”

Nadiya has been in non-stop demand since the series finished, including an invitation to attend the recent Woman of the Year lunch.

“There were so many inspirational women who’d been in the frontline of war zones, had terminal illnesses and lost children,” she adds.

“And there was a 92-year-old woman who had flown Spitfires in the Second World War and just wanted to hug me. She told me that what I had said at the end of the series gave her so much pleasure and that just amazed me.”

The Cake and Bake Show Royal is at the Highland Centre Ingliston today. www.thecakeandbakeshow.co.uk