OUR COVERING LETTER RE #BakeOffFakeOff – THE GBBO DISPUTE
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BBC/Wall To Wall/C4//SkyStudios Programme makers associated with Love Productions & Ms Nadiya Hussain/AK Management
Next. Collaboration with Nadiya Hussain & her Footwear Edit
The Times – Monthly column by Nadiya Hussain
CC Starlight Children’s Foundation & Water Aid at which Nadiya Hussain is an Ambassador.
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Official Complaint Re GBBO Creators Love Productions
+ Nadiya Hussain & Agent Anne Kibel of AK Management
I am due to be calling this particular battle #BakeOffFakeOff. In the #JusticeForYasmin campaign.
I would appreciate a response. Especially given COP26 has just ended. And to advise you this is a joint complaint that includes the Lovedesh Rana Plaza Victims group.
I’m Yasmin Choudhury, chief executive of award-winning Lovedesh A not for profit, ethical, luxury brand.
On a mission to protect people and planet. Since 2008.
The world’s first not for profit ethical, luxury brand. The only organisation in the world, endorsed by garment workers and victims of Rana Plaza.
Lovedesh has almost been destroyed by the unethical, greedy and corrupt. We are now hanging by a thread. And one of the many culprits are Love Productions. We ask you suspend working with this media company.
I am incandescent with heartbreak, to find that Love Productions has gone on to line its pockets. By being allowed to extend its Great British Bake Off (GBBO) contract with Channel 4.
Announced on November 12, 2021.
https://www.channel4.com/press/news/channel-4-and-love-productions-sign-new-bake-agreement
DISPUTE
LOVE PRODUCTIONS
In 2016, I caught Love Productions copying my original concept and research. They got a lawyer on me. I tried to meet with Miss Nadiya Hussain but I was not allowed.
It is my view, based on factual evidence I posses, that will show Love Productions is a racist, classist, greedy media company, that trampled over and infringed Lovedesh’s moral rights and ripped off my concept for a BBC1 cooking programme in 2016, called “Chronicles of Nadiya“.
Miss Nadiya Hussain
I do not believe she is authentic. I find it odd she waxes at length, of being bullied in media articles and interviews. Yet stood by and allowed a single working mother, with a young child, to get bullied by white media execs. As well as the poorest and most destitute communities we work for.
The disappointment at learning how Ms Nadiya Hussain along with her representatives have hurt and damaged a fellow WOC and vulnerable communities in Bangladesh, is shocking. I feel the British public is being misled.
In infringing our moral rights and more, the three parties involved in this complaint (Love Productions, Ms Nadiya Hussain, AK Management) hurt and damaged the work being done to protect people and planet.
Some of those working with me, were so poor and destitute, they have since died. And never got to see the work they did with me at Lovedesh, recognised.
And why I am furious. Shame on them all.
Lovedesh is a tiny brand. We are a British mother and daughter sustainable design duo. We have been very much under the radar, as we work in the grassroots, on projects relating to human rights and climate change. The scale, magnitude and depth of our work is, I am told, pioneering and world first. All of it is laid out here. Evidence we created the world’s kindest textile and the world’s kindest T-shirt.
In collaboration with some of the world’s poorest.
https://vimeo.com/showcase/8976203
https://www.lovedesh.com/the-lovedesh-tee/
My own daughter Amber Choudhury-Kaye has now been sent away on a sabbatical. To run her own eco design studio To protect her mental health. She is not involved in any of this dispute. Just me. She is 20 and horrified. It has broken her confidence as a young female entrepreneur, and charity worker, who started at the age of 7.
Amber is quite rightly overwhelmed at seeing her mother having to fend off attack after attack on Lovedesh. As am I.
We are both vulnerable and from disadvantaged backgrounds. And survivors of domestic violence, as well as homelessness. And every penny I have scrimped and saved went into building Lovedesh. And have been supported by an array of charities. All of which is on record. On paper. And listed in Lovedesh Hall of Angels.
Those who helped us protect people and planet.
My daughter and I, continue to educate and inspire – for free may I add and under extreme hardship – the youth, on sustainability, in schools and colleges.
We are speakers for tomorrow’s event A “Spotlight on Sustainability & Entrepreneurship” and the #Futures4Students – but having to send emails is simply heartbreaking.
I am also registered as disabled.
I am that rare, business leader who is open about Complex PTSD, an invisible disability, caused by humans. Due to prolonged, repeated often simultaneous bouts of extreme trauma, meted out to the body and brain purely due to personal injury at the hands of humans – hence a disability caused due to social constructs.
THE LONG READ
This is the link that has just been published.
It is a long read. As it is part of a story in my forthcoming memoirs. The Lovedesh 10+ Files.
It contains all the long and detailed email chains of the dispute we have with Love Productions. It reveals the unethical experience I and the poorest communities we support, experienced. And the emails from Richard McKerrow. Which show how he and his colleagues refused to honour the work Lovedesh does and did.
I also cite breach of Section 7 – Fairness of Ofcom guidelines on Fairness. The Right Of Attribution
Sky has a code of conduct – please control your Love Productions, whom you wholly own.
My video will go up shortly probably by the end of tomorrow. As this I feel, is a matter of public interest.
And currently there is a protest banner hanging up, outside the ruins of the Rana Plaza factory collapse, which killed 1,136 garment workers. Supported by the victims. We are all that fed up.
I did everything I could to resolve this privately, but they ghosted me. Or fell silent . That’s how much the disrespect being shown to us, who undertake human rights and sustainability work. And it’s not just them, but so many are at it as well.
If you think such allegations are shocking and bad, wait until you also hear what others have done. The corruption and greed I have encountered from so many in the business, charity and campaign sector, is something that could not equate to even 500 of the most horrific horror movies.
DAMAGES
I operate zero tolerance. And so must you on those who hurt the work done by not for profits.
I am due to be seeking damages on behalf of Lovedesh, for every income ever derived in the past, present and future created by;
– Nadiya Hussain & her agent Anne Kibel of AK Management since 2016
– GBBO creators Love Production since 2016
AND from this day forward, of the time and date stamp this email was issued, Lovedesh ALSO reserves rights to significant damages plus 11.36% of all gross revenue made by anyone and any third party associated with this programme. Or this talent. Or Love Productions.
Be it current and future income. To compensate for financial loss, harm and injury done.
Unless the wrong done – is put right.
And should anyone continue to associate or to earn income (or raise donations) from such talent or Love Productions, after having informed you of our complaint, you will have become complicit in harming and damaging people and planet. And hurting the Rana Plaza Victims.
Channel 4
I am strongly condemning the actions taken by this broadcaster, in renewing Love Production’s contract. In September 2021, C4 were copied into a tweet – that raised concerns about Love Productions.
https://twitter.com/yasminisyasmin/status/1440422956526493702?s=20
Why was it ignored since my Twitter account is verified? Do your social media team not forward tweets that indicate wrongdoing?
But I am fighting back.
In time for Elimination Of Violence Against Women & Girls on the 25th November. Under the banner of #JusticeForYasmin.
When the entire saga will emerge, of what was done, to injure and hurt me, my daughter and all the poorest communities we work with, across the world, to support them. Via my memoirs The Lovedesh 10+ Files and #JusticeForYasmin. The campaign for every single individual and entity featured in the Lovedesh Hall Of Horrors, to do the right thing.
I need to help show the British public proof, that there is little evidence of the high and mighty, who wield power & privilege, in wanting to protect people on planet, unless hubris and money are involved. Otherwise how else to explain what happened to me and Lovedesh?
And I truly hope all of you, will now race to try and help me protect Lovedesh. And show me your moral courage. And leadership. With regards to helping a woman of colour, a single mother, a small business owner get justice and what is due to us at Lovedesh.
And when the high and mighty, or those with deep pockets gather for climate change and human rights summits and conferences, just a reminder. This type of email (and more) will be a record of what those of us, who work with and for next to no money, have to do, in order to continue the work of protecting people and planet by finding sustainable solutions.
Conclusion
I should not have to be doing this.
There is little accountability in today’s media and entertainment world. None. This happened because I am alone, I work at the grassroots.
And Ms Hussain, Anne Kibel of AK Management and Love Productions underestimated me, thinking that because I lack funds, legal prowess, Lovedesh is to be trampled over.
Next.
We have to talk about the rise of the influencer.
And the rush to platform people of colour which also ends up pitting them against those of us who are authentically doing our work.
And why I have gone public. On this David and Goliath battle.
As this is a massive public interest story. At the heart of all this is, structural racism and classism. And quite frankly I’m tired of the performative actions by media companies to show that they are diverse and inclusive.
Enough is enough.
I am looking into reporting all misconduct to OFCOM. But first my complaint has to be issued to all the broadcasters, organisations and charities involved. In promoting and platforming those I am complaining about.
Suspend them.
Lovedesh is fighting for the survival of all its projects and the communities we support. All of which have been damaged simply due to greed, bullying, corruption and more. By the many, many who are powerful and rich.
I may not have huge resources or big corporate lawyers, but I do have “receipts” and the truth. And I know this much, that’s all it comes down to these days, thanks to social media.
I look forward to a reply as to what will be done.
And how to solve this. Fast.
Kind regards
Yasmin Choudhury FRSA
CEO & Founder of Lovedesh®
Ethical Luxury With Heart
On A Mission To Protect Our Planet
Hi, I’m glad someone is taking a stand.
Cannot wait for 25/11/2021
Good luck.
Regards Sulinder