Heights, and not getting along with people.
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Hamza Yassin
b. 1990
Arts and letters
About
Born in Sudan, Hamza Yassin, 33, came to the UK at the age of eight. He studied zoology with conservation at Bangor University and, after a master’s in photography, became a wildlife cameraman. In 2020, he made his first television appearance, as Ranger Hamza on the CBeebies show Let’s Go for a Walk. He is a BBC regular on Countryfile and Animal Park, and his latest documentary is Hamza’s Birds of Prey. In 2022, he won Strictly Come Dancing. He hosts the podcast Get Birding and his new book is Be a Birder. He is single and lives in the West Highlands.
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Lack of confidence in speaking to the opposite sex.
Not being honest.
Natural, caring, thoughtful.
There’s a tweet somewhere saying, “If you like Africa so much, why don’t you go back there.” It was because I dedicated one of my dances to my three mothers – Mother Africa, Mother Nature and my mother.
Hurtful, hard, like concrete but also the soft, silky, smooth, cool pillow that you lay your head on. It’s like birds singing in the morning with the aurora going over your head at night. That’s love for me.
My last dance with Jowita, my dance partner. It’s been an emotional rollercoaster; she’s taught me so much about myself and I grew as a result. I’m more confident, more understanding, more respectful, more attuned with myself and others, more mentally strong.
Being about nine metres away from a polar bear. In northern Canada, a young polar bear was very intrigued by our food. I was flying the drone at the time and the polar bear looked up and started paying attention, so then we flew the drone further away and he followed it while we got into our vehicles.
Finding a partner.
Stress, love, people not understanding me, me not understanding people.
That life is tough and unfair; that life is beautiful.
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