Hamza Ahmed Yassin is a Sudanese-born Scottish wildlife cameraman and presenter, known for his role as Ranger Hamza on the children’s television channel CBeebies and his work on shows such as Countryfile and Animal Park, as well as presenting programmes about Scottish wildlife. He is also a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing 2022.
Yassin is best known for the CBeebies show Let’s Go for a Walk, in the role of Ranger Hamza, and he has authored a book based on the series. In late 2020, he presented Scotland: My Life in the Wild, a one-off Channel 4 documentary about his life and the wildlife living on the Ardnamurchan peninsula in the Highlands of Scotland.
In the same year, he presented Scotland: Escape to the Wilderness, a four-part Channel 4 series in which he took four celebrities (Martin Clunes, Baroness Warsi, Ben Miller and Richard Coles) to wild locations around Scotland, showing them the local wildlife. In 2022, he appeared as a contestant on the twentieth series of Strictly Come Dancing.
Where Is Hamza Yassin From?
Sudan.
What Does Hamza Yassin on Strictly Do?
Strictly Come, Dancing contestant, Hamza Yassin was hard to overlook long before he hit the dancefloor, his former university tutor has said.
The wildlife presenter, a former student at Bangor University, won three 10-point scores for his performance with partner Jowita Przystal on Saturday.
Conservation science professor Julia Jones recalls him turning up for a field trip in a tutu and tights.
“He did stand out,” she said.
Hamza, who studied zoology with conservation in Bangor, now works as a CBeebies presenter but still comes back every year to give lectures to conservation practice students in their second year.
“He’s been so generous with his time,” Prof Jones told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.