Hamza Yassin has made it to the 2022 Strictly Come Dancing final alongside dance partner Jowita Przystał.
The Sudanese wildlife cameraman turned TV presenter, 32, has been a fan favourite from day one, with his infectious positivity, strong work ethic and willingness to fully immerse himself into his new dance journey.
As he prepares for his final bid to lift the famous glitterball trophy, we take a look at Hamza's journey and career:
What has Hamza Yassin worked on in TV?
Most will likely know Hamza best from his work on Countryfile as a guest presenter and cameraman, while younger viewers will know him from CBeebies live-action show Let's Go For A Walk.
He also works on Animal Park and has presented programmes about Scottish wildlife.
Who is Hamza partnered with on Strictly?
Hamza Yassin's professional dance partner on the 2022 edition of Strictly Come Dancing is Jowita Przystal, who was this year paired with her first celebrity.
The pair have shone on the dancefloor both in London and Blackpool, with their incendiary salsa in week four landing them the highest score of the series at that point, while a later cha cha cha was described as "one of the best" that head judge Shirley Ballas had ever seen.
Their sizzling salsa was made all the impressive by the fact that Hamza was poorly that week. “Jowita actually sent me home for two days so we learned the whole dance in two days," he previously said. "The thing about that dance, what makes it cool, is the trust she has in me. I’m chucking her up in the air. If she lands in the wrong way, game over.”
Rugby, fitness and weight loss
Former rugby player Hamza reckons the sport has come in handy for his transition to the dancefloor.
When asked whether he had dropped Jowita while learning the salsa, he said: "No! Luckily. I came close. I think it’s from the days of chucking people up in lineouts in rugby, and also tossing the caber in Scotland, which is really good fun."
Hamza has lost almost 8.5kg/1.3stone after training nine hours a day during his glitterball-chasing journey so far.
Speaking early on in the competition about how he hoped Strictly would improve his fitness, he said: "My biggest challenge will be my weight and my fitness, I’m a big dude and I think I’m strong but imagine me like a rhino where I can have a short burst of energy and then I’m knackered afterwards.
“So I don’t want to be a rhino, I want to be a dolphin that’s constantly moving through water that can go for hours and hours. I want to be the fittest that I’ve ever been in my life. I’m an ex rugby player. What we do in rugby is completely different to what you do on the dance floor, but I reckon a lot of it will transfer.”
Up in Scotland, the fit Hamza has become the local log-chopper, with his village getting 25 tonnes delivered a year.
Why Hamza Yassin doesn't cut his hair
Hamza's hair, which measures almost down to his ankles, often sways elegantly as he moves, and he has openly revealed why he doesn't cut it.
Speaking about his hair on This Morning, he previously divulged that he has refused to have it cut for the past 17 years. He said: "I remember, my mum used to sit me down, me, my brother and my dad, and just give us the number two the whole time. I just rebelled one year, I'm like, 'I'm done'. And that was it!"
He has had to have the odd trim due to his work as a wildlife cameraman, though.
"There's been bits that have [been] trimmed because I was in the Arctic and it dipped in a bit of engine oil so it'll get snipped off every now and then. My hair is part of me and Jowita's nice enough to put up with it in training."
Hamza's life in rural Scotland and living in his car
When a university pal invited Hamza to Ardnamurchan, a peninsula on Scotland's west coast, on a family holiday with the promise of seeing stags close enough to photograph, he fell in love with the place.
So much so, Hamza returned two weeks later to relocate and has lived there for the past 12 years.
He had spent the first week convincing his parents he wanted to move there, and the second week packing his car, which he lived in for nine months, in a car park by the pier.
Aged 21, he used to shower at the local campsite, eat at the pub and wash his clothes at the local community centre, before progressing to staying in empty holiday homes for a few years and then buying his own home thanks to the success of his photography and guided tours.
It came after Hamza had studied zoology with conservation at Bangor University and then completed a master's in biological photography and imaging at the University of Nottingham.
Moving from Sudan to the UK
Born in Sudan in 1990, Hamza spent part of his childhood in the capital Khartoum. He lived in a huge house overseen by his grandmother, who had her seven children also living there in their own sections of the home.
Hamza lived with his parents, both doctors, and his brother and sister. He grew up close to wildlife and could see the Nile from the top of the house, where he could spot crocodiles or hippos if he was lucky.
Aged eight, Hamza moved to the UK six months after his parents, settling first in Newcastle upon Tyne and then Northampton. He quickly learned English, partly through watching David Attenborough documentaries, but mostly at school.
Diagnosed with dyslexia as a teenager, Hamza was put off following his parents into the medical profession or emulating his brother to become a dentist by the hefty textbooks.
