{"id":39001,"date":"2023-11-02T14:58:58","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T13:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1918114"},"modified":"2023-11-02T15:43:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T14:43:35","slug":"big-zuu-theyve-asked-me-to-do-strictly-before","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/big-zuu-theyve-asked-me-to-do-strictly-before\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Zuu: \u2018They\u2019ve asked me to do Strictly before\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The TV chef talks all about his love of Strictly, why his mum thought he was possessed by the devil and learning Latin with Boris Johnson in a new episode of the Radio Times podcast. <\/p>

By Kelly-Anne Taylor\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Thursday, 02 November 2023 at 13:58 PM<\/p>

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To launch series five of the Radio Times Podcast<\/a>, host Kelly-Anne Taylor is joined by the double BAFTA-winning TV chef Big Zuu.<\/p>\n

Born Zuhair Hassan to a mother from Sierra Leone and a dad from Lebanon, he grew up on the Mozart Estate in West London.<\/p>\n

He started cooking aged nine to, as he says,\u201dhelp around the house\u201d when his mother fell pregnant with his younger brother. It was while he was studying to become a social worker at university that he decided to drop out in pursuit of a full-time music career.<\/p>\n

After making a name for himself as a grime MC\/rapper, he turned the heads of TV commissioners when he started posting videos of himself on social media cooking. That landed him his Dave show Big Zuu\u2019s Big Eats.<\/p>\n

In this episode, Big Zuu talks about his love of Strictly<\/a>, why his mum thought he was possessed by the devil and learning Latin with Boris Johnson.<\/p>\n