OHMYGOSSIP — Hamza Yassin has revealed that wildlife documentaries are edited to increase sympathy – especially when it comes to baby animals.
The ‘Countryfile’ presenter – who is known as Ranger Hamza for his work on CBeebies – admitted that on occasions nature shows sometimes manipulate the footage shown to heighten the experience for the viewer and add an element of danger that might not have actually been present.
Appearing at the Cheltenham Literary Festival, the 33-year-old television personality said: “The amount of times we’ll film a cheetah family, and she’s got three babies, and we just zoom in slightly and crop out the last baby.
“Then you bring in a lion and the lion goes ‘Grr’ and you think, ‘Oh, the lion’s killed the baby!’
“’And then, five minutes of drama, and we just zoom back out again and then you say, ‘Ah, it’s all a happy story.’
“’No. That didn’t happen. We are dramatizing what we are seeing.”
But Hamza insists the motivation for the edits is well intended because the goal is to get people invested in protecting the natural world and an emotional investment in animals is needed to achieve that.
He added: “I want to tell the truth. I want to say what’s happening in our world.”
In 2022, Hamza was crowned the winner of ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ along with his professional partner Jowita Przystal, 29, but he previously admitted that it has been challenging adapting to being a household name.
He told the Daily Mirror newspaper: “I’m just a normal person and hearing everyone shout my name, I’m still not used to it. “Whenever I get the time I escape to the peace and quiet of the wild. Strictly has raised my profile a thousand times more than I was expecting, I’m using it to the best of my advantage and just trying to show the British public and the world how important mother nature is.”
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