Big Zuu: Rediscovering Faith as a Grime Artist | GREAT MOMENTS
Great Company with Jamie Laing
Jampot
4.6 • 951 Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Faith is a deeply personal thing and, for many of us, our relationship with it changes over time. Some people drift away from it, some come back to it, and others are still figuring out what it means to them. It’s a journey that’s rarely a straight line.
Big Zuu knows that better than most. Over the years, he has struggled to work out what being a Muslim means to him.
In this Great Moment, the BAFTA-winning TV chef and Grime artist opens up about reconnecting with his faith, how the process has shaped him and how he's found a way to balance two loves of his life: his music and his religion.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone, I'm Jamie Lang and this is Great Moments. |
| 0:09.1 | Hey guys, hope you're well. I'm very excited for today's great moment with this absolute |
| 0:14.5 | legend, Big Zoo. He's a TV presenter who first burst onto our screens in 2019 with Big Zoo's Big Eats, and he's been serving up Big Energy ever since. Now, he was a joy to have on the show, and I think you're really going to enjoy this great moment with him. So if you like this episode, remember to go and click on the show notes, and you can click on the full episode, and there are so many more interviews that you probably haven't listened to yet. So go and check it out. Okay, here it is, our great moments with Big Zoo. To everyone, your name is Big Zoo. Yes, Big Zoo. But what's your Christian name? My real name. What's your real name? So my real name is Zahar. Yeah? Zahar. |
| 0:54.4 | But my teachers could pronounce it, so they call me Zuhair. |
| 0:57.1 | So they call me Zuh. I was like, you know what? It's called me Zuh. Really? Yeah. But my real name is Zahir Hassan. Zahir Hassan. But I'm named after my dad. Are you? I'm a junior. |
| 1:09.8 | Zahar San Jr. |
| 1:12.0 | So, and this is, because your story, Are you? I'm a junior. Zahar San Jr. Mm-hmm. |
| 1:11.6 | So, and this is, because your story, by the way, I was just like, I was checking out everything. |
| 1:16.6 | It's insane, man. |
| 1:17.6 | Because your mom left, well, forgive me, I get this from Sarah Leone, when she was four months pregnant with you. |
| 1:25.6 | Yes. |
| 1:26.6 | Fleed to the UK and brought you up in the UK |
| 1:31.4 | with no money, not be able to speak English, not be able to write, read anything, but then was this |
| 1:38.4 | an unbelievable, powerful, strong mum. Yeah. That is wild. It's mad still. She loves it. She loves it. She loves her story. |
| 1:47.8 | I feel like my mom, my mom was just a powerful woman and she comes from a very, very, like, mad upbringing. |
| 1:55.0 | My mom's one of 14, like, crazy family that just comes |
| 2:01.1 | like Sierra Leone before the war |
| 2:02.7 | was a beautiful place |
| 2:03.8 | and you know the people |
| 2:05.5 | the people are amazing people |
| 2:06.9 | but the war definitely |
| 2:07.8 | hurt them in a lot of ways |
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