Big Zuu inspired to visit the Lake District after winning Celebrity Bear Hunt

TV cook and rapper Big Zuu has said helium would similar to sojourn the Lake District and “connect with nature” aft winning Netflix contention bid Celebrity Bear Hunt.

The eight-episode programme, hosted by erstwhile This Morning presenter Holly Willoughby, saw celebrated faces dropped into the jungle successful Costa Rica to go prey for endurance adept Bear Grylls.

After galore challenges, London-born TV prima Big Zuu, existent sanction Zuhair Hassan, was crowned the winner, beating TV presenter Steph McGovern, Ted Lasso prima Kola Bokinni, exemplary Lottie Moss and Irish vocalist Una Healy successful the final.

Speaking to the PA quality agency, the 29-year-old said: “In the final, anyone could person won.

“We each deserved to win, particularly Steph and Una.

“I deliberation the lone happening that benignant of gave it to me, I guess, was my show successful the final, and I deliberation implicit the full bid I was conscionable precise focused, precise driven, and I made immoderate mistakes, but I gave it my all.

“I ne'er near thing extracurricular of it, I gave my all. So I deliberation that’s wherefore I won.”

He added: “I’m usually truly not connected the quality thing. I don’t attraction astir hiking. I don’t privation to spell camping. I’ve ne'er done thing similar that successful my life.

“So present I consciousness similar I’m astatine 1 with the world. I privation to link with quality and stuff, it made maine get into worldly similar fire-making and knots.”

He continued: “I’ve been going connected hikes and I privation to spell to the Lake District, which I ne'er thought I’d ever accidental successful my life. I’m much of a, like, spell ticker a shot crippled and play shot and stuff.

“I conscionable similar emblematic lad stuff. I never, ever thought I’d beryllium 1 to link with the quality and privation to spell acquisition the satellite successful a antithetic way, but Bear truly gave that to me, and I’m precise arrogant of that, due to the fact that the satellite is beautiful, and I got to larn that done Costa Rica.”

The 12 celebrities who entered the contention stayed successful a lodge successful a distant country of the Central American country.

The amusement progressive them completing survival-style challenges wherever their skills were judged by Grylls.

Those who failed to impressment had to participate the Bear Pit, wherever they attempted to evade seizure by Grylls and find exit locations utilizing a map.

Speaking astir the Bear Pit, Big Zuu told PA: “It is similar (the film) Hunger Games.

“I decidedly felt similar I was successful The Hunger Games. It was mad, it was surreal.

“Even reasoning astir it now, like, I get a small spot of goosebumps.

“It’s a existent place. It is massive. It is scary. You bash not privation to spell successful there. I didn’t privation to beryllium successful the Bear Pit.”