From chasing football dreams in the UK to navigating the sweet chaos of Cairo &mdash; content creator Ishaq sat down with Rob and Nadine on The Big Breakfast Show for an exclusive interview that covered it all: the culture shocks, the viral videos, and how Egypt has completely flipped his life upside down &mdash; in the best way possible.
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&ldquo;I was a nobody a few months ago,&rdquo; Ishaq said candidly. &ldquo;Now I walk the streets of Cairo and people recognize me &mdash; it&rsquo;s honestly hard to describe. I feel like a mini celebrity.&rdquo;
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But before the millions of views and luxury car rides, Ishaq&rsquo;s journey started on the pitch. He was training with professional coaches in the UK, pursuing a career in football. That all changed when an unexpected injury forced him to stop. What followed was a period of depression, warehouse jobs, and eventually &mdash; a camera, a backpack, and a solo ticket out of the UK.
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&ldquo;I wanted to travel solo because no one wanted to come with me,&rdquo; he laughed. That leap of faith took him first to Sharm El-Sheikh. &ldquo;It was nice&hellip; but I was craving more than just beaches.&rdquo; So he flew back &mdash; this time to Cairo &mdash; and something shifted. &ldquo;It just absolutely broke everything I knew. In Western cultures, we&rsquo;re so uptight. You have to do things a certain way. Cairo was different. It was chaos, but the good kind.&rdquo;
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His love for Egypt grew fast &mdash; and loud. &ldquo;There&rsquo;s Old Cairo for the history, New Cairo for your day to day,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;And when I first came, I just thought, I&rsquo;m having so much fun&hellip; I have to come back.&rdquo;
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And he did &mdash; twice more.
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By his second visit, Ishaq&rsquo;s content had taken off. &ldquo;I started posting silly little videos and Egyptians were all over the comments &mdash; &lsquo;do this, try that&rsquo; &mdash; I was constantly busy 24/7,&rdquo; he laughed. Talking about Egyptians, Ishaq mentioned "For me literally being in Egypt I make a post about anything&mdash;I mean, I remember one time I posted about a specific place to do a gym video and I had literally two or three hundred messages about that one thing,&nbsp;it's&nbsp;insane!"
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When asked how it all began, Ishaq didn&rsquo;t sugarcoat it. &ldquo;I got injured, fell into depression&hellip; I was working security, warehouse shifts,&rdquo; he shared openly. &ldquo;One day I just thought&mdash;let me take a risk. I started recording, got out of the country&hellip; and here I am.&rdquo; That leap of faith turned into a loyal fanbase of nearly 150,000 followers from across the globe &mdash; and counting.
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Over the past two months alone, his TikTok posts have racked up more than 20 million views, 4.6 million likes and over 150,000 followers. But for Ishaq, it&rsquo;s not just about numbers&mdash;It&rsquo;s about the experience.
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Now, he&rsquo;s diving into long-form vlogs &mdash; covering MMA fights, luxury cars and unexpected local gems. But the travel bug is far from done with him.
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&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve only seen five percent of the North Coast,&rdquo; he admitted. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m saving Alexandria, Luxor and Aswan for next. Thailand is coming up, then Japan. I want to go to places people aren&rsquo;t willing to go. Do things people aren&rsquo;t willing to do.&rdquo;
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And it&rsquo;s not just about the content &mdash; it&rsquo;s about the mindset. &ldquo;I want to transform people&rsquo;s stigma of countries,&rdquo; he told The Big Breakfast Show.
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As for Egypt?
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&ldquo;Egypt is a dessert with many different layers,&rdquo; he continued &ldquo;you eat one slice and you just want more and more and more, and the next thing you know you get too big,&rdquo; he jokingly said. &ldquo;There's so much to eat you can digest so much content, I love the country honestly&mdash;it&rsquo;s amazing!&rdquo;
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And when asked for his top three things that he loves about Egypt, unhesitant he replied:
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&ldquo;The freedom. The people &mdash; even strangers treat you like a friend. And it&rsquo;s safe. Like, way safer than the UK. That genuinely surprised me.&rdquo;
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So what's next? &ldquo;The vlogs are going to go crazy,&rdquo; he said.

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