Good evening, welcome to the BBC news at six.
After days of intense pressure and public anger
over the phone hacking scandal,
the News of the World, the country’s biggest selling newspaper
has said that this Sunday's edition will be its last.
Police investigating allegations of phone hacking
said they were working through a list of 4,000 potential victims.
I feel so appalled by what has happened.
Murder victims, terrorist victims who’ve had their phones hacked
is quite disgraceful.
Arrests followed, with editors, executives and journalists
all implicated in the scandal.
Everybody came after us.
Although we’d done great stuff and put a lot of baddies away,
we just became the villains of the piece.
It's morally bankrupt, totally, and you are morally bankrupt.
The whole notion of press freedom is a smokescreen
for selling newspapers with tittle-tattle,
and you hide behind this whenever it comes up, it’s absolute B.S.
This was the scene in Wapping last night
as the staff bid goodbye to their newspaper and their jobs.
I remember hearing that the News of the World had closed down
and I was so pleased, I was so pleased to see the back of it.
I actually visualised the News of the World’s news desks,
the empty chairs and the vacated desks,
and I just thought, brilliant.
I thought that would be the end of Mazher Mahmood,
but it wasn’t.
The trial of Mazher Mahmood, the journalist known as the Fake Sheikh,
has opened at the Old Bailey.
It was so unbelievable, it was believable.
You know, this can’t be fake.
For 30 years he has revelled in hiding his identity.
His anonymity, his secrecy was the key to his entire act.
The self-styled King of the Sting,
turning up to court every day beneath a balaclava.
I think he was ruthless, dishonest, and a merciless individual.
Mazher Mahmood has been behind some huge tabloid scoops,
things like uncovering match fixing in Pakistani cricket,
and a plan to kidnap Victoria Beckham.
Maz played on this caricature
that money literally could be no object and if you got close,
you could grab your share of it.
I hate to say it, but he’s very, very, very good at what he does.
The Sun on Sunday will publish for the first time next weekend.
It follows the closure of the News of the World last July,
in the wake of the phone hacking scandal.
Rupert Murdoch didn’t like the idea that he wasn’t going to have
a Sunday newspaper because he still believed
there was a big market
and that’s how the idea of the Sun on Sunday was born
with the idea that it had to be untainted by the News of the World
The first edition of the Sunday Sun, how about that.
Mazher had the reputation of being a journalistic born survivor,
he was never charged with phone hacking, or linked directly to phone hacking
so he was given a birth on the Sun on Sunday.
I think when the News of the World closed,
there was definitely a seismic shift in terms of how people perceived the press
and there was less tolerance for shenanigans
and journalists had to be more careful,
only I don’t think Mazher Mahmood got that memo.
In the Sun, he was trying to re-establish himself
as the King of the Sting,
He wanted to put his stamp on. This is me, I’m back,
look and weep.
When Mazher joined the Sun on Sunday
I think there would have been a lot of pressure
to secure a big story fast
because he was constantly on a mission to prove himself
and you are only as good as your last story
and in his case, all his stories were big,
so he had to come up with a bigger one.
Tulisa was a popstar.
She was a TV personality
and people knew her because she was a judge on the X Factor.
She was on our screens every Saturday night,
prime time television.
I thought she was great, and my daughter did and still does like N-Dubz,
as do I.
But show business can be cutthroat.
Tulisa confirmed the wildly unexpected news
that she is leaving the X Factor.
Morning, Tulisa.
Sadly for Tulisa she’d just left the X Factor,
which almost certainly made her vulnerable and an ideal sting target.
I was approached by these two “film producers.”
They wanted me for this massive lead role
in a Bollywood slash Hollywood production.
All in all, I was offered 3 to 3.5 mil.
I’m thinking “Wow this is a dream come true.”
Maz was a terrific newspaper investigative reporter.
What his skill was would be to see a situation,
work out how to get to it
and quite quickly set up a path
to then bring it all together.
His Fake Sheikh days were over
because people did know about him, they’d read about him,
so he had to change who he was
and he became a high-flying Bollywood producer.
When I saw the footage, it was very clear to me
that this was a typical sting.
Everything was meticulously planned even to the point where she was sitting
was in exact view of where his secret camera was set up.
Ok the story outline very briefly is that we want an English girl,
- Kind of a... from humble... - Are we talking posh British or...
No.
To get what he wanted, he had to reflect the desires
of the person that’s sitting in front of him.
He was incredibly convincing.
He got her tipsy,
he offered her the world,
and the footage shows that she was excited about it.
- We want a kind of a... - I can do cockney.
Someone who comes from kind of a very low background
- Perfect! - Before that...
Ta-da!
Mazher Mahmood was a little bit stuck
because she’d not done anything illegal, she’d not taken drugs
but Mazher was a dog with a bone and he would find a way
to get the story by hook or by crook.
Nothing fazed him. If a good story was a good story,
he would go for it and not be put off
just because it seemed difficult
and he was determined.
He left it a week or two, contacted her
and asked her if she knew anyone who could supply him with drugs.
Now she wanted to impress him, she wanted the work.
Tulisa said she’d reached out to a contact
and told them to pretend they were able to get Maz drugs
so she would appear streetwise.
But that person actually did end up supplying Maz with cocaine
and that was enough for the story.
My life is ruined, it’s over.
I just want my life back.
They’ve ruined me.
This would never have happened unless they created the situation.
They made it happen.
This would never have happened unless they made it happen.
They made it happen!
The singer and former X-factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos
has appeared in court to face drug offence charges.
Tulisa had to make her way past a crowd
of photographers, news crews and reporters,
making her way to courtroom number one.
She faces a charge of being concerned in the supply of Class A drugs
to an undercover reporter.
We’re going to make a short statement on behalf of Tulisa.
Tulisa’s been charged with a serious criminal offence,
to which today, she’s pleaded not guilty.
As has been widely reported, this entire case
has been manufactured by Mazher Mahmood,
sometimes known as the Fake Sheikh.
Tulisa is the latest in a long line of people
who have been treated as fodder by greedy newspapers.
I remember reading the Tulisa story
and I thought, this is exactly what we did.
There’s no difference, it’s exactly the same as what Mahmood did
to Emma Morgan.
The story’s the same.
The splash was "Page 3 Girl’s Drug Shame."
When I saw the article about Tulisa,
I knew exactly what had gone on, I looked at the byline and of course,
there he was Mazher Mahmood, up to his old tricks.
I wanted to shout out and say, he’s done that to me as well
many many years before, the details were slightly different,
but the way in which he had gone about it
was exactly the same.
What I have noticed with Mazher’s stings
is that although his victims can be very very different,
he still used the same blueprint,
he still sold them the dream, he gave them what they wanted.
He dangled the biggest carrot ever,
knowing they were going to reach for that carrot
and that’s how he brought them down.
I fell for the Fake Sheikh’s bullshit
because I was offered an opportunity of a lifetime.
We flew to Lanzarote.
It was a really, really big calendar shoot.
He said that I'd be getting paid far more money than I had ever been paid
on any job before.
But he asked me if I could get him some cocaine.
I was duped, I was encouraged so much,
I honestly thought if I had said no,
it could have cost me the job.
He asked me if I could get some cocaine for him
from this guy called Billy.
Billy is buying the cocaine and we’re paying him.
Because Mazher Mahmood paid him from the expenses.
"What about if we put that in the paper? What a joke!
"It’s okay. We bought the coke for her!
"That’s a good idea."
We bought the coke, we give it to her.
Billy gets paid, everybody gets paid, she gets ruined.
He halted my career just as it was about to blow up.
I never recovered from it.
And I just cried and cried and cried
and I was just so scared about what my mum and dad would think.
I remember... Sorry.
I remember calling and I spoke to my dad
and he just said, "Do you need help?"
"Have you got a drugs problem?
"because we'll get you sorted, we'll get you to rehab."
And he was really worried about me and I said no.
He said, you can tell me the truth,
and I remember thinking, even my dad believes it.
And then after that everything just, everything just went to shit.
In the end I got sacked
over another story and fell out with Maz,
but I felt bad for Emma.
You know, I really did feel bad.
It’s OK feeling bad but I done it.
But I did feel bad.
If my own dad is wondering whether or not it’s true,
you know, how is my voice ever going to be louder
than the voice of the News of the World?
I can’t shout as loud as the 6 million people who are going to read about me.
He would have had me slung in jail if he could,
just thankfully it was in Spain so it was out of our jurisdiction.
Had this been in London, maybe I’d have been up in court as well.
A court in London has told the singer Tulisa Contostavlos
that she will go on trial in July to face a charge of supplying drugs.
I’d become aware of Tulisa Contostavlos being arrested,
and I’d followed that story.
I was actually a fan of N-Dubz,
and my children were young at the time, we all used to watch the X Factor
avidly on a Saturday night.
And then, low and behold my clerk got a call from Tulisa’s manager.
So, it was all a bit intimidating for me,
I was very nervous about meeting her, actually.
You were set up and entrapped.
Entrapment is not a defence to a criminal charge.
But a judge is entitled to stop the proceedings,
if he or she feels that this was crime manufactured by Mahmood.
Obviously we’ll be drawing from the facts of your case,
the whole business of the carrot of the 3.5 million,
the carrot of the major part in the film, that you were lured.
No matter what the size of the carrot,
you cannot entrap people into committing these crimes,
however the public perception is that’s because they’ve offered a huge carrot.
That is resulting in the crimes taking place.
I wanted to do the case, as any, you know, professional would.
It was, you know, an exciting prospect.
But it was also, you know, incredibly worrying,
because he did seem to be unstoppable.
We researched Mahmood’s old cases before the Tulisa case
and the view I formed is that this was a journalist
whose working practices could not be trusted.
The defendants had been lured in by inducement
by Mahmood and his cohorts.
They’re actually creating and generating the crime
that they would later be heard to say was in the public interest to prosecute.
Public interest is, for me, is moral wrongdoing, obviously criminal acts,
hypocrisy, you know, the public being deceived.
All 500 of my investigations that I’ve done, all 500 of them,
fulfil the criteria in my view that they satisfy the public interest.
When Maz landed those huge mega scoops
then the papers would fly off the shelves.
Maz delivered constantly, he was hugely valued.
But he needed someone to watch him,
to stop him getting out of control because he was so focused,
he developed a kind of tunnel vision.
And all that mattered was winning that next great scoop.
In Tulisa's case we had a pre-trial hearing,
arguing that the case should not be permitted to proceed.
So, we were arguing that the behaviour of Mahmood was unconscionable,
that evidence had been gathered in a background of lies, deceits
and falsity.
Their justification for the sting
was that they claimed they had information
that Tulisa Contostavlos was a drugs dealer.
We wanted to see the information and/or be told
who it was that provided that information.
And we got nothing.
So, a lot of the Tulisa case was wrapped up in alleged, journalistic privilege.
It was definitely a case of David and Goliath, for sure.
And there were times when it seemed overwhelming, yeah.
One of the nights during, I actually slept in my chair in my chambers.
Worked until about 4 or 5 in the morning and just went to sleep for an hour,
I think I went out and bought a new shirt actually and went to court.
You know, we knew we were up against it in the legal arguments hearing.
He would put in more effort,
and I know this from first-hand experience,
he'd put in more effort into the preparation for a court case
than he would into the original story.
Because the conviction effectively validated his journalism.
Mahmood and his group,
they were as uncooperative as they could possibly be.
We were desperately trying to take a statement from a very important witness,
Mahmood’s driver Alan Smith,
and they stood in our way.
Just after the main meeting between Tulisa and Mahmood,
Tulisa was offered a chauffeur driven car home with Alan Smith as the driver.
And she was talking about family members being affected by drugs
and explaining that’s why she was so anti-drugs.
Alan Smith clearly overheard what she was saying.
And then we, having so bitterly complained about that,
they obviously gave in and just took a statement from him.
In which Smith said that Tulisa spoke against drugs,
in the car, coming back from the Metropolitan Hotel.
So, obviously this was, you know, an incredible moment.
We’ve now got a statement in which her case was supported.
So I thought, this was gold dust.
But within 24 hours, Alan Smith changed that part of his statement.
The judge was just told that Alan Smith had made a mistake.
Well obviously, we complained even more bitterly about that,
but the judge’s standpoint on that was, well, that’s what the witness has said.
These are all matters for the jury to consider in due course.
And it was left at that.
I remember saying to myself, how am I going to turn this around,
I don’t know how I’m going to turn this around.
I’m scared for myself, I’m scared for myself.
The whole experience of arriving at court, the trial
was ten out of ten anxiety, tension, stress, you know, trauma.
There's no question about that.
This was a really difficult case to win.
The prosecutor’s key arguments were very simply put.
She’d been exposed as a drugs dealer. She had spoken in very clear terms
of her willingness to supply drugs
and that she had set up a drugs deal which went through
and that Mazher Mahmood was a very experienced investigative journalist
who had exposed this and it was in the public interest that this should happen.
Tulisa was definitely facing a prison sentence
between 18 months and three years.
And as we got into the trial, things weren’t looking good.
We went into a room at Southwark Crown Court,
and it was the first time where I saw her cracking up.
She was crying, she was very very distressed,
and basically saying, “The judge is against us, we’re going to lose,
I’m going to prison, we’re not getting anywhere, it’s a waste of time.”
Here was someone whose whole life was on the brink of collapsing.
And, I remember thinking, well actually I agree with you.
I actually think we are going to lose.
I didn’t say that, but it was difficult for me to pretend otherwise.
When I heard about Tulisa,
the pain, that I knew that she would be going through,
the frustration, the betrayal, all of those things
definitely kind of came back up again,
of just another person that’s, that’s a victim of this man.
When I saw the article for the first time,
it was like total, kind of panic
that I could have been so stupid.
That I fell into a trap.
You know, of course, there is a point where I made that phone call,
but I know what they did, and I know how they led me into these conversations.
I know how they manipulated things.
You know, I know the depths of where they went.
About 2007 I was a successful model
and I was 26-27 years old.
And my brother Jack, he was a professional polo player
and I remember him saying
“I’ve been approached by this very very wealthy Sheikh
that lived in Dubai."
They had months and months of meetings with Jack.
Jack then says “Look he wants to put on this event,
"and he wants to do a polo and a fashion event,
"and he would really love you to come on and to be an advisor
"on the fashion front, maybe do a fashion show,
"get some of your friends along and designers."
And he’s like “please do it’ and I said “fine.”
So, I went up to London,
got dropped off on Park Lane, outside of this apartment building.
We were greeted by the Sheikh’s right-hand man,
you know, he’ll be the one that will be organising everything.
And then, the Sheikh walked in and, you know, looks very regal.
And then they said “Right, we’ll have some food.”
So, through the meal he is talking about that,
you know, they’re going to be putting millions into this event,
and let's talk about dates, so it’s really positive, kind of,
really fun, like, my goodness this is gonna be great.
And another glass of wine comes, and we start chatting,
and it starts becoming a much more relaxed chat.
His right hand man starts going into, the Sheikh, “He loves to party,
"Do you guys know anything about drugs?”
Which I thought was a bit weird, but you don’t ask too many questions,
especially if you’re from a different country,
they have different ways, different manners,
so you know all those little kind of moments
when you go “that’s a bit odd” you think it got lost in translation along the way.
And they started asking about getting them drugs.
So I was like, God. You know this guy is about to change, certainly Jack’s life,
but you know, create a nice new business,
we’re all going to make some money.
I just felt incredible pressure.
We were trying to rack our brains for someone who knew someone
that knew somebody.
And so I made a phone call.
That’s all I did.
But it was the biggest mistake of my life.
The saddest thing is, you know it destroyed our family.
I still haven't got a relationship with my brother because of it.
Because for me, it’s been too painful.
I have anger, my trust went completely out the window.
I didn’t trust anyone.
So it’s had huge, huge negative effects.
I had the most awful phone calls with the heads of these huge companies
that I was the face for, going, "We’ve got to rip up the contract."
So, that was a very painful moment,
and just seeing kind of your whole, kind of career, just disappear.
Sorry...
Terrible.
But you know, you’d worked so hard to build these relationships
and these careers, my career,
just for, just for a stupid moment
that you were completely kind of groomed and manipulated to make.
It took years and years and years and years
to recover my career.
Emotionally, as you can see, it still hasn’t.
But all of those years of tears and pain
and anger because of this man.
If you are going to be a celebrity in the public eye,
the public have a right to expect certain morals from you,
a certain standard, certain codes from you.
We don’t ruin their lives, they ruin their own lives.
I get that repeatedly, "You've destroyed my life."
I tell people, look I've not destroyed your life
You've destroyed your own life.
You made these choices.
He was very denigrating of celebs.
He didn’t feel a lot of them deserved to be where they were, in the public eye.
The bigger they are the harder they fall, that was his sort of belief
when he was tackling these stories.
Let’s go for the biggest that we can get and there you see,
royalty, big celebs, politicians,
you know, all fair game to him.
He revelled in that.
I’m a journalist, that’s what we do, we publish stories, we sell newspapers,
that’s what we do,
I’m not a police officer, I’m not a social worker, I’m a journalist.
So...
here I am again.
I actually just don’t even know what to say anymore.
I’m filming this because
I’m so sick of people not knowing what is really going on.
I really just want it all to end.
I don’t want to be this person anymore, I don’t want to be famous anymore
Focusing on Mahmood’s entry into court,
normally a witness will come in through the public entrance,
whereas Mahmood came in through the judge’s door,
where he was behind a screen on the basis that he was at risk
because of the public interest work that he was doing.
And that meant that he had a status that no other witness ever had.
And it just consolidated this feeling that he was something special.
I knew that I was sort of going into battle with someone
who was case-hardened, you know, had no fear,
had no restraints,
was capable of actually saying anything about her or me at any time.
His behaviour towards me was arrogant, combative and dismissive,
like saying your ears are so big you should be able to hear me,
or something like that.
It was definitely peppered with references to Tulisa,
along the lines of, “Look, what you’re asking me did I say this, did I say that?
"Why does that matter? She’s a cocaine dealer
that’s what you should be worried about.” That was his style of giving evidence.
But what Mazher Mahmood didn’t know
is that we had come across a bombshell
and we were waiting to hit him with it.
I was astonished,
on the day before the cross-examination,
Mahmood’s driver, Alan Smith contacted us,
and he said, I want to speak to you.
He told us that Mahmood had told him to change his statement,
and that there’d been emails.
I knew we had hit the jackpot.
I had decided to leave the whole topic
of Alan Smith’s statement until the very end.
Then I asked Mahmood
whether he’d spoken to Alan Smith about his statement,
to which Mahmood responded something like, “I might have done,
what’s it got to do with you?”
Which is an astonishingly inappropriate and disrespectful answer
for a witness to give.
I’d asked Mahmood the same thing at the legal arguments hearing
and Mahmood had said no.
The judge instantaneously intervened
and effectively said to Mahmood, “You lied to me on the legal arguments hearing,
"you told me that you hadn’t spoken to him,
"now you’re saying you might have done, tell the truth!”
From that moment onwards, Mahmood was done for.
In those few seconds, he was wiped out.
The judge then turned to the prosecutor and said, “I’m throwing this out.”
Mahmood, he disintegrated.
This rude, aggressive, dismissive, confrontational,
you know, all-powerful individual, was just reduced
to a quivering wreck and you could see that he was saying to himself,
“It’s over.”
And, you know, Tulisa was ecstatic.
She had genuinely thought it was lost
and she couldn’t believe it.
Tulisa!
This whole case was a horrific and disgusting entrapment
by Mazher Mahmood.
We have now succeeded in exposing the real culprit,
and most importantly, the real liar.
As someone who has had my life ruined for the past year,
I strongly believe that this type of entrapment
should not be allowed to happen to anyone.
I remember being at home and putting the news on,
seeing Tulisa come outside of court.
I remember seeing how pleased she was that the truth was out.
Tulisa walked out of court with her name cleared.
Her priority now to rebuild a battered career.
I was really, really, immensely proud of what she did
and she basically spoke for all of us.
I was so, so happy for her,
but a little part of me did think, wish I could have had that.
My God.
How do you feel?
I’m so happy.
My God,
my God.
I can’t actually believe it’s over. I can’t believe it’s over.
It was incredibly emotional because, as often happens in criminal proceedings,
you know, you’re thrown together with people you don’t know and you suddenly,
you share this experience which once upon a time was irrelevant
to your life, and now is the whole, you know, basis of your life,
so it was very emotional, I felt really pleased for her.
But I was also, you know, incredibly relieved
that it hadn’t gone wrong.
The Sun on Sunday said they are disappointed with this outcome
but do believe the original investigation
was conducted within the bounds of the law and the industry’s code.
The judge ruled there were strong grounds
that the undercover reporter from the Sun on Sunday
had lied and manipulated evidence.
The paper has now suspended the man known as The Fake Sheikh.
It wasn’t long after that that he was charged, which was amazing.
It was about time, you know, he faced some consequences for his actions.
The trial of Mazher Mahmood, the journalist known as the Fake Sheikh,
has opened at the Old Bailey.
He and his former driver, Alan Smith are charged
with perverting the course of justice
in relation to the trial of the singer, Tulisa Contostavlos.
I was very sad
that Maz found himself in the situation he did and ended up on trial.
Has there been any reaction from Mazher Mahmood, Danny?
We have actually had a statement from him, delivered through his lawyers,
in which he says he is deeply disappointed
with the Crown Prosecution Services’ decision.
He denies the offence and will vigorously contest it in court.
I went to the Old Bailey to watch.
I remember him arriving to court.
A couple of big blokes on either side of him.
With his little navy blue anorak, and his hood down over his head.
You know, people shouting at him, and he was getting ushered in,
and I thought, yeah great
because he clearly didn’t like that.
And I thought, now you know how it feels,
Tulisa had the same thing
when she was dragged into court.
When I watched Mazher going into court,
I just felt this was a man whose whole image
was collapsing around him.
The wheel had turned full circle.
When I saw Mazher in court, at the Old Bailey,
he looked a little bit beaten, his shoulders were a bit hunched,
his head was down.
But I still got the feeling
that it was just a cold, emotionless human, standing there.
Mahmood didn’t plead guilty. He tried to evade responsibility.
So, no remorse.
But what does in my view, speak very loudly,
is that he never opened his mouth.
Having run around, seeking to entrap people,
when it came to explaining his own criminal acts,
he had nothing to say, I mean, it’s quite a state of affairs, isn’t it?
Incredible.
Now some breaking news, we’ve got a verdict
in the trial of the so-called Fake Sheikh.
Mazher Mahmood, accused of tampering with evidence
in the collapsed drugs trial of the pop star, Tulisa Contostavlos.
Let’s go to Richard Lister at the Old Bailey.
What is the verdict, Richard?
The verdict, Joanna, is that both Mazher Mahmood
the so-called fake sheikh and his former driver, Alan Smith,
have both been found guilty of conspiring to pervert the course of justice.
Yes! We’ve nailed the bastard.
Mr Mahmood, what would you like to say to Tulisa?
Why did you tamper the evidence? Would you like to apologise for Tulisa?
Are you sorry? What do you say to that?
When the guilty verdict came in,
I did feel a real sense of relief.
Did you lie to get a front-page headline?
What do you say to that? Mr Mahmood what’s your reaction?
I didn’t quite realise until that point
how much that would actually mean to me.
Him getting that guilty, I almost felt like I’d been vindicated.
Mazher Mahmood, the man better known as The Fake Sheikh
is beginning a fifteen-month jail sentence tonight.
The way people turned against him for me was probably the hardest thing.
Mahmood has now been sacked by his employer, News UK,
owned by Rupert Murdoch.
Everyone who built him up to be who he was
let him fall.
For him, having to lose the status,
the reputation,
must have been very, very difficult.
In an instant,
you know, it was gone.
He would hate for that to be what he’s remembered for most.
Is going to prison.
That’s the killer, the absolute killer for him
because it wipes away Journalist of the Year,
Scoop of the Year you know, it wipes away all of those awards.
And it’s a shame
because there was good stuff that he did.
So much top-notch journalism
is forgotten
because of what happened at the end of his career.
I wondered, if he’d been more closely supervised
all the way through his career,
whether it would have happened?
Maybe Maz was failed to some extent.
Mazher Mahmood, for me, during his 30-year career,
masqueraded as a good guy,
when in fact he was just an evil, evil, life-wrecker, career-wrecker.
He just didn’t care. He would do whatever he had to do
to get the story, and that’s not journalism.
He used to go out doing a story
intending it to be the front page.
The end justifies the means.
And that should be his motto.
Even if it means destroying, or attempting to destroy someone’s life,
like Tulisa.
He has no sense of guilt, no conscience,
no morality.
When he was released from prison,
he disappeared.
There’s enormous interest to find out where he is and what he’s doing.
And to expose him.
But nobody knows where he is.
He’s clever.
He’s clever. He would survive.
There was some rumour that he was freelancing under another name.
Working at another newspaper.
But nobody really knows.
Again, clouded in secrecy.
And that, probably, is where he feels most comfortable.
Are you very fond of your Fake Sheikh robes?
I am yeah, I've had a lot of fun with it.
And all the trappings of the Sheikh, it's such a polished performance.
You get away with it.
You use that phrase, we get away with it.
Do you ever feel a little bit uncomfortable in your own skin
- that this is the way you operate? - Not at all.
I'm proud of what I do, I wouldn't do it otherwise.
Mazher Mahmood, thanks very much indeed.
Pleasure.
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