Dubbed "The King of the Sting" or "The Fake Sheikh", Mazher Mahmood was a journalist who posed as a Middle-Eastern prince and exposed the rich and famous.

But it turned out that his methods and fact-checking weren't always as honest as he claimed...

The Sarah Ferguson Sting
Who was Mazher Mahmood?
CAUGHT! Match-fixer pockets £150k as he rigs the England Test at Lord’s
The story to kidnap Victoria Beckham
Criticism of Mahmood’s methods
The Tulisa Contostavlos cocaine expose
Legacy of Mazher Mahmood

Full interactive transcript, subtitles and key vocabulary available on the website: https://www.leonardoenglish.com/podcasts/fake-sheikh

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#374 | The Rise And Fall of “The Fake Sheikh”