The Fake Sheikh | From Robes to Riches | 1

British Scandal

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Scandal, Alice Levine, Great Britain, Society & Culture, Exhibit C, British, England, History, Matt Forde, Documentary

4.5 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Actress, comedian and podcaster Emily Lloyd-Saini joins Alice Levine on a journey to London’s Fleet Street. It's the 1980s and young Mazher Mahmood manages to bag a job at one of the UK's biggest newspapers. He has a talent for breaking stories, but he soon realises it’ll take more than good journalism to make his mark. In fact, it might not take much of that at all. He hits on the idea of becoming a Fake Sheikh - and a tabloid star is born.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to another series of Terribly Famous.
0:03.4	No, no, no, no, no. Oh, you did it again.
0:06.0	I did what sorry?
0:06.9	Sorry you said the name of Yorkshire not the name of this show.
0:09.2	Oh, it's a Terribly Famous.
0:10.4	Yeah, you did.
0:11.2	Just just get another guy.
0:11.8	Sorry I meant to say Terribly. Oh, no, no, no,
0:14.1	I'm Emily Lloyd Seine. This is terribly famous. Sorry, you are, I said you could like
0:21.6	plug it once, but it feels like maybe you're like
0:23.2	plugging it like over and over again. I'm saying Terribly famous to it much yeah if you could just
0:27.4	say British scandal and then we'll just get into it and then we'll
0:29.6	also be Terribly famous. I think we've talked about it now. Oh yeah we've probably done that and then we'll just move on from that.
0:34.8	Hi this is terribly famous I'm just gonna do it. This is a British scandal and this episode may
0:41.5	contain some strong language and references to terribly famous. and this
0:44.1	is a
0:45.1	is a strong language.
0:46.1	reference is terribly famous.
0:47.1	The reference is terribly famous.
0:47.0	Saturday 1st of June 2013, Meheki Club, London.
0:57.0	Tilesa Contestablos raises her arms skywards and throws her long dark
1:02.0	ponytail from side to side in time to the music.
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