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Mohamed Al Fayed does an Ozzy Osbourne

last updated Wednesday 02nd March 2005, 8:48 AM
Fulham Chairman and Owner Mohamed Al Fayed
Fulham Chairman and Owner
Mohamed Al Fayed

Mohamed Al Fayed and Ozzy Osbourne might appear unlikely bedfellows, but the controversial billionaire has taken his lead from the ageing rocker by agreeing to appear in a fly-on-the-wall documentary in an effort to show another side to the public.

He also follows Osbourne's lead in the language he uses in the Channel 4 show, launching ferocious attacks on long-standing enemies including Prince Philip, who he calls a "Nazi German b******", and the disgraced Tory MP Neil Hamilton.

You're Fayed, presented by actor Keith Allen, a life long Fulham fan, is to be screened this month after being delayed by lawyers. Even in the final cleared version, Mr Fayed does not hold back, resuming his attack on the royal family, who he blames for the death of his son Dodi and Princess Diana in 1997.

Mr Fayed also hits out at Tony Blair, saying that he would not employ the prime minister or his deputy, John Prescott, as doormen at his Knightsbridge store.

"The biggest mistake in history is Tony Blair taking the serious decision to join America in the war ... we have a bloody stupid prime minister," he says.

In a sympathetic if irreverent portrait, Allen follows Mr Fayed, who is chairman of the club, on a walkabout in Harrods and a trip to his castle in Scotland. Mr Fayed also invites the cameras into the Paris and London flats of his late son, which have been preserved in aspic since Dodi's death in August 1997.

Magazines from that year are on the coffee table and pictures of Diana on the walls.

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