Background
Mazher Mahmood was born in Small Heath, Birmingham on 22 March 1963, the second of two sons of Sultan and Shamim Mahmood, journalists from Pakistan who came to Britain three years earlier.
Mahmood's only face-to-face televised interview was in 2008 with the BBC's Emily Maitlis on the Andrew Marr Show.
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