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London (pte016/02.03.2005/10:15) - Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed has agreed to appear in a fly-on-the-wall documentary in an effort to show another side of himself to the public. As the Media Guardian http://www.mediaguardian.co.uk reports, the controversial billionaire has taken his lead from Ozzy Osbourne with the language that he uses on the Channel 4 show, launching ferocious attacks on long-standing enemies including Prince Philip and the disgraced Conservative MP Neil Hamilton.
"You're Fayed", presented by actor Keith Allen, is set to be screened this month after being delayed by lawyers. Even in the final cleared version, 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. "I challenge the bastards who did this to me. All the time, I say this is definitely by the order of the royal family. And who is the head of the royal family?," he says. "It's Prince Philip," he says at one point, going on to call the Queen's husband a gangster and a Nazi.
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.
Allen, a lifelong Fulham fan, follows Fayed, who is chairman on the club, on a walkabout in Harrods and a trip to his castle in Scotland. 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. In the documentary, the Egyptian owner of Harrods also claims credit for "flushing out" disgraced Conservative Mps Jonathan Aitken and Hamilton.
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