Mahmood: The Hero of Journalism

Mahmood won reporter of the year and for a short while was lauded as some sort of hero uber journalist. Some of the stories that he broke were very real and very big news, but most of them were nothing more than gross cases of entrapment. His shady career came to an end in 2014 when he was working on a story of British pop star, Talisa Constavilos. Mahmood posed instead as a Bollywood movie producer and offered Talisa a fake role starring alongside Leonardo DiCaprio. And like he had done numerous times before, Mahmood asked Talisa to get him £800 worth of cocaine. This is one of those examples of not a good situation