Susanna Reid appeared stunned as they discussed Sir Mo Farah's personal revelation on Good Morning Britain. The athlete made the shock revelation that he was brought into the UK illegally under the name of another child.
Sir Mo, a four-time Olympic gold-medal winner who has also won six world titles and the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award, says his own children have motivated him to tell the truth and has done so in a new documentary, The Real Mo Farah, which airs on the BBC on Wednesday (July 13).
He previously claimed he had been born in Mogadishu, Somalia, and spent most of his early life in Djibouti. He said he had come to London when he was eight to join his father, speaking barely any English – a story he has now revealed to be untrue. In fact, Sir Mo's father was killed during the civil war in Somalia when he was four and he travelled to the UK with a woman he did not know.
