Tuesday, February 6, 2007

About Faria Alam



Background
Faria Alam, (born 3 September 1966 in Bangladesh, then East Pakistan) was a Football Association secretary who had an affair with former England national football team manager Sven-Göran Eriksson and FA chief executive Mark Palios, leading to Palios's resignation. She stated on Celebrity Big Brother that she is of Bengali and Pakistani descent with some Persian blood.Some of ancestors were sufi missionaries from Persia.

Education
Alam studied computer science at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.




Celebrity Big Brother 2006
In January 2006, Alam appeared on Celebrity Big Brother in the UK. During her time on Big Brother she was perceived to have flirted with former NBA star Dennis Rodman. On 17 January 2006, while up for the public vote, she commented that the British public would "never let a black or Asian win" the show on the basis that the British establishment and/or media would not permit it. On 18 January 2006, she became the second housemate to be evicted. Ironically, the winner of the following series of Celebrity Big Brother was Shilpa Shetty, an Indian film star, with the runner up being Jermaine Jackson of the jackson 5 who is african american and muslim . (See Celebrity Big Brother 2007 (UK) for more information)



More scandal
On 4 February 2007 she was exposed as a high class prostitute who charged £8,000 a night by a tabloid newspaper.

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