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Celebrated England long-distance runner and winner of four Olympic gold medals in 5,000m and 10,000m events, Mo Farah has revealed he was smuggled into the United Kingdom as a kid and his real name was Hussein.

The 39-year-old, winner of both the 5,000m and 10,000m events at the 2012 London Olympics and Rio Games, was trafficked from war-torn Somalia into the UK under another child's name after his father was killed in his home country.

The champion runner has also revealed that he worked as domestic help for the family of "the woman who brought him to Britain".

While all along the world knew that Mo Farah arrived in Britain as an eight-year-old and stayed with his uncle and aunt, the star athlete's revelations in a BBC documentary 'The Real Mo Farah', which will be aired on Wednesday, have come as a shock.

Mo Farah says when he arrived in the UK he only knew three English phrases -- 'Excuse me’, 'Where is the toilet?' and 'C'mon then'.

The athlete also revealed the names of his biological parents were, Abdi and Aisha.

Mo Farah's father died in 1987 in the war when he was just four and he was separated from his mother and sent to Djibouti to live with relatives.

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In 1993, he was smuggled into the UK as an illegal immigrant "under a false passport bearing his new identity 'Mo Farah'.